NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence

Thank you to LinkNYC for partnering with us during to share information and resources about gender-based violence and resources for GBV survivors from local community-based providers in neighborhoods across NYC!
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🙋🏽‍♀️👨‍👨‍👦‍👦👴🏽🧑🏽👬‍‍ "16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence," is an annual campaign that runs from November 25 – December 10. During these 16 days, we raise awareness about gender-based violence and available services and resources for survivors.

Join us on DAY 7 tomorrow, Friday, December 1st, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. for our VIRTUAL TRAINING: “Introduction to Domestic and Gender-Based Violence,” where we will discuss:

- How to identify different forms of domestic and gender-based violence.
- How we can support survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.
- How systemic oppression and personal biases can impact our responses to survivors.

Click the link https://bit.ly/3MR81Wo or scan our QR Code to register!" NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence NYC Commission on Gender Equity NYC Mayor's Office of Equity

📢 🏙️ ATTENTION: NYC DV/GBV Organizations and Providers:

ENDGBV and The Passage, a UK-based homelessness organization, are working together to better understand the experiences of trafficking survivors through your perspectives and expertise. Please take this 8 min. RESEARCH SURVEY to help us understand the link between human trafficking and homelessness in NYC.

At the end of the RESEARCH SURVEY is an optional invite to join a 1-hour in-person focus group from January 22 to January 24, 2024. Online interviews may also be possible outside of these dates. Visit our home page at https://on.nyc.gov/36K6nhd to access the survey and learn more.

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🔶👩🏾‍🦱👩🏻👵🏽 In 2020-2021, women in NYC were three times more likely than men to be a victim of an attack by an intimate partner that was reported to the NYPD.

Join the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence from 11/25 to 12/10 to end and prevent GBV. Visit our website, https://on.nyc.gov/3tuyor0, to take action and learn more.

- Help spread the word!
- Support, Listen and Believe Survivors.

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🟠 GO ORANGE DAY is the third day of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, and across New York City, orange lights emanated from City Hall and other NYC landmarks to show support for survivors and raise awareness about ending gender-based violence (GBV). GBV includes intimate partner and family violence, elder abuse, sexual violence, stalking and human trafficking.

HELP IS AVAILABLE:
-Call 311 to be connected to the nearest NYC Family Justice Center (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

-Find resources and support in NYC by searching the City's NYC Hope Resource Directory.

-Call the city's 24-hour Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-621-HOPE (4673) for immediate safety planning, shelter assistance, and other resources.

-Look for LinkNYC kiosks throughout the campaign (11/25 - 12/10) to learn more about services for people who have experienced gender-based violence offered by community-based providers located in your neighborhood.

Visit our website https://on.nyc.gov/3tuyor0 to take action and learn more.

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📣🟠🟧🌇 It’s Go Orange Day! Gender-based violence (GBV) can affect anyone, regardless of age, ethnicity/race, faith, gender identity or expression, immigration status, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. On this day, we wear orange to stand with survivors and show our dedication to ending all forms of GBV everywhere.

Join the 16 Days of Activism Against GBV campaign by visiting the link in our bio to download the toolkit, join an event, and learn more about GBV and the resources available across NYC.

Tonight, watch for NYC buildings and landmarks lit up in orange. Post a photo in support of ending GBV & tag NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence NYC Commission on Gender Equity & NYC Mayor's Office of Equity with the hashtags .

🔆 🍊📣 It’s to end gender-based violence (GBV). Wear orange and post a photo in support of ending GBV & tag NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence NYC Commission on Gender Equity & NYC Mayor's Office of Equity! . Learn more at: https://on.nyc.gov/3tuyor0. City buildings will light up ORANGE to raise awareness about ending GBV.

🟣🌇 This year, Day was October 19th, and several iconic NYC buildings and landmarks lit up in purple lights to show support for survivors of domestic violence and raise awareness about resources and supports in the City.

Thank you, The Durst Organization and Spireworks for helping us spread the message to survivors of NYC that they are not alone. If you’re experiencing domestic violence, call 311 and ask for nearest FJC, or click the link in our bio.

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"On this last day of DVAM 2023, we AFFIRM the following:

THAT EVERYONE deserves to live a life free of domestic violence, and we are dedicated to this mission every day of the year.

TO SURVIVORS - we hear and see you, and you are not alone.

TO THE COMMUNITY of NYC advocates - thank you for your work and partnership.”

In solidarity,

-Cecile Noel, Commissioner
Mayor's Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence

📢 Live Webinar/Zoom Meeting TODAY, October 30th, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm on DV Survivorship and Discrimination in Housing and Employment with ENDGBV and CCHR!

Join The New York City Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) and the Mayor's Office to End Domestic & Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV) for a conversation to understand the ways in which DV survivors experience discrimination in employment and housing, the rights and accommodations provided under NYC law, and the resources and services available to survivors.

Find Zoom Meeting link here: https://on.nyc.gov/3tQBetQ

If you or someone you know needs help:
- Call NYC's 24/7 Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-621-HOPE (4673).
- Call 311 or visit the NYC Family Justice Center (FJC) in your borough (or where you feel safest) to get connected.
- Check the link to the NYC HOPE Directory in our bio for resources and support.

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DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.30.2023

"Dear Survivor,
We're SO proud of you!
You are seen, valued, heard, and believed. URI is here for you always!" ♡
-Tiffany James (CVSP Director) Urban Resource Institute

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.29.23

“The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken.” - bell hooks

☮️ DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.28.23

"I know, and I trust my truth.
I deserve to feel healthy and vibrant."
-Anonymous

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.27.23

"I am not defined by what has happened to me. I’m in control of my own story."

-Anonymous

🧑🏽‍⚕️💜 This was Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEp) Aware Week at our Staten Island FJC where our partners at CHASI held an educational presentation for staff and clients about this safe, accessible HIV prevention medication. They offered referrals, linkages and tips on how to converse about PrEP, and both normalize and destigmatize HIV and sexual health. Community Health Action of Staten Island

🟣 DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.26.23

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

- Angela Davis

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.25.23

“Community is the space where we learn to love ourselves and each other.”

-bell hooks

📣🙌🏽🙋🏽‍♀️Join ENDGBV for a Facebook Live Spanish DVAM information presentation with La Colmena TODAY at 4:00 pm. This presentation will discuss IPV, immigrant workers and strengthening relationships between service providers in the field. lacolmenanyc

📣⚖️ 🙋🏽‍♀️ Please join us today at 1:00 pm for an IG Live Roundtable Discussion by Safe Horizon with Manhattan District Attorney's Office District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr., NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence Commissioner Cecile Noel, and others on the upcoming United States vs. Rahimi SCOTUS case, and what it means for survivors. Don't miss this important live-streamed conversation!

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.24.23

“I trust myself, and I'm capable of building the life I want.”

-Anonymous

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.23.2023

“You are capable of manifesting peace and stability.”
-SM

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10-22-23

“I listen to my own authority about what is acceptable and true.”

-Susanne Reisenbichler at Conscious Connection

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.21.2023

"To those who have perpetuated abuse in the past and wish to stop, you are capable of making that change."

-Anonymous

For support and to learn about the "Respect and Responsibility Initiative," from our partners, URI, RISE Project and STEPS to End Family Violence, please visit “Current Initiatives," link here: https://www.nyc.gov/site/ocdv/programs/initiatives.page.

💟 🤲🏽 For NYC Go Purple Day, our staff at the Bronx Family Justice Center was in purple to stand with and uplift survivors of domestic violence. This was a day of action to raise awareness as an ENDGBV staffer gave out resources in Corona, Queens about the services available for survivors at NYC FJC’s.

If you or someone you know needs help:
- Call NYC's 24/7 Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-621-HOPE (4673).
- Call 311 or visit the NYC Family Justice Center (FJC) in your borough (or where you feel safest) to get connected.
- Check the link to the NYC HOPE Directory in our bio for resources and support.

💜🤲🏼🌆 DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.20.23

“Everywhere we learn that love is important, and yet we are bombarded by its failure... This bleak picture in no way alters the nature of our longing. We still hope that love will prevail. We still believe in love’s promise.” -Quote by bell hooks

🙌🏽💜🌇🙋🏽‍♀️Today is Day! From our Staten Island Family Justice Center (FJC) where we decorated with words of affirmation along with the Richmond County DA, to our Queens FJC, to our VOICES Members sharing resources at the Queens Center Mall, to our Manhattan FJC, to the ENDGBV Headquarters—WE WERE UNITED IN PURPLE all over the city raising awareness and uplifting survivors of domestic violence.

GO PURPLE TONIGHT-- ⭐🌃 When you see an NYC landmark lit up in purple, snap a picture & post it on social media with the hashtags

If you or someone you know needs help:
- Call NYC's 24/7 Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-621-HOPE (4673).
- Call 311 or visit the NYC Family Justice Center (FJC) in your borough (or where you feel safest) to get connected.
- Visit: on.nyc.gov/32fWruY NYC HOPE DIRECTORY for resources/support.

🟣 DVAM Daily Affirmation, 10.19.23 🟣

“Men, your experiences as survivors matter.”

-Anonymous

🟣🌆🌙 TONIGHT! WE ARE LIGHTING UP local buildings & landmarks in PURPLE to RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE! ⭐🌃 If you see an NYC landmark lit up in purple, snap a picture & post it on social media with the hashtags

☀️📣🙋🏽‍♀️ It’s NYC GO PURPLE DAY! Rise, shine and WEAR PURPLE TODAY to raise awareness about domestic violence and stand in solidarity with survivors! Stand with us!

Look for NYC landmarks lit up in PURPLE. Share photos & post to social media with hashtags:

🟣We are raising AWARENESS about the prevalence of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and the services and support available to survivors!

🟣GET HELP: Call 311 to ask for your nearest Family Justice Center (FJC), or visit M-F, 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Visit https://on.nyc.gov/3YI8xKz

💜 DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.18.2023

“Love yourself, find your voice, you can do it. Find strength in yourself to love yourself and get out.” -Anonymous

🙋🏽‍♀️📣💜 Thursday, October 19th, is NYC GO PURPLE DAY! Please stand with us! Wear the color PURPLE. Look for NYC landmarks lit up in PURPLE. Share photos & post to social media with hashtags: .

We are raising AWARENESS about the prevalence of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and the services and support available to survivors!

🟣 Do you know the history of "GO PURPLE DAY?" The movement to raise awareness about DV and stand with all survivors of DV is not new. Wear purple and LEARN MORE in this post.

GET HELP: Call 311 to ask for your nearest Family Justice Center (FJC), or visit M-F, 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Visit https://on.nyc.gov/3YI8xKz

🟣 DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.17.23

“Even though my abuser tried to make me feel small, I am just the opposite. I am strong, I am capable, and I am deserving of love and happiness. I will have a big and happy life.”

-Anonymous

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.16.23

“We all stand together in hope!”

-Jessica Roman-Torres
NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.15.23

“You deserve time and space to process how you choose. The kindness you give to others is a gift you can give yourself.”

-Anonymous

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.14.23

“You are not behind in your healing. You are gradually growing every day, relentlessly, organically.”

-Cole

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.13.2023

“Your future is created from your perspective of today.”

-Abraham Hicks

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.12.2023

“I focus on what's going right for me. I am the highest version of myself right now.”

-Susanne Reisenbichler https://on.nyc.gov/46GOfUS

DVAM Daily Affirmation 10.10.2023

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” - June Jordan