Every Purple Thursday, the Day One community wears purple to raise awareness about domestic violence & show support for survivors. We'd love for you to join us tomorrow, October 15! 💜
📸 Wear purple, snap a photo & tag @DayOneNY with #PurpleThursday!

Every Purple Thursday, the Day One community wears purple to raise awareness about domestic violence & show support for survivors. We'd love for you to join us tomorrow, October 15! 💜
📸 Wear purple, snap a photo & tag @DayOneNY with #PurpleThursday!
Why don't they just leave?” Leaving can bring financial hardship, isolation, threats, and serious safety risks.
Staying isn't consent to abuse. Returning isn't failure.
Replace judgment with support. You don't have to be ready to leave to ask for help.
#DVAM #SurvivorSupport #CoerciveControl
Raise awareness and support survivors of domestic violence at the North Brooklyn Coalition Against Domestic Violence's annual domestic violence vigil. We'll gather in light to free North Brooklyn of family and domestic violence 💜🕯️
We all have a role in helping raise awareness about domestic violence.
Learn what you can do to create a safe and healthy community at the Fairfax County Domestic and Sexual Violence Services 24-Hour Hotline 703-360-7273. https://bit.ly/3dtJlz9 #DVAM #UntilEveryoneIsSafe
Sharing new research findings from our team in our latest Trauma Research Notes post. #DVAM #every90seconds
Take a mindful moment today—coloring can ease stress for all ages, and it’s a fun way for our youngest advocates to get involved. Print our DVAM coloring page, add your creativity, and help spread hope: https://loom.ly/rcfXyIs
“You both just need to communicate better”
But what if the problem isn't simply communication?
**High conflict ≠ coercive control**
Look at the behavior
Look at the pattern
Look at the impact
💜 Patterns beat incidents
Hindsight is 20/20 for a reason. 💭 You can't always see it while you're in it, and that's not your fault. Healing is learning to give yourself that grace. 💜 #DVAM #DomesticViolenceAwareness #Unbroken
Let's make it PURPLE this October with Purple Light Nights! 💜
#DVAM #PurpleLightNight
Don’t forget to wear purple this Thursday! 💜 #DVAM #PurpleThursday #Every1KnowsSome1
💜 SPOTTED: Purple flags representing the 1,780 helpline calls DVSSP answered last year! Thank you to The Way Community Center of Greene County for this visual display.
Always a great day when I get to share research alongside Dr. Kim Gorgens. Thanks to the Colorado Elder and Family Justice Summit for the chance to report new findings on brain injuries and intimate partner abuse; and to the service providers working to build a better world. #every90seconds #DVAM
🚩 Control can look like love—until saying no comes with punishment.
Sexual pressure, reproductive coercion, and threats aren't devotion. Consent means choosing freely, without fear.
You deserve love without surrendering autonomy.
#Consent #CoerciveControl #SexEd #HealthyRelationships #DVAM
Share a stat. These numbers remind us that domestic violence is more common than many realize—and why awareness and action are so important. 💜
Please join us on Wednesday, Oct. 21 for our virtual event; “Sharing Our Strength: Perspectives on Domestic Violence from Students and Survivors.”
You can register for the free event here: tinyurl.com/59n9rdwb
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Let's break the silence, support survivors, and spread hope. Everyone deserves to feel safe and valued. 💜 #DVAM
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Every report of violence at home leaves a second question: who else was in the house?
Kids learn what they live.
Help: 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788.
💜 Wear purple. Raise awareness. Stand against domestic violence. Join us October 15 to Turn the Campus Purple.
"Violent partners... know gender-based violence fosters and thrives on silence, self-doubt, and fear—factors that seem to amplify when sexual and domestic violence are intertwined"