# Domestic violence awareness month
Jenifer Knighton releases another heartfelt poem to help bring awareness to domestic violence
I lost a love that I thought I knew. a person who promised to be there till the end. I lost the love that I never felt. a love that was deeply true. someone that should have walked away the first time that you lied.
Councilman Richard Trojanski and Maple Heights Public Works & Safety Committee Host City-Wide Domestic Violence Forum
STOP Domestic Violence ForumCourtesy of The Brown Report Newspaper (Photo) Maple Heights, OH. - Domestic Violence Awareness is during October. Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) was launched nationwide in October 1987 to connect and unite individuals and organizations working on domestic violence issues while raising awareness for those issues. According to the DVAM, over the past 30+ years, much progress has been made to support domestic violence victims and survivors, to hold abusers accountable, and to create and update legislation to further those goals.
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