Get Involved: Purple Light Nights®

Raising Awareness. Supporting Survivors. Inspiring Action.

Our Mission:

  • Honor those who lost their lives for domestic abuse.
  • Support the survivors.
  • Give Hope to those still living with abuse.

Join neighborhoods and cities around the globe each year during October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month and participate in Purple Light Nights®.

Examples include, but aren't limited to:

 

  • Individually: Wear a purple shirt/ribbon/button or add a purple porch light to your home for the month.
  • Small Group: Coordinate a friendly, small, neighborhood walk wearing purple one evening.
  • Larger Group: Develop a community walk with your City with a safe, and approved, walking route.
  • City: Collaborate with your City/commissions/groups to coordinate an event, decorate trees around town, host a 'tree lighting'.

The following templates may be downloaded and edited to reflect your organization’s specific information. Please make sure to maintain the integrity of the Purple Light Nights® name and logo on all documents signifying the Federal trademark and do not alter it. The logo and name are approved Federal trademarks of the Covington Domestic Violence Task Force used to promote domestic violence awareness.  Note that the size and font may be altered as needed. Purple Light Nights® would also request that you acknowledge our work as the creators of this campaign in your marketing. The purpose is to unify the campaign in order to be recognizable everywhere.

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Promoting in Your Community

Your best supporters often come from local service groups.  Contact them to ask to give a brief presentation. Print flyers and posters advertising your Purple Light Nights® event idea and asking them to collaborate. Utilize the free downloadable templates.

  • Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce, and Other Service Groups.
  • Religious groups/organizations, youth groups, women's groups, other.
  • Homeowners Associations (HOA) - to promote a neighborhood walk or purple porch lights.
  • Local businesses and Chamber of Commerce.
  • Medical Groups - have a mini display in their lobby with handouts about local DV resources.
  • Social media, radio, newspaper, elected officials...

Remembering Those Who Lost Their Lives to DV

You can shine a light ALL month long to honor their memory and bring attention to the issue of abuse.

Get the Word Out

Purple lights themselves are DV conversation starters. Neighbors will ask why you have the purple light on. This is an opportunity to educate your community. Incorporate fact sheets of statistics about your city from your police department or county data.

Giving Hope to Those Still Living With DV

In the midst of our initial campaign, we received an email from three grieving parents. Each had lost their daughter to DV and even though it had been years for some of them, the pain was still real. These parents took the time to say, “Thank you Washington for NOT forgetting my daughter.” They became involved in Purple Light Nights®, with one mother starting her own campaign in the state of Oregon.