Launched nationwide in October 1987, Domestic Violence Awareness Month gives the nation a time to connect and unite individuals and organizations working on domestic violence issues while raising awareness for those issues.
The Sheridan VA Health Care System is working to destigmatize not only domestic violence of every form, but to reach the users of domestic violence and work to change how they deal with stressful issues in their lives.
While appearing on Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse program, Sheridan VA Psychologist Katie Card, told listeners that the problems of Intimate Partner Violence are prevalent in the military and the VA is working to change the user’s and break the cycle.
K. Card
To help bring awareness to IPV and domestic abuse, the Sheridan VA Health Care System is taking part in a series of events in October.
On Oct. 8, after the march to end violence with the Advocacy and Resource Center, purple flags will be available to be placed at the courthouse. Individuals will be asked to write the first name of someone and number of days they have been impacted by domestic violence. On Oct. 21, the flags will be picked up and there will be a short discussion onsite at noon on what people can do to create a safer community.
On Oct. 20, a free training conference with experts and survivors from across the country sharing about the impact of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and human trafficking.
The outcome of this conference will be an improvement in the use of provider and community services offered to people impacted by Sexual Assault and IPV, as well as reduction of the identified gaps in the community, and much more.
If interested, community members can sign up for CEU credits or to find more information, click here.
On Oct. 18, free virtual screening for “Who She Is” at 6 p.m. on Microsoft Teams.
Who She Is tells the story of four individual women caught in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) epidemic. By bringing these missing women to life on screen, through animation and first-person storytelling, the documentary aims to humanize the people behind the statistics. Audiences will learn each woman’s loves and losses and will come to know their story. Through these women, the documentary hopes to shine a light on the wider MMIW epidemic and gendered violence in Wyoming and beyond.
Attend: Via Microsoft TEAMS (no software required)
Meeting ID: 227 271 540 869
Passcode: pqE6RA
More Like this
Last modified: October 3, 2022