National Breast Cancer Awareness Month!!!

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month so show your support by purchasing itmes that have the pink ribbon. You may also show your support by displaying a pink ribbon.

National Call of Unity 2011

On 10/4/11 this free national call, we'll hear from survivors, advocates, national experts, and government officials working to end domestic and sexual violence. Together, we'll share in a collective moment of silence for all the women, children, and men who have lost their lives to intimate partner violence and we'll hear a dramatic recitation from nationally renowned spoken word artists Sunni and Asia Rainey.

Register for this event ASAP!!!










Source: National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

The Purple Ribbon Initiative

Display a purple ribbon to raise awareness about domestic violence. Ribbons are symbolic to show support to stop violence and to initiate awareness. Click here to download display cards!!!






















Source: The Domestic Violence Awareness Campaign

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month!!!

What is Domestic Violence???

Domestic violence is best understood as a pattern of abusive behaviors -- including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks as well as economic coercion -- used by one intimate partner against another (adult or adolescent) to gain, maintain, or regain power and control in the relationship. Batterers use of a range of tactics to frighten, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, often injure, and sometimes kill a current or former intimate partner...

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Source: The Domestic Violence Awareness Project