Every minute, 24 people in the U.S. are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and many organizations and individuals across the U.S. are engaging in discussions on ways we can stop the violence.
What: YWCA Week Without Violence
Where: Communities across the United States
When: Oct. 13-17
How: YWCA will mobilize people in communities across the United Sates to take action against all forms of violence by focusing public discussion around a different aspect of violence each day of the week:
- Monday: Sexual Assault
- Tuesday: Racial Profiling and Hate Crimes
- Wednesday: Domestic Violence
- Thursday: Economic Violence
- Friday: Immigration-related Violence.
They will execute this discussion through a blog carnival and their social media efforts.
A blog carnival is an event in which one blogger or organization, such as YWCA, acts as the host, chooses a topic and then asks other bloggers to write on that specific topic and share their posts. The carnival host then collects all of the blogs by different authors and shares them through one central location or link. YWCA will share blogs here.
YWCA encourages people to participate in their blog carnival by answering the question: How can we come together to #workagainstviolence?
Bloggers can send their posts replying to YWCA’s prompt to Katie Stanton, social media and online engagement manager, at kstanton@ywca.org by Oct. 12. They recommend blog posts run between 300 and 500 words, and include the title, author’s name and a headshot, if possible.
The organization is also asking people to take to Twitter to join in the discussion by adding the hashtag “#workagainstviolence” to their tweets.
For more details, visit YWCA’s website.
The organization: YWCA is a national organization that focuses on empowering women and eliminating racism. The organization works to influence public policy on behalf of women and people of color, and it offers women leadership opportunities, job training, life skills, support groups and shelters for safety and recovery. The YWCA Evanston/North Shore won the Allstate Foundation’s Purple Purse Challenge on Oct. 3 after raising more than $300,000 in support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
