Take Action for Domestic Violence Action Month!
Welcome to our 2024 Domestic Violence Action Month Guide! This year, we’re asking you to do three things to make a difference in your community! Below you’ll find resources you can use to engage and take action to build safe communities where we all can thrive!
Know what to do: Learn how you can help someone in your life with our Friends and Family Guide
Do you know how to support someone who is experiencing domestic violence? Survivors tell us that what matters most is having someone in their life who is there for them without judgment. You can be the person they bounce ideas off, get support from, and lean on when things are tough. If someone in your life is having a hard time in their relationship, you can be a lifeline.
Check out our Friends and Family Guide to learn more. Also available en espanol.
Join the conversation and learn at DVAM webinars and events!
Register for a Domestic Violence Action & Awareness Month webinar or event to learn from advocates, survivors, and community organizers about ways we can all show up for survivors and our communities.
- October 1: Tillie Black Bear Women Are Sacred Day and 10-Year Memorial Event (National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center)
- October 1-2: Serving and Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth Survivors (National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence)
- October 8: Coming Out and Going Out (National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence)
- October 9: Unpacking the Toolbox of Prevention: Strategies for Community Level Prevention Work
- October 15: Building Partnerships Between Coalitions and LGBTQIA2S+ (National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence)
- October 15: Tillie Black Bear: A Legacy of Resistance That Lives On” Documentary Screening (National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
- October 17: Purple Thursday! Wear purple for DVAM
- October 22: Measuring Rainbows: Ethical and Trauma Informed research in the LGBTQ+ Community (National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence)
Share about DVAM with your community!
YOU are one of the biggest influences in your friends’ and family’s lives! When you talk about healthy relationships and domestic violence, you are helping to normalize these conversations and you’re opening a doorway for others to talk about these issues too. There is lots you can do this DVAM to stay connected and share with community.
- Learn about how to support a friend or family member who might be struggling with domestic violence and talk to people about what you’ve learned.
- Take a walk, plan a coffee date, attend an event, or FaceTime with a friend and check in about relationships. Remind your friends that you care about them and that they deserve to be happy in their relationships.
- Make sure you know where to go for help if you or someone you know needs support for domestic violence. Access our directory of domestic violence programs, or contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (voice), thehotline.org (chat), or by texting START to 88788.
- Don’t forget teens and young adults! Love Is Respect is a great resource, with a hotline, online chat, and text available for support.
- Share info on social media!
- Tag us @wscadv and use these hashtags: #DVAM #DVAM2024 #DomesticViolenceActionMonth #WeAreWSCADV to share YOUR message.
- Share about why DVAM is important to you, where someone can go for help, a link to the Friends and Family Guide, or tips on how other people can take action!
- Share our posts! We’ll be posting for DVAM throughout the month on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Share a post, tag a friend, or leave a comment!
