We will happily send you information on other groups who are also working to reduce social and domestic violence, and encourage those who are interested in starting more complex local fundraising and awareness efforts. Some local groups have allied themselves with church, civic, or governmental organizations to raise money, distribute flyers and ribbons, hold rallys, and raise awareness. You would be encouraged to do whatever you felt was possible in your area. The PRP was founded on some very basic principles which we ask those who adopt the purple ribbon as a symbol to accept. If you can't support these principles, that's o.k., but perhaps you would be better off in a different anti-violence effort.
Violence is a cycle of learned behavior.
Violence in schools, communites, and the society is nearly always to product of violence in homes. Violence flourishes as the result of social and personal tolerance of it. If we speak out, if we seek assistance as victims of violence, if we shun those who use violence against others, if we offer a safe refuge to other victims of violence, we will inevitably affect the cycle of violence that exists in our society. We have to stop being the silent majority and start being the vocal majority. We only have to join together and make our voices heard.