The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
Among its programs, RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline. This nationwide partnership of more than 1,100 local rape treatment hotlines provides victims of sexual assault with free, confidential services around the clock.
This organization is a special center within The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Their Web site is provided as an educational resource concerning PTSD and other consequences of traumatic stress, for a variety of audiences, including survivors of child sexual abuse.
Non-profit organization that serves victims of sexual and domestic violence.
Protecting Rights of Each Victim of Abuse In Louisiana
Survivor, Diamond Ryan's site about her fight for justice. Provides information on Louisiana community projects as well as national resources for survivors of domestic violence and abuse.
A new site devoted to abolishing Domestic Violence (DV). The mission of RESEARCH STUDIES, INC. is to establish a preventive program against domestic violence by gathering and analyzing legally available data to establish profiles on given domestic abusers. This information may help innocent women and others discover if the person they are dating, considering dating, or corresponding with over the internet sites, is a person who has a past legal history as a domestic abuser or who fits the profile of an abuser. Such knowledge, could be extremely valuable to help identify and avoid dating or marrying such a person.
The goal of the Silver Braid Survivors of Sexual Exploitation Network is to help bring healing to those that have been victims of sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Their outreach networks throughout the United States help locate victims of sexual exploitation and provide them with the services that help prevent re-victimization. They also assist survivors in getting out of the sex industry, finding new job skills and receiving a variety of other services that they need to redesign their lives to be able to live a healthy life.
Voices for Justice is a 501(c)3 Public Benefit California non-profit corporation. They are dedicated to helping survivors of both sexual exploitation and human trafficking. Their have outreach networks throughout the United States that help locate victims of sexual exploitation and provide them with the services that help prevent revictimization.
Informative site started by some very active survivors. (See also: The Silver Braid Survivors of Sexual Exploitation Network and Voices for Justice below.) Also provides guidelines for setting up your own local 12-step group.
Stop It Now! was founded in 1992 by Fran Henry, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, who recognized that standard ideas about preventing sexual abuse of children weren’t working. Stop It Now! believes that all adults must accept the responsibility to recognize, acknowledge and confront the behaviors that lead to the sexual abuse of children. They offer adults tools they can use to prevent sexual abuse - before there’s a victim to heal or an offender to punish.
When you click daily to help Amnesty International, your clicks help generate letters to fight on behalf of brave women around the world. Your clicks help draw more attention to crimes against women and will help stop more from occuring! Thank you for your help!
SOAR (Speaking Out About Rape) runs national awareness, education and prevention programs to empower survivors of sexual violence and enhance the public's understanding and acceptance of rape victims.
Meet and interact with other survivors of sexual violence.
In the fall of 1998, while still a member of the U.S. Congress, Linda Smith was traveling on Falkland Road in Bombay, India, the location of one of the worst brothels in the world. The hopeless faces of desperate women and children forced into prostitution compelled Linda to found Shared Hope International (SHI), a non-profit organization with the mission of rescuing and restoring victims of sex trafficking.
Their three-pronged strategy—prevent, rescue and restore—is producing hope.
Leading a worldwide effort to eradicate
the marketplaces of sexual slavery...one life at a time.
Community Justice Initiatives (CJI) is a non-profit organization, known world-wide as having started the first restorative justice program. They provide services in conflict resolution, sexual trauma and support for women after they leave prison. They serve everyone, including families, friends, groups, neighbours, schools, and the workplace.
All of their programs are founded on principles of restorative justice, a way of addressing conflict and crime that engages the person who caused the harm and people who were affected by the harm.
If you're a child who has been sexually abused, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 800-422-4453 for help or visit www.childhelpusa.org.
A support group for individuals conceived by rape or incest. They also provide support to women who have been pregnant by assault or are raising rape or
incest conceived children.
Features of STIGMA for members include:
Email Support List
Chat Room
Optional contacts to obtain support
Information and general support
Sexual Assault Support Services
24-hour FREE & CONFIDENTIAL Hotline
1-888-747-7070
Through access to program services, such as: crisis intervention, support groups, education, information and referral services, survivors are supported through the healing process.
Women Against Domestic Violence (WADV) is an online organization that seeks to provide support and information to any adult or child who is or has been the victim of domestic abuse. They are a group of women from all over the world who have come together to put an end to violence in our homes. Each day women, men and children are living in war zones right here in our own country and very little is being done to protect them. They want to make living that life and escaping that life a little bit easier.
Through communication and support the women of WADV have helped many leave abusive situations and start a new life. You're not alone in the fight. There are many more out there who are willing to listen and to help. What ever you do don't ever give up!
Publicly Funded Enlightening Film Production
A Charitable Non-Profit Film Production
This film and MySpace site are raising awareness about the global problem of human trafficking and slavery. Many people think slavery ended during the American Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. This is not so! There are many innocent victims of slavery, sometimes as young as eight (8) years old who are enslaved for forced prostitution, domestic sex slaves, horse / camel jockeys, forced labor, religious sacrifices, or murdered and butchered for their body parts to be sold in the international organ transplant markets. Get informed! Get involved!
