National Resources
- Sexual Assault
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Stalking
- Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Harassment
- Sexual Health
- Education and Prevention
Sexual Assault
The New York City Anti-Violence Project
empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. AVP's strengths include supporting survivors of violence and organizing communities around violence prevention, leadership and access at the local and national levels, credibility with community and funder circles, and robust finances and human resources.
My Body Back
http://www.mybodybackproject.com/about/
works with women who have experienced sexual violence, regarding their physicality. The project started in August 2014, and supports women who have experienced rape or sexual assault to love and care for their bodies again.
Male Survivor
is committed to preventing, healing, and eliminating all forms of sexual victimization of boys and men through support, treatment, research, education, advocacy, and activism.
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
provides leadership in preventing and responding to sexual violence through collaboration, sharing and creating resources, and promoting research.
NotAlone.gov
(Resources & materials now available on ChangingOurCampus.org)
https://changingourcampus.org/
includes information for students, schools, and anyone interested in finding resources on how to respond to and prevent sexual assault.
PreventConnect
http://www.preventconnect.org/
is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The goal of PreventConnect is to advance the primary prevention of sexual assault and relationship violence by building a community of practice among people who are engaged in such efforts. PreventConnect also builds the capacity of local, state, territorial, national and tribal agencies and organizations to develop, implement and evaluate effective prevention initiatives.
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. In addition to operating a nationwide hotline, RAINN offers a National Sexual Assault OnlineHotline, the nation's first secure web-based hotline that provides live and completely confidential help to victims through an interface as intuitive as instant messaging.
Intimate Partner Violence
Love is Respect
https://www.loveisrespect.org/
Love is Respect’s mission is to engage, educate and empower young people to prevent and end abusive relationships. Highly-trained peer advocates offer support, information and advocacy to young people who have questions or concerns about their dating relationships. They also provide information and support to concerned friends and family members, teachers, counselors, service providers and members of law enforcement. Free and confidential phone, live chat and texting services are available 24/7/365.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
operates around the clock, seven days a week, confidential and free of cost, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides lifesaving tools and immediate support to enable victims to find safety and live lives free of abuse. Callers to the Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) can expect highly trained experienced advocates to offer compassionate support, crisis intervention information and referral services in over 170 languages.
National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)
works to make domestic violence a national priority; change the way communities respond to domestic violence; and strengthen efforts against intimate partner violence at every level of government.
Stalking
The Stalking Resource Center
https://victimsofcrime.org/our-programs/past-programs/stalking-resource-center
from the National Center for Victims of Crimes offers extensive information for victims of stalking.
Working to Halt Online Abuse (WHOA)
is a volunteer organization founded in 1997 to fight online harassment through education of the general public, education of law enforcement personnel, and empowerment of victims. The mission of WHOA is to educate the Internet community about online harassment, empower victims of harassment, and formulate voluntary policies that systems administrators can adopt in order to create harassment-free environments.
Childhood Sexual Abuse
1in6
helps men who have had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences in childhood live healthier, happier lives.
Generation FIVE
http://www.generationfive.org/
The mission of generationFIVE is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations.
Harassment
Hollaback
is a non-profit movement to end street harassment, powered by local activists in 92 cities and 32 countries. They work together to better understand street harassment, to ignite public conversations, and to develop innovative strategies to ensure equal access to public spaces.
Founded in 2009 as Holla Back DC!, Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS) has evolved from a blog to a dynamic organization that mobilizes the community to end public sexual harassment and assault in the DC metropolitan area. It does this through both online and offline activism, including workshops, innovative direct services, policy advocacy, and community outreach.
Breakthrough USA's
mission is to prevent violence against women and girls by transforming the norms and cultures that enable it. They partner with individuals and communities through innovative social and multimedia campaigns and strategic agenda-setting with key stakeholders.
Stop Street Harassment
https://www.stopstreetharassment.org/
Catcalls, sexually explicit comments, sexist remarks, homophobic slurs, groping, leering, stalking, flashing, and assault. Most women and some men will face gender-based street harassment by strangers in their life. Street harassment limits people's mobility and access to public spaces. It is a form of gender violence and it's a human rights violation.
Sexual Health
The Kinsey Institute
https://www.kinseyinstitute.org/
at Indiana University works towards advancing sexual health and knowledge worldwide. For over 60 years, the institute has been a trusted source for investigating and informing the world about critical issues in sex, gender and reproduction. Today the Institute investigates sexual behavior and sexual health, and carries out its mission through an active research program, library and art collections, research publications, events, resources for researchers and the public, Kinsey Confidential website, graduate education, as well as news, press releases, and media coverage.
Laci Green
https://www.youtube.com/user/lacigreen
Laci Green is a sex education activist with a YouTube channel (home of Sex Plus) started in response to what she believes to be a nationwide failure to provide comprehensive sex education and to adopt healthy, realistic attitudes about sexuality.
Planned Parenthood
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
For nearly 100 years, Planned Parenthood has promoted a commonsense approach to women’s health and well-being, based on respect for each individual’s right to make informed, independent decisions about health, sex, and family planning.
Scarleteen
Scarleteen is an independent, grassroots sexuality education and support organization and website providing online static content, interactive services, referrals, other outreach, and mentoring and leadership. Their mission is built on a foundation of equality, respect, dignity, fairness, consent, liberty, freedom of thought and expression and other core human rights.
SexEd Library
SexEd Library is brought to you by SIECUS (the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States), a highly acclaimed resource for educators, counselors, administrators, and health professionals seeking the latest in human sexuality research, lesson plans, and professional development opportunities. We’ve analyzed hundreds of lesson plans from multiple sources to offer easy access to the very best on such topics as sexual and reproductive health, puberty, abstinence, relationships, sexual orientation, body image, self-esteem, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, unintended pregnancy, and more.
Education and Prevention
A Long Walk Home
Founded in 2003, A Long Walk Home, Inc. (ALWH) is a Chicago-based national non-profit that uses art to educate, inspire, and mobilize young people to end violence against girls and women. ALWH is the only organization in the country that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against women and girls. The vision of Scheherazade Tillet, a professional art therapist and rape crisis counselor, and Salamishah Tillet, an Ivy-League feminist professor, ALWH partners with rape crisis centers, universities, high schools, and state coalitions to provide innovative and inclusive programs for underserved communities. Through national and local programs, multimedia performances, summer and after school youth institutes, campus trainings and workshops, ALWH has educated over 100,000 survivors and their allies to build safe communities and end gender-based violence.
The Brown Boi Project
http://www.brownboiproject.org/
The Brown Boi Project is a community of masculine of center women, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice.
INCITE
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.
Force: Upsetting Rape Culture
https://www.upsettingrapeculture.com/
Force: Upsetting Rape Culture is a creative activist collaboration to upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. They envision a world where sex is empowering and pleasurable rather than coercive and violent. To promote this needed conversation, FORCE creates art actions to generate media attention and get millions of people talking.
Futures without Violence
https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/
For more than 30 years, Futures Without Violence has been providing groundbreaking programs, policies, and campaigns that empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world. Striving to reach new audiences and transform social norms, they train professionals such as doctors, nurses, judges, and athletic coaches on improving responses to violence and abuse. They also work with advocates, policy makers, and others to build sustainable community leadership and educate people everywhere about the importance of respect and healthy relationships.
Men Can Stop Rape
Men Can Stop Rape works to institutionalize primary prevention of men’s violence against women through sustained initiatives that generate positive, measurable outcomes in populations throughout the world.
The National Secual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center's (NSVRC) Mission is to provide leadership in preventing and responding to sexual violence through collaboration, sharing and creating resources, and promoting research.
PreventConnect
http://www.preventconnect.org/
PreventConnect builds the capacity of local, state, territorial, national and tribal agencies and organizations to develop, implement and evaluate effective prevention initiatives addressing sexual assault and relationship violence. PreventConnect is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
Transgender Law Center
https://transgenderlawcenter.org/
Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. They envision a future where gender self-determination and authentic expression are seen as basic rights and matters of common human dignity.