Awareness + Action = Social Change. This is a call for all of us to play an active role in ending domestic violence. This message reflects an intentional integration of awareness and prevention, which NRCDV promotes across its projects and initiatives.
Domestic violence is preventable.
By changing norms, attitudes, behaviors, and policies before harm occurs, we can build communities where all relationships are rooted in respect, equality, and peace. NRCDV promotes an intentional integration of awareness and primary prevention across every project and initiative. Prevention is social‑change work: it targets the attitudes, beliefs, environments, and policies that allow violence to occur and replaces them with those that stop it.
Public awareness campaigns help to educate the public about specific issues. They can bring issues to the forefront of dialogue, alter social consciousness, and encourage people to change their actions. Public awareness campaigns on domestic violence aim to educate community members about the prevalence of abuse, encourage people to take action to promote social change, and alert survivors to the options and resources that are available to them.
Awareness campaigns can be linked with an organization’s activities, span the entire year, or last for several years. They can range in complexity from large budget, national campaigns encouraging a specific segment of the population to get involved in domestic violence prevention, to small budget campaigns that highlight a local hotline number.
Whatever the campaign, it may be helpful to join forces with other anti-violence advocates, allied movements, and community-based organizations in order to reach more people and have a greater impact on public opinion.
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Whatever happened to us, it happened, and we are who we are because of it, not in spite of it. This youth-led campaign invites us to normalize and destigmatize experiences of trauma and adversity, and explore the ways we grow from these experiences towards resilience and healing. Together, we can embrace, value, and celebrate our survivorship. […]
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NRCDV does not provide direct services (for example: shelter, legal advocacy, counseling, etc.). We support organizations who directly serve victims and survivors of domestic violence.
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