The Women's Resource Center will host Voices for Peace and Empowerment - a candelight vigil honoring victims and survivors of domestic violence - on October 15 from 6-8pm. The event, part of the National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, will take place at the WRC main office at 720 South Elmwood.

“The vigil honors those who are no longer able to raise their voice due to domestic violence and includes a time to offer a statement, reading or song and participate in a short walk,” says Women’s Resource Center Executive Director Juliette Schultz. “The event is free-of-charge and all community members who support a zero-tolerance position against violence and support peace are welcome.”

According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, and an estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. The Women's Resource Center provides crisis intervention, emergency and longer term housing, one-on-one and group support and advocacy to nearly 2,000 victims/survivors of domestic violence in the five-county region every year, and operates Helen’s House, an emergency shelter providing safe shelter to nearly 200 women and children annually.