October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM), and we’re sharing events and resources to help you get involved. Whether you are looking for help and support for yourself, or you’re looking to support someone you know, remember that the Advocacy Center is always available at our 24/7 hotline, 607-277-5000.
Calendar of Events:
Check out our month of events for community members and professionals.
Click here to view this calendar as a PDF with working hyperlinks.
Social Media Square to Share:
We encourage you to download the following graphic and share it on your social media pages to show your support for survivors of domestic violence. You can right click on the image below and select, “Save Image As,” to download to your files, or you can go here to download via Google Drive. If you choose to share this on your social media, please tag us at @advocacytc on Instagram and Facebook.
Resources:
Books are a way to better understand our own lives, as well as other people’s experiences. Did you know that we have a reading list for teens about family domestic violence? The books, selected by Advocacy Center teen interns, have themes of parental domestic violence and include a range of genres, families, and intensity. Take a look and see if you’ve read any of them!
Also, please keep in mind that our Youth Educator teaches programs on boundaries; healthy-unhealthy-abusive relationship behaviors; sexualized media and violence; and sexual abuse; email info@actompkins.org for more info.
Other resources:
- New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence: https://www.nyscadv.org/find-help/about-domestic-violence.html
- National Network to End Domestic Violence: https://nnedv.org/about-dv/what-is-dv/
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/
- One Love: https://www.joinonelove.org/relationships-101/
- Love Is Respect: https://www.loveisrespect.org/dating-basics-for-healthy-relationships/warning-signs-of-abuse/
- Domestic Violence and the Workplace Model Policy and Toolkit, from Cornell Law School: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/experiential-learning/clinical-program/gender-justice-clinic/domestic-violence-and-the-workplace-model-policy-and-toolkit/