Individual Action

• Give time or money to a local shelter.
• Ask your doctor to talk to patients about domestic violence.
• Call your local domestic violence agency to learn the warning signs of abuse and how to support a friend.
• Ask businesses, your place of worship, and community centers to put brochures with domestic violence resources in private places, such as women's restrooms.
• Learn about domestic violence: call 206-205-5555 or visit www.kccadv.org or www.metrokc.gov/dvinfo/ to find out about resources in King County.
• Collect school supplies, food, diapers, or other items for a local shelter. Call the shelter first to find out what they need.
• Spread the word that domestic violence is not okay. Challenge behavior and language that encourages violence.
• Teach your children to be nonviolent; read them books and buy them toys that support gender equality and nonviolence.
• Call the police if you hear screaming or violence from a neighboring apartment or house.
• Call your local agency for support and information if you have concerns about a current or former relationship.

Neighborhood

• Invite someone from a local domestic violence agency to speak to your community group.
• Get to know your neighbors and your children's friends. Offer kindness and support to those hurt by domestic violence.
• Ask your girls and boys clubs, including scout troops, to discuss domestic and dating violence.
• Plant purple flowers in your garden or at your P-patch with a sign that says "Stop Domestic Violence."
• Wear T-shirts or buttons that advocate for nonviolence.
• Hang posters and display brochures about domestic violence at businesses in your neighborhood. Love Shouldn't Hurt brochures and posters are available from KCCADV.
• Choose books about domestic violence for your book club. Contact your local library for a domestic violence reading list.
• Sponsor a family through your local shelter, giving food and personal care items to women and families.

Faith Action

• Call the national religious Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence at 206-634-1903 or visit www.cpsdv.org for ideas you can use in your church, synagogue, mosque, or temple.
• Request that films and books such as Keeping the Faith are available for your members. (Call the Center at 206-634-1903 for them.)
• Use information from your local domestic violence agency in sermons, bulletins, services, and newsletters for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October.
• Recognize Domestic Violence Awareness Month at your company-call your local agency for ideas about how your company can partner with them.
• Support training on domestic violence for all clergy, hospital chaplains, and seminary students.
• Offer a meeting space to a local agency for educational meetings or support groups.
• Encourage your faith organization-at both local and national levels-to address domestic violence so that all victims will be safe when confiding in their religious leaders.

Legislative Action

• Encourage your legislators to support laws that address domestic violence. (Call KCCADV at 206-568-5454 to learn about current local, state, and national issues.)
• Advocate for a fair and effective criminal justice response in your community. Call KCCADV at 206-568-5454 to find out how to get involved.
• Encourage your city and county councilmembers to support policies that benefit victims of domestic violence, hold abusers accountable, and teach people about domestic violence.
• Vote for judges whose records show that they are are sensitive to victims and take domestic violence seriously.
• Support federal legislation that strengthens domestic violence laws and provides funding for victim services.

School Action

• Challenge behavior that encourages stereotypes and violence-for example, sexism, racism, and homophobia.
• Work with your PTSA to establish effective policies dealing with domestic and dating violence incidents in school.
• Request that speakers on domestic violence talk to classes in your school.
• Display books and materials on teen dating violence in the library and counseling center.
• Display the Silent Witness exhibit in a class about legal issues. Call EDVP at 425-562-8840 to reserve the exhibit.
• Participate in a peer education program or support group; ask your school counselor to work with a local domestic violence agency to start a group in your school.
• Encourage campus security to have a domestic violence protocol.
• Organize students to collect books, toys, or school supplies for children staying at local domestic violence shelters. Call your local shelters to find out what they need.
• Display domestic violence brochures at your school's resource center and at evening events (parents' nights, sports events, etc.)