What Is Wrapped In Courage

As a means to educate elected officials about violence against women and the impact that a decade-long funding freeze had on shelters and more importantly survivors and their children seeking safety, the Ontario Association of Interval & Transition Houses launched the Wrapped in Courage Campaign in 2013.

Thirteen years later, we continue to call for increased funding to essential services and building awareness of what services exist across the province.  Since the start of the campaign approximately 250,000 scarves have been sold to support OAITH and our member organizations doing critical work in the community. We thank you for this incredible support!

The campaign engages local communities throughout November with the support of gender-based violence services to build awareness, connect survivors to services and to call on decision makers about the social change that is desperately needed.

Every year throughout the month of November we call on all Ontarians to take action to show their support for survivors of gender-based violence by wearing a purple scarf and attending a Wrapped in Courage flag raising and proclamation event in your community. Take action towards violence prevention today, because #everypurplescarf builds a community that cares.