Watch for red flags and look for the purple light.

October is Domestic Violence (DV) Awareness Month, and the Kent-based nonprofit Domestic Abuse Women’s Network (DAWN) is preparing early, with upcoming Purple Light Nights events in support of survivors of domestic abuse and a place to “give a voice to victims.”

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, DAWN is bringing back the Purple Light Nights, along with survivor silhouettes known as Silent Witnesses, which will be on display throughout South King County.

Founded by Victoria Throm of the Covington Domestic Violence Task Force in 2007, the silhouettes are life-sized and wooden, representing DV survivors and are accompanied by QR codes that, when scanned, lead to “true stories from the journeys of real DV survivors” wh

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