Intimate Partner Violence Twitter Live Chat

On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States, based on a CDC survey conducted in 2010. Over the course of a year, that equals more than 12 million women and men.

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. CDC’s VetoViolence – in partnership with the Administration of Children and Families (ACF) via the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and VAWnet, Prevent Connect, and the Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) – is hosting a Twitter Live Chat about this important issue.

We invite you to join us for a discussion on preventing intimate partner violence, evidence-based programs and practices, and resources available to assist communities in their prevention efforts!

To join the live chat on Tuesday, October 23 at 3 pm EST, follow #VetoViolence on Twitter, and be sure to include the hashtag in all of your tweets.

If you’ve got questions about the chat, go ahead and post them in the comment thread here. And send any questions about Intimate Partner Violence to @CDCInjury on Twitter.

We look forward to chatting with you Tuesday!

To learn more:

• About the event:
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/socialmedia/twitter.html

• Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/intimatepartnerviolence

• National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/nisvs/

• National Domestic Violence Hotline:
1-800-799-SAFE
http://www.thehotline.org/

• Administration of Children and Families
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/

• National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
http://www.nrcdv.org/

• VAWnet
http://www.vawnet.org/

• Prevent Connect
http://preventconnect.org/

• Office of Violence Against Women
http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/