From Sore to Soar

Ending Violence Against Humanity

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

• RAINN (800-6560-HOPE)

  • Website: https://www.rainn.org

  • Description: 24/7 National Sexual Assault Hotline, resources

• INHOPE

  • Website: https://www.inhope.org

  • Description: Hotlines around the world that operate in all EU member states, Russia, South Africa, North & South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Supportive Advosources

• 1 in 6

  • Website: Https://1in6.org

  • Description: Helps men who have had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences and also supporting family, friends, partners and providers with resources

• Academy on Health and Violence

  • Website: http://avahealth.org

  • Description: Integrates finding into society to advances health education and research in the recognition, treatment and prevention of health effects of violence and abuse

• Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (APIGBV Institute:)

  • Website: Http://api-gbv.org

  • Description: A world free of gender-based violence with equal opportunities for all to thrive.

• Academy on Violence and Abuse

  • Website: https://www.avahealth.org

  • Description: Advances health education and research through recognition, treatment, and prevention of health effects between violence, abuse and health in order to deliver compassionate quality of care in society

• American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

  • APSAC Website: https://www.apsac.org

  • Description: Improve society’s response to the abuse and neglect of its children, meeting the needs of maltreated children and families

• Battered Women’s Justice Project

  • Website: https://www.bwjp.org

  • Description: Ensure effective and just response to victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence and the child exposed to this violence

• CDC Violence Prevention:

  • Website: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/index.html

  • Description: Provides information on intimate partner violence, rape, and sexual trafficking

• Childhelp.org

  • Website: Childhelp.org

  • Description: Formally known as Children’s Village USA, Childhelp assists victims of child abuse, neglect and at-risk children, adult survivors, distressed parents, concerned relatives, mandated reporters nationally and internationally

• Domesticshelters.org

  • Website: https://www.domesticshelters.org

  • Description: Discusses types of abuse, personal accounts, lessons, emergency shelters

• Embracing Project

  • Website: https://theembracingproject.org

  • Description: Peace and healing for youth survivors of violence, sexual exploitation, and sex trafficking, through the development of specialized programs, trauma-informed care, and unconditional support. Features the Purple W.I.N.G.S mentoring program

• The Crisis Center, Inc.

  • Website: https://thecrisiscenterinc.org

  • Description: Offers support groups, survivor connections, assistance with protection orders, accompaniment at court hearings, referrals, community education and training in Kansas

• ECPAT

  • Website: https://ecpat.org

  • Description: Focuses on ending the sexual exploitation of children, with a membership of 122 civil society organizations in 104 countries.

• Futures Against Violence

  • Website: http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org

  • Description: Transforming social norms, 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.

• Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence 

  • Website: https://gcadv.org

  • Description: Georgia's statewide domestic violence resource center, empowering survivors, educating the public, advocating for public policy.

• Georgia Commission on Family Violence 

  • Website: https://gcfv.georgia.gov

  • Description: coordinated community response to address family violence.

• Incite: Women of Color Against Violence:

  • Website: https://incite-national.org

  • Description: A network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities.

• * I Support the Girls (ISTG)

  • Website: https://isupportthegirls.org/

  • Description: DASH Kit for women and individuals who fled abusive relationships

• Joyful heart foundation

  • Website: https://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org

  • Description: Respond to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse to support survivors’ healing. Ending the backlog program, and finding untested rape kits. The I am evidence documentary

• Manavi

  • Website: www.manavi.org

  • Description: addresses the unmet needs of South Asian women affected by violence, uses a unique blend of culturally specific support services and intervention methods through Western advocacy practices and linguistically traditional techniques to empower violence against women

• National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse

  • Website: (NHCVA): http://nhcva.org/

  • Description Comprised of health organizations, dedicated to reducing and addressing the health consequences of violence, in all forms, and abuse

• The National Offices of Violence Prevention Network

  • Website: http://preventviolence.net

  • Description: Better understands violence by collecting and centralizing data from violent deaths obtained from sources including medical examiners, coroners, law enforcement, and vital statistics.

• $ U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Victims of Crime

  • Website: www.justice.gov

  • Description: Diverse programs that benefit victims of crime.

  • Features: Terrorism and International Victims Assistance Services programs including the Crime Victim Assistance Emergency Fund, The International Terrorist Victims Expense Reimbursement Program, the Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program

• National Sexual Violence Resource Center

  • Website: https://www.nsvrc.org

  • Description: Preventing and responding to sexual violence through resources for survivors, support networks, professionals, media and press, events, graphics, etc.

• Partnership Against Domestic Violence

  • Website: https://www.padv.org

  • Description: PADV works to end the crime of intimate partner violence and empower its survivors.

• Peace Over Violence

  • Website: http://www.peaceoverviolence.org

  • Description: Dedicated to the elimination of sexual and domestic violence and all forms of interpersonal violence in Los Angeles, CA and beyond.

• Square One

  • Website: https://squareonegjm.com/

  • Description: Grassroot efforts to expand emergency shelters, case management services, and agency outreach

• Steps to End Domestic Violence

  • Website: https://www.stepsvt.org

  • Description: To assist the transition to a safe, independent life for those that have been affected physically, emotionally, sexually, or economically by domestic violence abuse and to promote, a culture that fosters justice, equality, and safety

• Together for Girls

  • Website: https://www.togetherforgirls.org

  • Description: A global partnership bringing together more than 20 national governments, civil society organizations, UN entities, development partners, and the private sector working to advocate for the end of violence, particularly sexual violence, improving violence prevention, healing, and justice in order to create a safer world for children and adolescents, woman and girls.

• W.O.M.A.N., INC.

  • Website: http://www.womaninc.org

  • Description: Supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value-rich networks designed to address intersections of violence.

• Women’s Habitat

  • Website: https://womenshabitat.ca

  • Description: safe refuge, counseling, support, and advocacy for women and their children who are fleeing violence, surviving poverty

Campaigns

• No more Campaign

  • Website: http://nomore.org

  • Description: Global Campaign to end domestic violence and sexual assault by increasing awareness, inspiring action, and fueling change to break down stigma, silence, and shame

References

• Myers, d. (1995). Eliminating the battering of women by men: some considerations for behavior analysis. 28. 493-507.

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