Cobb County Shines Purple brings our community together during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Through education, survivor-centered conversations, resources, and visible expressions of support, we can help more people recognize domestic violence and know where to turn for help.

Domestic violence impacts individuals, children, families, workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods. While many survivors seek help, many others never report abuse because of fear, isolation, financial dependence, coercive control, safety concerns, or uncertainty about available resources.

A coordinated community awareness initiative helps reduce stigma, increases visibility of trusted support services, and encourages residents to recognize the signs of abuse and connect survivors with help.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) · cdc.gov/violenceprevention

Survivor voices can educate communities, strengthen advocacy, improve services, and inspire hope. Those voices must always be honored responsibly—with informed consent, emotional safety, confidentiality, dignity, and support.

Voices of Hope is not about requiring survivors to publicly share painful experiences. It is about creating safe and empowering pathways for survivors to participate in ways that respect their readiness, privacy, comfort, and personal boundaries.

A survivor may choose to:

Every element of Voices of Hope is grounded in emotional safety, confidentiality, informed consent, dignity, and respect. Survivors remain in control of what they share, when they share, and whether they participate.

The following formats represent possible future opportunities. Final activities will depend on participant readiness, organizational capacity, leadership approval, and appropriate survivor safeguards.

During Cobb County Shines Purple, Voices of Hope recognizes the courage, resilience, wisdom, and leadership of survivors. This program element reminds every survivor that they are more than what happened to them and that their voice, healing, safety, and future matter.

When survivors choose to participate, their experiences should be received with dignity—not treated as entertainment, performance, or obligation.

Voices of Hope may grow into a structured survivor-leadership initiative connected to RedBud Blossom Family Justice Center-Cobb County. Potential areas of development include survivor-informed advocacy, peer engagement, public education, leadership development, service feedback, and community accountability.

These opportunities are being explored collaboratively. Final program structure, leadership roles, participation requirements, and launch plans have not yet been announced.

Cobb County Shines Purple envisions a community where every resident understands the impact of domestic violence, every survivor knows where to seek help, and every community partner understands its role in awareness and prevention.

Whether you are a resident, business owner, school administrator, healthcare provider, faith leader, or community organization — we welcome all who share a commitment to awareness, prevention, and hope.

Volunteers are essential to the success of this initiative.

Approved community organizations will be added after their information, services, logo permissions, and public listing have been reviewed and confirmed.

Organizations providing survivor-centered services may request consideration for an outdoor resource table. Participation is subject to available space, relevance, safety review, venue requirements, and final approval.

Participation does not imply official endorsement by Cobb County, the District Attorney's Office, or the Purple Casket Campaign unless separately confirmed in writing.

There are simple, meaningful ways to take part. Choose an action that fits you, your family, workplace, organization, or faith community.

Want to help your organization participate or have a question? Contact us at: Dilma.Dosreis@cobbcounty.gov

If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, help is available. You deserve to be safe. The following resources are free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week unless otherwise noted.

Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit people for labor or commercial sex. It can happen in any community and affects people of all ages, races, genders, and backgrounds. Survivors deserve compassion, dignity, and access to trusted support.

Human trafficking may overlap with domestic violence, sexual violence, financial abuse, housing insecurity, coercive control, and other forms of exploitation. Recognizing these connections is an important step toward building safer, more informed communities.

If you are concerned about someone's safety, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or call 911 when it is safe to do so.

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This initiative is maintained by the Purple Casket Campaign. Cobb County Shines Purple is a proposed community initiative. No government agency has officially endorsed, sponsored, or assumed leadership of this initiative unless separately announced in writing. Cobb County Shines Purple provides general awareness and resource information. It is not a substitute for emergency, legal, medical, mental-health, counseling, shelter, or law-enforcement services. If you are in immediate danger, call 911 when it is safe to do so.