National Organizations

 

1 in 6 www.1in6.org 

The mission of 1in6 is to help men who have had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences in childhood live healthier, happier lives. Our mission also includes serving family members, friends, and partners of male survivors by providing information and support resources on the web and in the community.

 

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers http://www.atsa.com/association-treatment-sexual-abusers

The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers is an international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to preventing sexual abuse. Through research, education, and shared learning ATSA promotes evidence based practice, public policy and community strategies that lead to the effective assessment, treatment and management of individuals who have sexually abused or are at risk to abuse.

 

Creative Interventions www.stopviolenceeveryday.org

Creative Interventions is a national organization running STOP (the Story Telling & Organizing Project), a community project collecting and sharing stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence. Many people have been developing community-based interventions to interpersonal violence. By that we mean:

actions taken to stop, address or prevent interpersonal violence; community-based or collective action — involving family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, community members; and actions that do not rely on social services, police or child protective services.

 

Darkness 2 Light http://www.d2l.org

Help Line: 866-367-5444

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.

 

Demand the Change for Children/ Voices of Experience http://www.demandthechangeforchildren.com 

Demand the Change for Children (DCC) is a grassroots and multidisciplinary collaboration of individuals and organizations working together to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and to counter the normalization of sexual harm and the sexualization of children. One effort brought together 52 agencies at Mall of America  for an interactive, arts filled, day-long celebration of children and a call to action to join together to end sexual abuse.

Their Voices of Experience project collects digital stories from adult survivors of child sexual abuse, parents and loved ones of children who were sexually abused, those who perpetrated the harm and professionals deeply affected or transformed by such stories and engages these stories as a tool for social change and prevention.

 

FaithTrust Institute http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org 

FaithTrust Institute is a national, multifaith, multicultural training and education organization with global reach working to end sexual and domestic violence.

 

GenerationFIVE http://www.generationfive.org/

The mission of generationFIVE is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations. Through survivor and bystander leadership development, community prevention and intervention, public action, and cross-movement building, generationFIVE works to interrupt and mend the intergenerational impact of child sexual abuse on individuals, families, and communities.

 

Generative Somatics http://www.generativesomatics.org/

The mission of Generative Somatics is to grow a transformative social and environmental justice movement: one that integrates personal and social transformation, creates compelling alternatives to the status quo and embodies the creativity, rigor and life affirming actions we need to forward systemic change.  

 

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence http://incite-national.org/

INCITE! is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and our communities through direct action, critical dialogue, and grassroots organizing.

 

Joyful Heart Foundation

http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/

The Joyful Heart Foundation works to foster a community that turns toward the issues of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse. Such a community, empowered with knowledge, courage and compassion, can support survivors of this violence and engage in an open dialogue about how to collaboratively end the cycle of violence and abuse.

 

MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA)  www.mncasa.org (800) 964-8847

Helps its member programs and the broader community understand that preventing sexual abuse and exploitation of children is foundational to prevention of sexual violence throughout the lifespan. Key strategies in this effort are 1) Demand the Change for Children, a social change effort disguised as an event, 2) engaging Voices of Experience (VOE), to highlight stories focused on solutions for social change to advance prevention. (Both Demand the Change & VOE are described under “Programs that Inspire Us,” above), and 3) Policy work to advance prevention through community and legislative change.

 

National Children’s Alliance

http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/ 

(800) 239-9950

Provides training, support, technical assistance and leadership on a national level to local children’s and child advocacy centers and communities responding to reports of child abuse and neglect.

 

National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation http://www.preventtogether.org/

Our mission is a unified effort to promote the healthy development of children and youth; and end their sexual abuse and exploitation. Our National Plan to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and

Exploitation was originally produced in 2008, updated in 2012, and is available on our website.

 

National Sexual Violence Resource Center http://www.nsvrc.org/

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) opened in July 2000 as a national information and resource hub relating to all aspects of sexual violence. The NSVRC staff collects and disseminates a wide range of resources on sexual violence including statistics, research, position statements, statutes, training curricula, prevention initiatives and program information. With these resources, the NSVRC assists coalitions, advocates and others interested in understanding and eliminating sexual violence.

 

NEARI Press

http://nearipress.org/ 

For over 20 years, NEARI has been providing nationally recognized, cutting edge work with seriously emotionally disturbed children and youth as well as providing state of the art resources about sexual abuse prevention.

 

Prevent Child Abuse America http://www.preventchildabuse.org 

(800) CHILDREN 

Since 1972, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America) has led the way in building awareness, providing education and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation's children. Working with our chapters, we provide leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at both the national and local levels.

 

Prevention Institute http://www.preventioninstitute.org/ 

Prevention Institute brings cutting-edge research, practice, and analysis to today's pressing health and safety concerns. Determined to achieve health and safety for all, to improve community environments equitably, and to serve as a focal point for primary prevention practice, the Institute asks what can be done in the first place, before people get sick or injured.

 

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)  www.rainn.org

Hotline: 800-656-HOPE

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN created the National Sexual Assault Hotlines, which it operates in partnership with more than 1,100 local rape crisis centers across the country. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.

 

Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands

https://www.stsm.org/

24-Hour Crisis Hotline: 803-771-7273 

Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands educates the community on how to identify and prevent sexual assault. They advocate for, support and provide multiple resources for survivors of sexual assault and abuse. They serve Richland, Lexington, Newberry, Claredon, and Sumter counties in South Carolina. And whenever you need them, they have a 24 hours crisis hotline for individuals and families affected by child sexual abuse. 

 

Stop It Now! www.stopitnow.org

888-PREVENT

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. In collaboration with a network of community-based programs, they reach out to adults who are concerned about their own or others’ sexualized behavior toward children.

 

Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc.

www.stopcsa.org

301-464-4791

Stop the Silence works with others toward the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse. The worldwide mission of Stop the Silence is to expose and stop child sexual abuse, help survivors heal, and celebrate the lives of those healed.

 

Support for Orthodox Jewish Victims of Rape and Incest (SOVRI)

National Help Line: 888-613-1613

We are here to listen Monday-Thursday 9:30am-5:30pm and Friday 9:30am-1:30pm Eastern Standard Time. We are confidential, anonymous and don't have caller-ID. 

 

Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) http://www.snapnetwork.org/

We are the largest, oldest and most active support group for women and men wounded by religious authority figures (priests, ministers, bishops, deacons, nuns and others). We are an independent and confidential organization, with no connections with the church or church officials.

 

TAALK (Orange County, CA) http://www.taalk.org/ 

TAALK is a US-based non-profit organization with a core belief that child sexual abuse is predictable and preventable when we surround children with knowledgeable and outspoken adults, and we all play a part in the solution. TAALK is an acronym for Talk About Abuse to Liberate Kids. The TAALK dream is to eliminate child sexual abuse in communities around the world. Until then, TAALK will vigilantly carry out its mission to reduce children’s vulnerability to child sexual abuse and to support survivors through the healing process.

 

Regional Organizations

 

California

Peace Over Violence (LA) http://peaceoverviolence.org/

Peace Over Violence focuses on the intervention and prevention of sexual assault, domestic violence, teen dating violence and stalking in Los Angeles County.

 

Georgia

Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective (Atlanta) http://www.kindredhealingjustice.org/

A project conceived by healers and organizers in the South in 2007, as a response to the crisis of trauma, violence and social conditions in our region. Through conversations and strategy sessions many organizers and healers continue to identify a need to be able to respond to the increased state of burnout and depression in our movements; systematic loss of our communities’ healing traditions; the isolation and stigmatization of healers, and the increased privatization of our land, medicine and natural resources that has caused us to rely on state or private models we do not trust and that do not serve us.

 

Raksha (Atlanta) http://www.raksha.org/ 

Raksha is a Georgia-based non profit support and referral network for the South Asian community.  Raksha primarily addresses domestic and sexual violence within the South Asian community. 

 

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Citizens for Children http://www.masskids.org/ 

Our mission is to improve the lives of the state's most vulnerable children through advocacy by concerned citizens. Over its nearly 50-year history, the organization’s work has been grounded in the belief that all Massachusetts children have the inherent right to be safe from abuse, neglect, and violence, to be economically secure and free from poverty, to receive quality medical and preventive care, to learn in quality child care and school settings, and to live in caring families and healthy communities. 

 

Enough Abuse Campaign (MA) http://www.enoughabuse.org

This campaign against child sexual abuse is run by the Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership, a statewide partnership of over two dozen agencies with policy and program expertise in public health, child abuse prevention, sexual violence prevention, sex offender treatment/management, child protection, victim advocacy and services, and research and evaluation. Its mission to prevent people from sexually abusing children now, and to prevent children from developing sexually abusive behaviors in the future. 

 

Minnesota

Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (St. Paul) http://www.mncasa.org/

http://demandthechangeforchildren.wordpress.com/

The Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA) represents rape crisis centers and allied agencies committed to ending sexual violence. They are bringing the prevention of child sexual abuse to the core agenda of both policymakers and community members in Minnesota by developing communications strategies that link the prevention of child sexual abuse with the prevention of sexual victimization and perpetration more broadly; establishing a work group that will serve as the statewide arbiter of public policy initiatives related to child sexual abuse prevention; and mobilizing a broad range of professionals, Voices of Experience and the broader community through Demand the Change for Children.

 

New Mexico

Tewa Women United (Espanola, NM) http://tewawomenunited.org/

Tewa Woman United is a collective inter-tribal women’s voice in the Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico. The mission of TWU is to provide safe spaces of Indigenous women to uncover the power, strength and skills they possess to become positive forces for social change in their families and communities. V.O.I.C.E.S. (Valuing Our Integrity with Courage, Empowerment, and Support) is a culturally based response to sexual violence and other trauma related to sexual violence in the diverse communities located in Northern New Mexico primarily, Northern Santa Fe and Rio Arriba Counties and the Pueblos and Tribal Nations located in New Mexico.

 

New York

CONNECT (NYC)

http://www.connectnyc.org/

CONNECT is dedicated to preventing interpersonal violence and promoting gender justice through legal empowerment, grassroots mobilization and transformative education. They are creating New York City’s first faith-based working group on child sexual abuse prevention and developing an organizing and advocacy blueprint to guide a grassroots faith-based movement to end child sexual abuse.

 

Kingsbridge Heights Community Center http://www.khcc-nyc.org/

KHCC’s mission is to build on the strengths of residents in our diverse community, enabling them to effect change and improve the quality of their own lives and those of their families and their community. They are expanding their child sexual abuse program to include survivor advocacy and systems change, and are recruiting, training and supporting survivor advocates to work as partners in a campaign to increase funding for abuse prevention and treatment in New York City.

 

NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault http://www.svfreenyc.org/

The mission of the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault is to build the capacity of communities, organizations, and institutions to advance the right to live free from sexual violence and reduce the harm it causes individuals, families, and society.

 

Teach Our Children (NYC) http://www.teachourchildrenny.com/

Teach Our Children is dedicated to educating, empowering and equipping mothers with the knowledge, skills and support they need to break the cycle of sexual abuse. We believe lasting change can occur, but will only happen when it is implemented by those from within the community, not when it is imposed from without.

 

North Carolina

Lucille Clifton Shapeshifter Survival School (Durham, NC) http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/category/shapeshifting/

In honor of the great poet Lucille Clifton, who was also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, a mother, an artist and self-identified Amazon warrior through her poetry, the Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter Survival School is especially designed for families that are committed to ending childhood sexual abuse and all forms of gendered violence. Informed by Generation 5 and the regional plan of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative, the ShapeShifter Survival School is part of a holistic process of ending child sexual abuse by creating healing community.

 

Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina (Raleigh, NC)

Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina works to prevent child abuse and neglect and serves as the lead partner of the North Carolina Coalition on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention. They work with policymakers, service providers and community members to develop a comprehensive, evidencebased plan to prevent child sexual abuse in North Carolina by creating a comprehensive statewide plan based on a needs assessment, field scan, stakeholder meetings and national research on evidence-based practices.

 

UBUNTU (Durham, NC)

http://iambecauseweare.wordpress.com/

UBUNTU is Women of Color and Survivor-led. This means that we emphasize people most affected by sexual violence as public representatives of the group (i.e., media, mobilizations, public meetings, events, etc.), and in the group’s internal structure and processes (membership/composition, roles, and decision-making). Our goals are to facilitate dialogue, education, support, and accountability for survivors of sexual violence and to facilitate a systemic transformation of our communities until the day that sexual violence does not occur.

 

Oregon

Oregon Advocates and Survivors in Service (OAASIS) http://oaasisoregon.org/ 

OAASIS exists to support sexual abuse survivors and prevent future abuse. We are an alliance of survivors and advocates committed to employing our personal and collective strengths, energies, and experiences to advocate and support sexual abuse survivors, educate others and to eliminate future abuse.

 

Pennsylvania

Philly Survivor Support Collective http://phillysurvivorsupportcollective.wordpress.com/

Our collective supports survivors of sexual assault in directing their own healing. We offer alternatives to the legal system for survivors seeking justice and safety. We also work to transform our communities to end sexual violence.

 

Samaritan Counseling Center http://www.scclanc.org/ 

The Samaritan Counseling Center is an accredited, interfaith counseling center that fosters hope and healing through professional counseling, consultation and education while respecting and integrating personal and spiritual values. It serves a client population from Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks, York and other counties in Pennsylvania.

 

Washington

For Crying Out Loud  http://forcryingoutloud206.wordpress.com/   

For Crying Outloud was born in mid-June of 2008, as a response to a late winter and spring of rapes in the intersecting diy and punk communities of Seattle. As a group we seek to facilitate the healing and empowerment of survivors of sexual trauma. We are here for survivors to help them meet their unique needs, to listen, to provide alternatives to mainstream responses to sexual assault. As survivors and allies we do this to restore and create joy within our communities.