L i n k s Survivor Advocacy Organisations
Interactive Survivor Support Forums
Some Favourite Professional Resource Sites
Some Other Exceptional Websites
(please email me to add your own favourites)
A search engine of social work related links. |
A new comprehensive Self-Help Search Engine with many thousands of trauma/abuse/therapy etc links. Specific field search engines can potentially eliminate many hundreds of irrelevant search results (such as stroke trauma links from a WWW.GOOGLE.COM search on "trauma"). |
Survivor Advocacy Organisations:
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Legislative and educational information on physical, sexual and emotional child abuse, incest, rape and domestic violence; Headquarters for grassroots activism on child abuse-related issues; Resources for child protection, abuse prevention and education, and reporting abuse; Links to U.S.Congress, House of Representatives, Senate, state legislatures, pending bills, legislation and law codes. |
AdvocateWeb - Sexual and Emotional Exploitation of Clients by Trusted Helping Professionals |
Extensive resources and interactive forum & chat provided for clients who have been sexually exploited or in other ways abused by trusted helping professionals. Also for victim advocates and supporters including professionals. |
AMCHAAMCHA is a non-profit organization (registered Amuta in Israel) that reaches out to all Holocaust survivors: Those who experienced the horrors of the Shoah as adults; 'child survivors' who were robbed of their youth by the atrocities of World War II, and members of the second generation, children of survivors, profoundly affected throughout their lives by events they can only imagine. |
ASAR(C) facilitates self-help support to victims and survivors of the trauma of child sexual abuse and/or adult sexual assault. It has a database of over 200 articles and publications relating to investigation, treatment, court, references, and support of survivors of sexual abuse/assault. |
APSAC - The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children |
APSAC's mission is to ensure that everyone affected by child maltreatment receives the best possible professional response. |
ASCA - Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse |
ASCA is an Australian charity which advocates for all survivors of abuse, men, women and children who are wanting to heal from the effects of their abuse. ASCA also welcomes parents, partners and those who care to join ASCA to help advocate for changes in societal attitudes towards the issue of child abuse. ASCA is making a fundamental difference in raising awareness within Australian society about the prevalence and effects of childhood abuse. |
Australians Against Child Abuse |
Australians Against Child Abuse Ltd. is a national non-government non-profit organisation advocating for the prevention of child abuse, and national co-ordination of legislation, services and protocols. AACA aims to provideongoing treatment, counselling and support for abused children and their non-offending caregivers, and to research and develop strategies for prevention of child abuse. |
Child Abuse Prevention Network |
Resources, research updates, and networking for child abuse prevention professionals. |
Child Advocacy PetitionA petition calling for the abolition of legislation which permits the corporal punishment of children |
Clergy Sexual Abuse in Australia |
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Freedom of Thought FoundationFOTF is a special project of the Gandhi Peace Centre Inc., a non-profit foundation dedicated to education, networking, identify a variety of symptoms which have resulted from trauma-based programming and EM targeting, and exploring new technologies and methods which inhibit free thought -- propaganda, indoctrination, thought reform, brainwashing, and the covert psychological operations of "national security" states. |
Mental Health Rights |
A list of advocacy links for consumers of mental health services at the Not Victims website. |
MenWeb - Men's Issues: Male Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors |
Advocacy, resources and interactive forums for male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. |
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information |
A US resource for professionals providing information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. and related child welfare issues. |
Natural Child Project |
Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task. (The natural Child Project Mission Statement) |
New Hope Healing Institute |
The mission of New Hope Healing Institute is to provide individualized and group support, information, education and intervention to adult survivors of abuse & sexual trauma. |
Project NoSpank |
Project NoSpank "aims to equip readers with an effective weapon of defense against the pervasive, primitive myth that by making children feel worse we cause them to behave better."... "If you believe that punishment corrects bad behavior and promotes good behavior, then you will not be pleased with what you read here." |
Refocus (post-cult support) |
reFOCUS is a network of referral and support for former members of closed, high demand groups, relationships or cults. It aims to provide connections between people in recovery, by linking them up with available resources including other former members, support groups, rehab facilities, and mental health professionals. |
Ritual Abuse Survivors and Supporters, Australia |
Ritual Abuse Survivors and Supporters, Australia includes informative pages which have been written by David Free, an Australian long term ritual abuse survivor. He has done extensive public education on the issue including via national television. The pages provide education for the general public as well as support and resources for survivors of ritual abuse and their supporters. This website has a focus on the Australian situation. |
SADV Survivors Against Domestic Violence |
Survivors Against Domestic Violence (SADV) provides resources and referrals to help combat this hidden crime. SADV promotes the idea that all victims can become survivors and there can be an end to Domestic Violence. |
S.A.V.E |
Survivors And Victims Empowered aims to help prevent the criminal neglect and physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children by raising public awareness and by offering and implementing positive solutions. It also provides a resource for mutual support for professionals and adult survivors. Includes a searchable data base.S.M.A.R.T. Co-ordinates annual conferences for survivors of ritual abuse and a bi-monthly On-Line Newsletter. |
Survivors UK Home Page |
For over ten years, Survivors UK has been offering help and support to adult male victims of sexual abuse and rape. |
The Healing Woman Home Page |
The Healing Woman Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing recovery resources for women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The foundation publishes a bi-monthly, 24-page newsletter covering many aspects of recovery, and including self-help articles, interviews, research reports, survivors' writings, poetry, book reviews, and resource listings. |
The Purple Ribbon Project |
"The Purple Ribbon Project (PRP) is a non-profit education and awareness effort dedicated to reducing violence in our society, our communities, our schools, and most importantly, our homes." |
Therapy Abuse |
Includes an excellent pamphlet from the Boston Association to Stop Treatment Abuse |
Veritas Programming |
"The publishing industry is no longer giving voice to survivors' points of view. Veritas Programming will continue to do so." |
Voices In Action, Inc. |
V.O.I.C.E.S. IN ACTION (Victims of Incest Can Emerge Survivors) is an international non-profit organization providing assistance to victims of incest and child sexual abuse and generating public awareness of the prevalence of incest. |
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Interactive Survivor Support Forums:
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Interactive support is provided for survivors of child or adult sexual abuse and their supporters, through 32 web forums, 8 chat rooms and email lists. Forums specifically for male survivors are included here. This is a very large and fast-growing site with 250 pages of resources, including a book section. |
Healing Hopes |
For dissociative survivors, their SO's and other supporters. |
More Than ConquerorsMTC is a series of online web and e-mail forums for survivors of ritual abuse, SRA, Mind Control, and/or those facing a dissociative condition. MTC provides peer group support for survivors and their significant others online. |
This is the most active survivor site I know of, with typically several hundred posts each day across the many different forums. Mosaic Minds is for any dissociative survivors and their supporters, and is moderated by an experienced team of dedicated volunteers. It also has an excellent resource section. |
Rainbow HopeOnline support group for lesbian survivors of abuse and their partners. |
A large UK interactive forum for adult survivors of sexual abuse. |
SOSA Message Boards |
For survivors of spiritual abuse. |
SurvivorshipResponsibly moderated mutual support forums for survivors of Ritual Abuse and Mind Control. The forums are for members only and are password protected. There is also a separate password protected board for professional members who work with survivors of ritualistic abuse as well as extensive resources on recovery from ritualistic abuse, mind control and the aftermath of torture which are available for public access. |
TSF is for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and is one of the safest survivor forum I know of in terms of it's history of group dynamics and conflict resolution. There is a general discussion/sharing forum (The Castle Garden), a forum for more triggering topics (The Castle Tower), a forum about therapy experiences (The Castle Study), a poetry/creativity forum (The Sky Dome) and a lils/inner child forum (The Castle Playroom), |
The Wounded Healer Journal |
The many forums at TWHJ are controlled by Linda Chapman. Forums are for childhood abuse survivors in general and include many specific topic forums such as PTSD, SRA, DID, Substance Abuse Recovery, and areas of special interest including dreams, therapy, clergy abuse and holistic healing. Please note that Linda Chapman has recently prohibited any exchange of email or home page urls. |
Transformations! |
Transformations has a safe and supportive history, and has been gradually becoming more widely known. |
WeRMany Forums |
Another site for those with dissociative conditions which emphasises the normality of the dissociative identity response for many rather than assuming it a "disorder". There is a related chat channel #WeRMany on mirc which is now password-protected. |
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