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Awareness Months

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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

A Banner saying 'Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2025', and 'With Survivors, Always'

 

"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..." ...Read More...

An image from the National Domestic Violence Hotline offering support to those who are experiencing domestic violence. Ways to get help: Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) | Text “START” to 88788 | Chat thehotline.org

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