Solutions

Include solutions, potential or proven, in your stories on domestic violence. It empowers the survivors who fuel your reporting, and it empowers audiences who want to know what we all can do to help end domestic violence.

Showcase what works 

Report on programs, organizations, and interventions that have successfully supported survivors. Detail how these solutions work and the impact they have on individuals, families, and communities.

Look for the systems

Including the role of systems in survivor stories can show the importance of social services, community resources, and legal protections. It can also reveal whether those systems are serving survivors and their families as intended.

Challenge misconceptions

Reporting on resilience and solutions helps your audience shift from viewing survivors solely as victims to recognizing them as individuals with agency and strength.

“When I talk about my experience, it can be really heavy. People want not necessarily a happy ending, but they want to know that they can do something about it."

Angela Kim

Violence prevention consultant and writer on survivorship and disability

Solutions

Include solutions, potential or proven, in your stories on domestic violence. It empowers the survivors who fuel your reporting, and it empowers audiences who want to know what we all can do to help end domestic violence.

In practice

Showcase what works

Look for the systems

Challenge misconceptions

“When I talk about my experience, it can be really heavy. People want not necessarily a happy ending, but they want to know that they can do something about it."

Next Principles

Diversity

Expertise

Transparency

Diversity

Expertise

Transparency

Sensitivity

Safety

We can end domestic violence, together.

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