October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and The Red Flag Campaign is returning to Fort Hays State University.

The Women’s Leadership Project is bringing the campaign back to FHSU to help raise awareness and address dating violence and promote the prevention of dating violence on college campuses.

The campaign was created using a “bystander intervention” strategy, encouraging friends and other campus community members to “say something” when they see warning signs or “red flags” for dating violence in a friend’s relationship.

Throughout the month of October, red flags will be displayed on the FHSU campus to remind everyone to address “red flags” they may see with friends, family, or personally.

The Women’s Leadership Project will also be hosting events throughout the month of October.

Tuesday and Wednesday the group will kick off the campaign with a table in the Memorial Union from 11am-1pm. There will be a self-defense workshop on October 12th. The third annual Domestic Violence Summit will be at Hays Med Center on October 15th.

Red Day, is new this year where the campus and Hays Community are encouraged to wear red in an open commitment to ‘say something’ when they see a relationship red flag.

On October 24th the Women’s Leadership Project will host their final event for the month, a screening of the documentary film “The Invisible War” in Cody Commons.