What is Your Promise?
By Rebecca Lynn
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). According to the Domestic Violence Awareness Project, the concept started in October 1981,...
What Survivors Want Everyone to Know About Domestic Violence Awareness Month
By Jenn Rockefeller
It’s been said that you don’t know what someone goes through unless you’ve been through it too. With that said,...
What Domestic Violence Awareness Month Means to Survivors
By Jenn Rockefeller
Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) was born out of an idea in the early 1980s that would unite advocates across...
Survivor Story: My Family Sided with My Abuser
Written by: BTSADV Survivor
I married my high school sweetheart. We started dating when I was 16. The very first week, he asked...
How to Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence
Written by: Amy Thompson
Every year during the month of October, Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence runs a campaign dedicated to raising...
Break Your Silence
Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence is commemorating Domestic Violence Awareness Month with the release of the #RawTruthDV, a month-long campaign that...