Phillies, PCADV & Joe Torre Safe At Home Team Up to Raise Awareness About Domestic Violence at Friday’s Game

Prior to Friday’s game, the Phillies will host Domestic Violence Awareness Night, featuring a special on-field recognition focused on raising awareness and helping end the cycle of domestic violence and abuse.

• Taking part will be Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Torre, who, along with his wife Ali, founded Safe At Home to help end the cycle of domestic violence and abuse through education. Rooted in the shared values of safety, respect, teamwork, leadership, and positive role modeling, Safe At Home partners with Minor League Baseball and several Major League Baseball clubs to raise awareness of domestic violence, abuse, bullying, and harassment that perpetuate cycles of harm in relationships and communities, and expand access to trusted resources.
• Joining Torre will be Phillies interim manager Don Mattingly and Susan Higginbotham, CEO of Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV), which provides free and confidential direct services to nearly 90,000 victims and survivors of domestic violence and their children across Pennsylvania.

OTHER SUPPORT:

• Phillies players, staff, coaches and grounds crew will wear purple shirts at batting practice to help raise awareness for the cause.
• Representatives from PCADV and Safe At Home will be at the First and Third Base Plazas with information and resources.
• There will be a basic necessities collection at the entrance gates to support Women Against Abuse. Wish list includes feminine hygiene products, diapers and pull-ups, wipes, toiletries, laundry detergent and books. Donors will receive a special ticket discount voucher for a future Phillies game.

ABOUT JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME

Founded in 2002 by Ali and Joe Torre, Safe At Home was created to end the cycle of domestic violence and abuse through education. Safe At Home’s Margaret’s Place, named in honor of Joe’s mother, is a safe space in schools which offers both trauma-informed prevention and intervention services for empowerment, education, and understanding. Students are given the tools to understand what healthy relationships look like, how to care for themselves and each other, and how to support friends in need—so that everyone feels safer and braver at school, at home, and wherever they go. Safe At Home reaches more than 28,000 students each year and has directly served over 425,000 young people, families, schools, and communities across California, New York, Ohio, and two international locations since the organization’s inception.

ABOUT PCADV

Founded in 1976, PCADV is the oldest statewide domestic violence coalition in the nation. Each year, its network of 59 local domestic violence programs provides free and confidential direct services to nearly 90,000 victims and survivors of domestic violence and their children in all 67 counties of the Commonwealth. Together, local programs and the statewide Coalition work in collaboration to deliver a continuum of services, support, and systems to help victims and survivors find safety, obtain justice, and build lives free of abuse.