Events

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Oct 1, 2024, 12:00 AM – Oct 31, 2024, 11:59 PM

Every October, the VIP Center celebrates Domestic Violence Awareness Month by hosting and collaborating on a variety of events and programs. DVAM is a time for the community to come together and honor survivors' experiences, mourn those we've lost, commemorate our progress, and recommit to our purpose for a safer community.

white t shirts hand painted hanging on a clothesline.

The Clothesline Project

Oct 21–23, 2024

The Clothesline Project began in 1990 when members of the Cape Cod Women’s Agenda hung a clothesline across the Village Green in Hyannis, Massachusetts, with 31 shirts designed by survivors of assault, rape, and child sexual abuse. Women viewing the clothesline came forward to create shirts of their own, and the line kept growing.