What you can do to End Violence Against Women in Your Community

 • Call the police when you see or hear someone being assaulted. You could be saving someone´s life.
• Call your local domestic violence agency and offer to volunteer (in shelters, on hotlines, in court, or with children´s programs, on committees, fundraising and outreach) or make a donation.
• Educate yourself about violence against women as a human rights issue. Understand violence from a broader, socio-political perspective, and its connection to other forms of oppression such as racism, heterosexism, and classism.
• Invite Women Helping Battered Women to your class, civic group, workplace or faith community. We offer a range of workshops (for all ages) that can be tailored to your group´s needs.
• Dedicate two hours each month to writing letters to the editor, political officials, police chiefs, prosecutors, judges, and public defenders about violence issues.
• Encourage your local school to teach gender equity and violence prevention.
• Supervise what your children watch on TV and at the movies.
• Advocate for non-violent shows.
• Purge your speech of violent images ("I am going to kill you").
• Don´t participate in sexist jokes.
• Don´t blame the victim. Ask why he batters, not why she stays.
• During political campaigns, ask the candidate what specific actions they will take to end violence against women.
• Offer support to victims of domestic violence by telling them: "No one deserves to be abused." Stress her positive attributes and her strengths.
• Take domestic violence seriously.