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domestic violence awareness month 2025

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    OCTOBER 2025 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH

    OCTOBER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH ACTIVITIES 

      

      “AWARENESS IS KEY"

      

    OCTOBER 2025 - DVA MONTH

      

    • October 1-10 Travelling DV Awareness Display at Government Plaza
    • October 3 USA Mega Musical Chairs- The Grounds 5p-9p
    • October 4 Penelope’s Closet Parking Lot sale with Shimmy Mob performance 10:30am~ Booth at the Flee Market
    • October 7 Choctaw County DV Awareness Month Proclamation
    • October 8 National Health Cares About Domestic Violence
    • October 9 Mobile County DV Awareness Proclamation
    • October 10 ArtWalk
    • October 11 Rehoboth Missionary Baptist Church Ministries Fair Latin Fest - Mardi Gras Park 2pm-9pm - Reese Funeral Home DV/Breast Cancer Awareness Event 3p-6p
    • October 14-20 Travelling DV Awareness Display at Coastal Community College campus in Thomasville
    • October 14  Dippin’ To End DV- Cammie’s Old Dutch (12pm-9pm) -  City of Mobile & Clarke County DV Awareness Month Proclamations
    • October 18   Woofstock~ Melton Health Fair~ Let’s Think Pink - Creepy Crawly Halloween-USA Archeology Museum
    • October 19-26  Travelling DV Awareness display at Choctaw Hospital in Butler 
    • October 22 DV Awareness Walk- Sage Park 6pm 
    • October 23  National Purple Day (wear purple!)- RSA Buildings lit purple
    • October 25  “Voice for Victims” ride-Chatom- Punishers LEMC Pine Belt - USA Kappa Delta Shamrock event
    • October 27-31  Domestic Violence Awareness Display to Mobile Regional Airport
    • October 28 Mobile County DV Task Force Panel Discussion Dayspring Baptist Church 6pm (2200 Cody Rd)


    *Penelope’s Closet will take $1.00 off any clothing w/purple on Fridays throughout October

    *Contact Penelope House at 251-342-2809, Facebook/ Instagram, or www.penelopehouse.org for event details


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    october is domestic violence awareness month

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      october 2024 - domestic violence awareness month

                              Bringing Domestic Violence Awareness to our Community 2024

      Every year we devote the month of October to Domestic Violence Awareness. We plan and schedule events all over town and wear purple which signifies DV.  While each year has different events, year after year, the message is the same-END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!
      This year we participated in a “Bride’s March” to honor the life of Gladys Ricart and all lives lost to domestic violence.  Ms. Ricart’s tragic story was portrayed in a documentary on A & E, “American Justice-Death of a Bride”.
      As we all know, a picture is worth a thousand words, so adjacent  you will see a picture of a wedding gown, a replica depicting any one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of domestic violence that died at the hands of their abuser.  This picture and the display are difficult to look at but try to imagine what the victim and their family must have experienced.
      Penelope House is the first shelter to open in the State of Alabama in 1979.  It was only the fifth in the entire country.  We shelter, provide domestic violence counselling, educate our community, provide training to various groups including law enforcement and much more! Our mission is to provide safety, protection, and support through the provision of shelter, advocacy, and individual and community education.
      In addition to shelter and safety, we have a community education, prevention education, transitional living, 24-hour crisis line, and a court advocate program.

      CRISIS LINE:  251-342-8994
Answered 24/7-365

      OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MONTH

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