Sexual Assault Resources
Lori's Healing and Empowerment Zone!
Website for
Lori Robinson, author of I Will Survive: The African American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse
RAINN
The
Rape Abuse and Incest National Network website. Free/Confidential Hotline available 24/7
Telephone: 800-656-HOPE (800-656-4673)
The Joyful Heart Foundation (JFH)
The Joyful Heart Foundation is committed to the total healing and recovery of survivors of sexual assault by introducing unique programs centered on dolphin-human interaction in the wild as a way of stimulating a survivors healing journey.
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center serves as the nation’s principle information and resource center regarding all aspects of sexual violence.
telephone: 877-739-3895
Take Back the News
Take Back the News confronts the misrepresentation and underrepresentation of sexual assault in mainstream media, and seeks to raise public awareness about the epidemic nature of rape, in order to foster greater public dialogue and ultimately greater public responsibility.
We Use Art for Healing and Empowerment
A Long Walk Home, Inc.
A Long Walk Home uses the arts to document trauma and community violence, uniquely blending art therapy and social documentary to facilitate healing and global change.
Arte Sana
Arte Sana (art heals) is a nonprofit agency for underserved survivors of gender and racial violence that promotes healing and empowerment through the arts and community education.
NO! The Rape Documentary
Website for
Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ feature length documentary NO!, which is about rape, other forms of sexual violence, and healing in African-American communities. While NO! explores how the collective silence about acts of sexual assault adversely affects African Americans, it also encourages dialogue to bring about healing and reconciliation between all men and women.
Voices of Men
"Voices of Men" is an educational comedy by Ben Atherton-Zeman. This 50-minute, multimedia play deals with several important issues: sexual assault, consent, dating violence, domestic violence, sexual harassment and objectification.
Gift From Within's Support Pal Network-
This is a list for trauma survivors who suffer or who have suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Gift From Within's website also includes essays, articles, poetry and art, inspirational stories, video clips, Q&A on PTSD, book reviews, healing and recovery ideas.
Domestic Violence Resources
Break The Cycle
Break the Cycle's mission is to engage, educate and empower youth to build lives and communities free from dating and domestic
Know the Red Flags
Know the Red Flags was designed to help young adults form healthy relationships by learning to spot and deal with the warning signs of dating violence.
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence organizes for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Break the Silence, Make the Call. telephone: 800-799-SAFE (800-799-7233) / TTY: 800-787-3224
National Teen Dating Abuse Hotline
Love is Respect, the online home of the National Teen Dating Abuse Hotline, an online community that provides support and information regarding teen dating abuse.
Women's Law
WomensLaw.org provides state by state easy-to-understand legal information to women living with or escaping domestic violence.
Child Abuse Resources
Darkness to Light
Darkness to Light's mission is to shift responsibility for preventing child sexual abuse from children to adults by providing information on how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.
Enough Abuse
The Enough Abuse website provides parents, professionals, and concerned adults with knowledge and skills they need to help prevent child sexual abuse in their homes and communities.
Generation 5
Generation 5 is dedicated to stopping child sexual abuse within 5 generations.
Stop It Now!
Stop It Now! offers adults the tools they need to prevent sexual abuse before a child is harmed. They provide support, information and resources that enable individuals and families to keep children safe and create healthier communities.
Advocating for Peace & Equality
Byron Hurt
More than a filmmaker,
Byron Hurt is an anti-sexist activist who provides cutting-edge male leadership, expert analysis, keynote addresses, and workshop faciliitation in the field of sexual and gender violence prevention and education.
Feministing
Feministing.com
INCITE!
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing.
Survivor Project
The Survivor Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the needs of intersex and trans survivors of domestic and sexual violence through caring action, education and expanding access to resources and to opportunities for action.
Men Stopping Violence
Men Stopping Violence is a social change organization dedicated to ending men's violence against women.
Inspiring Sites and People
Paolo Coehlo
Paolo Coehlo's writing leads you straight to your inner truth.
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri's Idiosyncratic contemporary paintings depicting nudes and landscapes with interweaving of tiny text, often describing secrets of nature, love and intimacy.
TED
Ideas worth Spreading...
Post Secret
Post Secret is a gallery of postcard-sized images posted anonymously to unveil a secret. Shared confessions in art form.
Rita Loyd
Artist Rita Loyd's water color paintings and affirmations. A great guide when you are in search of self-love.
Jocely Johnson
Jocely Johnson shares fiction and prose about motherhood and more.
Nek Chand
Nek Chand: over twenty five acres of several thousand sculptures set in large mosaic courtyards linked by walled paths and deep gorges, Nek Chand's creation also combines huge buildings with a series of interlinking waterfalls.
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