Hot Pink Day
One day. One color. Everywhere at once.
Every year, without fail
The Third Wednesday
of November In 2026, that is Wednesday, November 18
of November In 2026, that is Wednesday, November 18
One date. Not a date you choose — the date. Every community, every courthouse, every workplace, on the same Wednesday.
That is the point of it. A hundred gatherings scattered across November is a hundred local stories. A hundred gatherings on one Wednesday is a national one.
Why hot pink
Pink ribbons turned breast cancer into a national conversation. Hot pink at a courthouse is doing the same for family court.
When protective parents and their communities show up together — visibly, publicly, in pink — it sends a message that cannot be dismissed in a hearing room.
The color began in Wayne County, Georgia, with a countywide sign campaign that has since been taken up across the country. What started on lawns in one small county now appears in states that have never heard of it. Hot Pink Day gives that color a date.
Two ways to take part
Just wear pink
The simplest version, and the one anyone can do. Put on something pink that Wednesday and go about your day. No registration, no donation, nowhere to be.
Then, when somebody asks you why — and they will, that is the whole purpose of the color — tell them. Tell them family courts decide every day where children live and who they are alone with, and that those decisions are too often made without current knowledge of domestic violence, coercive control, or child abuse. Tell them there is a month for it, and their city can proclaim it.
That conversation is the campaign. The shirt is only what starts it.
Or host a gathering
Bring people together at your courthouse, your capitol steps, or a public square — on the third Wednesday, alongside everyone else. We provide the kit free, including the signs. Register below and we will add you to the national map.
Hosting: three steps
01Register
Tell us your city and your location. We add you to the national Hot Pink Day map and send your kit within two weeks.
02Organize
Use the kit to invite your community, contact local media, and request a proclamation from your city. We support you the whole way.
03Show up
On the third Wednesday of November, your community gathers in pink — at the same hour as every other community doing the same thing.
Communities that register by September receive priority sign shipments.
What is in the free kit
You bring the community. We bring the tools. Every registered host receives the complete kit at no cost.
Hot Pink Signs
Professional yard signs bearing #HotPinkForChildren and barron-foundation.org. Designed for high-visibility placement on civic ground — courthouses, capitol steps, public plazas. Quantity based on your event size.
The Proclamation Toolkit
The full request letter and ready-to-adopt proclamation language, kept current and used by every state lead in the country.
Fact Sheet
One page for city clerks and councils. The numbers, what is being asked for, and why it costs a jurisdiction nothing.
Social Media Guide
Ready-to-post captions, hashtags, and a day-of schedule for Instagram, Facebook and TikTok — before, during and after.
Press Release Template
Customizable release for local media. Fill in your city; everything else is written. Local coverage multiplies the day.
Community Outreach Templates
Email and flyer templates to invite local businesses, churches, schools and advocacy groups. A crowd starts with one email.
Silicone Bracelets
#HotPinkForChildren on the front, barron-foundation.org on the back, for distribution to participants.
The sign, in public space
The Hot Pink Sign is built for high-visibility placement on civic ground — capitol buildings, courthouses and public plazas, in every state where protective parents stand.
Design visualizations. Signs are supplied free to registered hosts.
Ask your city to proclaim
Most mayors and county commissioners will sign a proclamation recognizing November as Family Court Awareness Month when they are asked. Many will also recognize Hot Pink Day itself — our proclamation language names the day alongside the month.
Everything you need is written and free: the letter, the proclamation language, the timing, and the mistakes to avoid.
Send it early
Councils set their autumn agendas in August and early September. More proclamation requests fail on timing than on anything else — a good request arriving in late October is usually not refused, it simply misses the calendar.
Post it. Tag it.
Use these before, during and after the day. Tag @barronfoundation and use both hashtags so we can amplify you to our full audience.
One week before
“Hot Pink Day is Wednesday, November 18. More than 58,000 children a year are ordered into unsupervised contact with an abusive parent by a court that was supposed to protect them. I am wearing pink because silence is not an option. Will you join me?”
The day itself
“Hot pink today, for every child the family court system has failed and every child it still can protect. The third Wednesday of November, every year. Ask me why I am wearing this.”
After
“This is what showing up looks like. Thank you to everyone who wore pink today — here and in communities across the country. Next year, same day: the third Wednesday of November.”
Mark it now
The third Wednesday of November. Every year, from here on.
Wherever you are that day — at work, at school, in the drop-off line, in a courtroom, in another country — wear pink. You do not need to be anywhere in particular. You only need to be visible where you already are.
Still, we rise.
