The DVCC Silent Witness Project is currently made up of twenty-five (25) life-sized, blood-red women figures, each representing a woman (and their children) who once lived, worked, had neighbors, friends, family and children – whose life was ended violently at the hands of a husband, ex-husband, or intimate partner.  Since the original construction, the DVCC has added six (6) children figures to draw attention to the numerous children have also murdered in acts of domestic violence among adults.  The DVCC Silent Witness Project has been displayed throughout Omaha and the surrounding counties in churches, businesses, colleges, schools, offices, and more.  

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REMEMBERING…

To honor the women and children who were murdered in acts of domestic violence;

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AWARENESS…

To raise the awareness in our communities of the extent of domestic violence;

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ADVOCACY…

To help connect people with local resources for ending the violence in their lives;

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LEGISLATION…

To encourage community and legislative action to end the violence in our society.

The DVCC Silent Witness Project

The Silent Witness Project is a national powerful, visual, traveling memorial honoring women who were killed in acts of domestic violence by their current or former intimate partners.  The exhibit was originally conceived by a small group of women artists and writers in Minnesota called Arts Action Against Domestic Violence.  After discussing various possibilities, it was decided to use the shapes of chalk outlines drawn by police around murder victims.  Across the country this traveling memorial has been displayed in courthouses, city halls, shopping malls, shelters, schools, churches and on the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C.   Silent Witness Projects exist in each of the 50 states.

The DVCC Silent Witness Project is currently made up of twenty-five (25) life-sized, blood-red women figures, each representing a woman (and their children) who once lived, worked, had neighbors, friends, family and children – whose life was ended violently at the hands of a husband, ex-husband, or intimate partner.  Since the original construction, the DVCC has added six (6) children figures to draw attention to the numerous children have also murdered in acts of domestic violence among adults.  The DVCC Silent Witness Project has been displayed throughout Omaha and the surrounding counties in churches, businesses, colleges, schools, offices, and more.  

The DVCC created its Silent Witness Project in 1997 with input from the Southwest Iowa Domestic Violence Coalition. When first built, the DVCC Silent Witness Project was constructed by North High School ‘shop’ students who cut and sanded the figures out of plywood according to Silent Witness Project national guidelines.  Volunteers from Calvary Baptist Church painted the figures and built stands for each.  The DVCC tracks all domestic violence related murders around the area and prepares ‘badges’ mounted on the chest of each adult and child figure.  An example of both the adult and child laminated badge is as follows: