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One of the biggest predictors of a child’s ability to be resilient in the face of trauma is interacting with a caring adult. Through everyday gestures, any adult in a child’s life can vastly increase that child’s opportunity for success. Learn how your everyday gestures can help a child in your life.

In order to do culturally-specific research and evaluation well, researchers must build relationships with survivors and advocates. This is why community-based participatory research – as an approach that requires ongoing collaboration and developing trust – is so valuable. And why it leads to interventions and responses that are often more relevant for survivors and communities.

This October, the Domestic Violence Awareness Project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence built upon conversations from 2015 around Awareness + Action = Social Change by offering key awareness activities and action steps for propelling us forward together.

For Domestic Violence Awareness Month and beyond, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) wants to draw attention to the role of collective resilience as a transformative response to the violence and trauma experienced by our communities.

Suzanne Cole started her early summer day behind a stack of purple folders, in a small Anchorage office surrounded by shelves of folders. To get to the office, she had to walk through a room with more shelves filled with thousands and thousands of purple folders — most representing an Alaskan’s accusation of domestic violence against another, and the rest for stalking.

Rosie Batty, whose son Luke was murdered by his own father at cricket practice, has partnered with make up brand Lancôme for a new campaign. The 2015 Australian of the Year is the face of the Love Your Age campaign and is the first Australian to front a commercial for the brand. The campaign will help raise awareness of domestic violence – a cause that Ms Batty has championed since her son was killed in 2014.