Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October 2026
Event times are shown in Pacific time.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month, observed each October across the United States, centers survivors and builds shared understanding of how we can prevent abuse and support the people it affects.
Futures Without Violence, the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, PBS Hawaiʻi, the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, CBC News in Canada, and Women’s Aid in Ireland are offering free webinars, recorded presentations, a podcast episode, and a public television program for advocates, community members, and survivors.
Futures Without Violence
Futures Without Violence has spent nearly four decades building safer, healthier communities through programs on violence prevention, health access, and economic opportunity. It partners with schools, employers, health care providers, and advocates across the country.
Virtual Events & Meetings
Know Your Rights: Employment Rights for Survivors
This webinar looks at employment discrimination that survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking can face, and the specific protections available to them. It is designed for anti-violence professionals, workforce development staff, and educators.
Time: Wednesday, 2:00 PM PST
Date(s): Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Format: Virtual
Platform: Zoom — https://futureswithoutviolence.zoom.us/meeting/register/TDquM0mFQd2Mku5sf_ILsA · https://vawnet.org/events/know-your-rights-accessing-power-and-protections-employment-rights-survivors
Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) supports domestic violence programs and advocates across Indiana through training, resources, and statewide advocacy.
Virtual Events & Meetings
The Role Grassroots Supports Can Play in Helping Survivors
Part of ICADV’s work on survivor-led support strategies, this free webinar recognizes the grassroots community responses that existed long before formal organizations and shares what advocates can learn from them.
Time: Thursday, 9:00 AM PST
Date(s): Thursday, October 8, 2026
Format: Virtual
Platform: Webinar — https://icadvinc.coalitionmanager.org/eventmanager/trainingevent/details/132 · https://vawnet.org/events/role-grassroots-supports-can-play-helping-survivors
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) is a tribal nonprofit dedicated to ending violence against Native women, offering technical assistance, training, resources, and policy advocacy to American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
On-Demand Resources
Domestic Violence and Disabilities
Type: Recorded Webinar
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
This presentation explores how women with disabilities face added risks of violence and abuse in American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and how services can be accessible and welcoming for survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors.
Access: https://www.niwrc.org/resources/webinars/domestic-violence-and-disabilities
Responding to Housing Insecurity/Homelessness Issues for Indigenous Elders who are Victims of Domestic Violence
Type: Recorded Webinar
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
Presenters discuss elder homelessness in Native communities and how tribal housing authorities, homeless services, and aging programs can work together on culturally grounded, affordable housing for elders.
Understanding the Dynamics and Tactics of Intimate Partner Violence through the Lens of Indigenous Survivors
Type: Recorded Webinar
Duration: Approximately 1 hour
This session helps advocates better support Indigenous survivors by examining the dynamics of intimate partner violence and showing how traditional and cultural practices strengthen advocacy.
PBS Hawaiʻi
PBS Hawaiʻi is Hawaiʻi’s public television station, producing local programs such as the series Insights.
On-Demand Resources
Insights on PBS Hawaiʻi: Domestic Violence (March 12, 2020)
Type: Video
Duration: 56 minutes, 45 seconds
This episode explores how common domestic violence is and how it can be prevented. It streams free on pbs.org and the PBS app without a login.
Access: https://www.pbs.org/video/domestic-violence-tokm8t/
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (WSCADV) is a statewide coalition that supports advocates and programs working to end domestic and sexual violence in Washington.
Virtual Events & Meetings
DVAM 2026: Creating a Shared Vision of Well-Being
This interactive workshop explores ways to talk about domestic and sexual violence prevention that are accessible and community-focused, building shared language, community buy-in, and a clear picture of what is possible when communities come together.
Time: Tuesday, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PST
Date(s): Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Format: Virtual
Platform: Webinar — https://wscadv.coalitionmanager.org/eventmanager/trainingevent/details/387 · https://wscadv.org/events/dvam-2026-creating-a-shared-vision-of-well-being-creating-buy-in-and-mobilization-around-prevention/
CBC News
CBC News is the news service of Canada’s public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and produces the Front Burner podcast.
On-Demand Resources
The Reality of Intimate-Partner Violence in Rural Canada
Type: Podcast Episode
Duration: 24 minutes
This Front Burner episode looks at a coroner’s inquest in Renfrew County, Ontario, and what the case reveals about intimate partner violence in rural, remote, and northern communities, with advocates and experts discussing prevention.
Women’s Aid (Ireland)
Women’s Aid is a registered charity in Ireland that brings national and international domestic violence experts and practitioners together through events and webinars to increase understanding of domestic abuse.
On-Demand Resources
Women’s Aid Recorded Webinar Library
Type: Recorded Webinars (9 recordings)
Duration: Approximately 1 hour each
Free recordings from 2020 to 2024 include report launches and webinars on topics such as domestic abuse and pregnancy and addressing domestic violence as a workplace issue.
Access: https://www.womensaid.ie/get-informed/news-events/webinars/
General & Cross-Cutting Resources
Crisis & Immediate Support
National Domestic Violence Hotline — https://www.thehotline.org · Available 24/7 by phone at 1-800-799-7233, by text (send START to 88788), and by live chat, with Spanish-language support.
Observance Directories & Awareness Hubs
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, DVAM 2026: With Survivors, Always — https://www.dvawareness.org/WithSurvivors · Campaign materials in English and Spanish, including flyers, talking points, and Zoom virtual backgrounds.
National Network to End Domestic Violence, #Every1KnowsSome1 — https://nnedv.org/latest_update/nnedv-marks-domestic-violence-awareness-month-2026-with-every1knowssome1-campaign/ · Purple Thursday on October 15 and a Day of Giving on October 22.
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