Resources

  • “The nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, a 24/7, free, confidential hotline in English and Spanish staffed by trained support specialists who can provide support and resources to survivors and their loved ones. Chat online at https://hotline.rainn.org or call 800-656-HOPE (4673).”

  • “The 988 Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States. We're committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness.” Call 988 for assistance.

  • “At 5WAVES, we're on a mission to create waves of change in how sibling sexual trauma and abuse are understood and addressed. We have an exciting opportunity, and we need your help to make an even bigger impact!” This website is specific to sibling sexual abuse!”

  • “As a global, and survivor-led, movement against sexual violence, Me Too. is dedicated to creating pathways for healing, justice, action and leadership. If your life was forever changed by sexual violence, you are not alone. Wherever you are in your healing journey, Me Too is here to help.”

  • “TransformHarm.org is a resource hub for ending violence. We are not an organization. This site offers an introduction to transformative justice. Created by Mariame Kaba and designed by Lu Design Studio, the site includes selected articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more.”

  • “Equal Rights Advocates fights for gender justice in workplaces and schools across the country. Since 1974, ERA’s been fighting on the front lines of social justice to protect and advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and people of all gender identities through groundbreaking legal cases and bold legislation that sets the stage for the rest of the nation.”

  • “Futures Without Violence is a health and social justice nonprofit with a simple mission: to heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and to create healthy families and communities free of violence tomorrow. From domestic violence and child abuse, to bullying and sexual assault, our groundbreaking programs, policy development, and public action campaigns are designed to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world.”

  • “One Love Foundation is a national nonprofit with the goal of ending relationship abuse. It empowers young people with tools and resources to see the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships and bring life-saving prevention education to their communities.”

  • “Support, podcasts, research and more. This website is specific to sibling sexual abuse!”

  • “End Rape on Campus (EROC) works to end campus sexual violence through direct support for survivors and their communities; prevention through education; and policy reform at the campus, local, state, and federal levels.”

  • “BetterBrave’s mission is to end workplace harassment and discrimination together. BetterBrave empowers you with the resources and tools necessary to navigate and address toxic workplaces.”

  • “24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse. Contacts to The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.” Call 1-800-799-7233.

  • “The Grateful Garment Project provides victims of sexual violence the clothing and other resources they need to reclaim their dignity and begin the healing process. The project works with hospitals, shelters, law enforcement and other nonprofits to meet victims’ immediate needs after a crisis, and support their ongoing needs along their road to recovery.”

  • “Rise began in 2014 as an effort to bring equality to sexual assault survivors across the country and around the world. Along the way, it became something even bigger: a model for how anyone can drive democracy, scale hope, and create change.”

  • “NSVRC provides research & tools to advocates working on the frontlines to end sexual harassment, assault, and abuse with the understanding that ending sexual violence also means ending racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression.”

  • “This website is dedicated to supporting survivors of sibling sexual abuse with support, information, blogs, and community. This website is specific to sibling sexual abuse!”

  • “Founded in 2013, Know Your IX is a survivor- and youth-led project of Advocates for Youth that aims to empower students to end sexual and dating violence in their schools. It draws upon the civil rights law Title IX as an alternative to the criminal legal system — one that is more just and responsive to the educational, emotional, financial, and stigmatic harms of violence.”

  • “The Center for Changing Our Campus Culture (The Center) is an online resource to address sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. The Center is supported by the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women in collaboration with its designated Campus Program Technical Assistance Provider Team.”

  • “The National Women’s Law Center fights for gender justice—in the courts, in public policy, and in our society—working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. The NWLC uses the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions to the gender inequity that shapes our society and to break down the barriers that harm all of us—especially women of color, LGBTQ people, and low-income women and families. For 50 years, it has been on the leading edge of every major legal and policy victory for women.”

  • “Since 2004, Joyful Heart has been a leading national organization with a mission to transform society’s response to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, support survivors’ healing, and end this violence forever. Joyful Heart carries out its mission through an integrated program portfolio of education and advocacy.”

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  • “SIA empowers those who have survived childhood sexual abuse (who are not abusing any child), who want to become survivors and thrivers. Using our experience, strength and hope, we do this by: maintaining a world-wide directory of SIA, self-help, support ​groups (meetings); providing information to start SIA groups, ​intergroups, and national service ​offices; creating and distributing SIA ​information tools ​(literature, ​newsletter, electronic ​media); guiding SIA’s public information efforts ​worldwide; offering a speakers’ bureau.”

  • Hear from and get resources, ideas, information for survivors, families, siblings who harmed. This website is specific to sibling sexual abuse!

  • “The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV) is the voice in Washington, DC for the 56 state and territorial sexual assault coalitions and 1300 rape crisis centers working to end sexual violence and support survivors.”

  • “This is the first and largest online and mobile searchable directory of domestic violence programs and shelters in the U.S. and Canada, and a leading source of helpful tools and information for people experiencing and working to end domestic violence.”

  • “Workplaces Respond to Domestic and Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center educates and builds collaborations among workplace and non-workplace stakeholders – employers, worker associations, unions, and anti-violence advocates – to prevent and respond to domestic violence, sexual harassment & violence, trafficking, stalking, and exploitation impacting the workplace.”

  • “Like the red AIDS ribbon or the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon before it, the blue NO MORE symbol is the first overarching, unifying symbol to express universal support for ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Survivor-inspired, developed in consultation with top marketing and branding pros and tested with diverse audiences, the symbol’s signature blue ‘vanishing point’ evolved from the concept of zero – as in zero incidences of DV/SA. Our partners use the NO MORE symbol to amplify the power of the domestic violence and sexual assault movement.”

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