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Abused Empowered Survive Thrive ^{Top Rated}
This large site offers support for survivors of sexual abuse either as a child or adult, with related subjects such as date rape, male rape, panic attack, eating disorders, and self-harm. A large UK-based site offering chat rooms, over 40 forums, and information related to these topics.
Preview Website - 27-Oct-2003 - Hits: 4656 - Rate This | Details

Fort Refuge ^{New Top Rated}
Chat and Forums community with resources for abuse survivors. Child abuse, ritual abuse, sexual assault, rape and domestic violence are just some of what we have survived and are surviving. MPD/DID welcome.
Preview Website - 11-Jun-2008 - Hits: 11 - Rate This | Details

After Rape: Changing Faces/A Never Ending Love Story
This is a true story between the author and her boss's husband, who repeatedly sexually harasses by telephoning her constantly, and making visits to the office, threatening her to remain silent. As she continues to decline his request for sexual favors, he is determined to draw a wedge between her boss, implying that she's treating him badly, by not giving in to his sexual request and threatens her to remain silent.

She finds herself distraught, as he consistently, toys with her emotionally, until she finds herself lost and has a nervous breakdown at work. Committed to the psychiatric unit, his wife takes her personal possessions and accompanies her to the hospital. During her stay, she is diagnosed with depression and believes with medication she can cope with the situation better and looks forward to returning home to her children.

As she returns home, she realizes she does not have her key, so, she climbs through a window. That day changes her life forever! Like a animal stalking its prey, he waits and waits for an opportunity and eventually rapes her!

“Who will believe you?”, he whispers. The threats of his voice, “Don’t tell....!”

As a single parent, raising two children, the author writes the pages as she copes with silence; that changed her life forever! Part One.
Preview Website - 17-Aug-2004 - Hits: 475 - Rate This | Details

After Silence
After Silence, a community designed to help survivors communicate in the recovery of rape, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. Welcome to After Silence, a non-profit organization, message board, and chat room for rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse survivors. You are not alone, you are not broken, and you can heal. Our organization is designed to help victims become survivors, and communicate in the recovery of sexual violence. Our mission is to support, empower, validate, and educate survivors, as well as their families and supporters. The core of our organization is a support group, message board, and chat room where victims and survivors come together online in a mutually supportive and safe environment.
Preview Website - 8-Oct-2006 - Hits: 893 - Rate This | Details

alt.support.rape-survivors ^{Top Rated}
A newsgroup for rape survivors.
Preview Website - 25-Feb-2000 - Hits: 726 - Rate This | Details

End All the Pain ^{Top Rated}
This site provides an interactive and encouraging place where you can discover how to overcome whatever you are struggling with by helping you understand and come to the root of the problem. You will then be able to go forward, living the life intended for you! Offering awareness, information and support, the topics covered on this site include abuse, rape, self-injury, anorexia, bulimia, general mental disorders and more.
Preview Website - 30-Jan-2004 - Hits: 676 - Rate This | Details

Escaping Hades ^{Top Rated}
Escaping Hades is a rape and sexual abuse survivor's site. This site contains the stories of over 550 survivors of rape, sexual abuse, and incest. It also includes resources to find the help you need. Escaping Hades is a rape and sexual abuse survivor's site. This site contains the stories of over 500 survivors of rape, sexual abuse and incest, including my own, as well as resources to find the help you need. If you are a survivor, please stay safe while visiting Escaping Hades, as many of the pages can be triggering. If you are here because someone you love is a survivor, I thank you for trying to understand and help your loved one. The road to healing is terribly difficult, but we will get there together.
Preview Website - 10-Oct-2006 - Hits: 667 - Rate This | Details

Financial Assistance: Crime Victim Compensation
Crime victim compensation is a government program to reimburse victims of violent crimes- such as assault, homicide, rape, and, in some states, burglary - as well as their families for many of their out-of-pocket expenses. Every state has a crime victim compensation program.
Preview Website - 5-Oct-2006 - Hits: 40 - Rate This | Details

For Men Only: For Male Survivors of Sexual Assault
An article for male survivors of sexual assault. It involves many different ways to react and myths vs. facts.
Preview Website - 10-Oct-2006 - Hits: 102 - Rate This | Details

Healing Minds ^{Top Rated}
This site is dedicated to survivors of abuse & sexual assault. Why I came to do this site... I have always wanted to create a site like this, wanting to help with other peoples recovery from abuse, and sexual assault. Being a survivor myself I wanted to dedicate this site to all the survivors out there. You will find links to my own personal support forums that I started for survivors of abuse as well as one directed at mental illness. On Healing Minds you will find information on abuse, PTSD, coping methods and healing; on this site I have posted numerous websites that I have found helpful with my recovery. I hope you enjoy Healing Minds. If you enjoy this site, let me know by signing my guestbook. If you have a website you may include it in the your entry as well. Keep coming back as there will be new sites, and information going up all the time. We are all survivors here, no matter what. We overcame the worse, now we heal, it's a long batter but know that no matter what each and everyone of you will get through this. Here is a survivor badge, for all of you survivors out there, feel free to grab it off my site.
Preview Website - 8-Feb-2006 - Hits: 429 - Rate This | Details

Hope For Healing.Org
Offering help to rape and abuse survivors via forums, chats, newsletter, information on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), domestic violence (DV) and more. Listserves for survivors, men and partners are also offered.
Preview Website - 19-Aug-2002 - Hits: 878 - Rate This | Details

Lola Greene Baldwin Foundation for Recovery
Do you need help to escape, survive, or recover from the life of prostitution and its long-term effects?

The Baldwin Foundation offers our skills, experience, and supportive services to help survivors:
• Leave the life of prostitution and build safer and happier lives for themselves and their children,
• Obtain any treatment needed to manage chemical dependency, medical, or mental health problems they have been left with,
• Understand the forces that brought them into prostitution, and
• Develop a positive identity as an ordinary person, as good as anyone else.

Preview Website - 5-Oct-2006 - Hits: 107 - Rate This | Details

National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization
An organization of diverse individuals committed through research, education, advocacy, and activism to the prevention, treatment and elimination of all forms of sexual victimization of boys and men.
Preview Website - 5-Jun-2001 - Hits: 746 - Rate This | Details

Pandora's Aquarium ^{Top Rated}
Pandora's Aquarium, a forum for rape and sexual abuse survivors. "Pandy's" community includes a message board, chat room, and blogging feature. Only registered members can view most of the posts on our board and join the chat room.

There are a number of private forums, some covering general topics and some for specific areas of healing, such as sexuality & relationships, eating disorders, spirituality, fitness & health, self-injury.

Pandy's community provides a space for researchers of books, TV shows, magazine articles, and academic papers, to contact survivors.

Male survivors have unique issues in healing and are provided with a private forum.
Preview Website - 10-Oct-2006 - Hits: 245 - Rate This | Details

Rape Crisis (UK)
This website aims to provide the basic information that survivors of sexual violence, friends and family need to access the services they need.
Preview Website - 6-Oct-2006 - Hits: 37 - Rate This | Details

RapeRecovery.com ^{Top Rated}
Emotional, spiritual, physical, and sexual recovery from rape. Information and referral for rape survivors and therapists specializing in the treatment of trauma.
Preview Website - 11-Apr-2002 - Hits: 505 - Rate This | Details

SOAR: Speaking Out About Rape
SOAR (Speaking Out About Rape) runs national awareness, education and prevention programs to empower survivors of sexual violence and enhance the public's understanding and acceptance of rape victims.

SOAR provides financial assistance to victims when other funds are not available or don't cover a certain expense (e.g., counseling, transportation, security systems, moving expenses, daily living expenses) and provides survivors and their families and friends with referrals for counseling, medical assistance, victims' rights information, legal assistance, advocacy, etc.
Preview Website - 4-Oct-2006 - Hits: 53 - Rate This | Details

STIGMA ^{Top Rated}
A support group for individuals conceived by rape or incest. STIGMA also provides support to women who have been pregnant by assault or are raising rape or incest conceived children.
Preview Website - 7-Oct-2006 - Hits: 63 - Rate This | Details

Surviving to Thriving ^{Top Rated}
A site for survivors of sexual violence to find information, healing and support. Surviving to Thriving-A site for sexual assault, abuse and rape survivors Welcome to Surviving to Thriving. This is a site for female and male survivors of sexual violence, including rape, attempted rape, sexual abuse and incest as well as the people who support them. In these pages, you will find my story and the stories of other rape and sexual assault survivors who have chosen to share theirs, as well as information, including pages on healing, medical and legal information for rape and sexual assault survivors, and sections for child sexual abuse and male survivors. If you are the survivor of sexual violence, you know how much how much pain it can cause and how it feels to be so terribly hurt. Please know that you are not alone and that healing is possible. I hope that you will find comfort and healing while exploring these pages. However, some of what is written here may be triggering, so please keep yourself safe. Since this site is a work in progress, please email me with your suggestions and comments.
Preview Website - 3-Oct-2002 - Hits: 561 - Rate This | Details

Take Back the News
Take Back the News projects include:
• provides outlets for rape survivors to publish their stories in their own words,
• tracks and archives media articles about rape on the Web,
• contacts editors and reporters regarding misrepresented or underrepresented issues of sexual assault in the media, and
• publishes educational materials to increase public awareness about sexual assault.


READ stories of rape survival that were not published in mainstream media.

SUBMIT your own story of surviving rape or sexual assault.

STAY CURRENT on media misrepresentations of rape.


Preview Website - 4-Oct-2006 - Hits: 55 - Rate This | Details

The Saferoom Project
The Saferoom Project provides peer support for survivors of sexual assault, and friends, family and partners of survivors. We host online chats, private forums and mailing lists from our website.
Preview Website - 10-Oct-2006 - Hits: 46 - Rate This | Details

The Voices and Faces Project ^{Top Rated}
The Voices and Faces Project is a survivor network giving a voice and face to rape survivors and is largely funded and staffed by survivors who have rejected the shame, invisibility and silence thrust upon them by the broader culture.

Compiling stories through The Voices and Faces Project permanent archive builds an ever-expanding and first-of-its-kind record of the impact of rape and abuse on individuals, families and communities, providing a valuable resource for advocates, policymakers and all who seek to better understand the long-term impact of rape and abuse.
Preview Website - 4-Oct-2006 - Hits: 45 - Rate This | Details

Triangle Forensic Psychologists, PC
In a world where psychology is considered a "soft" science, Triangle Forensic Psychologists strives to provide factual-based clarity to complex questions. Through use of the latest empirically validated testing instruments, in-depth diagnostic interviews, behavioral observations, and extensive record reviews, Triangle Forensic Psychologists generates fair, thorough, professional reports and expert testimony that are held in high regard by the legal and medical communities.
Preview Website - 26-May-2008 - Hits: 11 - Rate This | Details

VOICES in Action
VOICES In Action is an international organization providing assistance to adult and adolescent victims of child sexual abuse and sexual trauma. We help victims become survivors and create accurate public awareness of the prevalence of child sexual abuse, its impact, and ways in which it can be prevented or stopped through educational programs.
Preview Website - 5-Aug-2006 - Hits: 95 - Rate This | Details

Voices of Strength ^{Top Rated}
'VOICES of Strength' is an Audio Documentary for Rape and Sexual Abuse Survivors. My name is Haullie Free; I am the founder of this informative and inspiring CD and I invite you to journey with me on a quest for personal enlightenment and self validation, through the power of the human voice.
Preview Website - 8-Oct-2006 - Hits: 178 - Rate This | Details

Welcome to Barbados ^{Top Rated}
Inspired by Tori Amos, this is a sanctuary for survivors of any rape or sexual abuse: stranger rape, gang rape, acquaintance rape, date rape, same sex rape or abuse, ritual abuse, incest, molestation, and/or harassment. Read other survivors' stories. Connect with others in the Pandora's Aquarium message board and chat board. Welcome to Barbados!
Preview Website - 4-Oct-2006 - Hits: 397 - Rate This | Details

Women's Law
WomensLaw.org was founded in February 2000 by a group of lawyers, teachers, advocates, and web designers interested in seeing the power of the Internet work for more disadvantaged people and specifically for survivors of domestic violence. We pulled together our experiences and resources and launched this website in October 2001.WomensLaw.org changed its formal name from Women's Law Initiative in 2005. The Mission of WomensLaw.org is to provide easy-to-understand legal information and resources to women living with or escaping domestic violence or sexual assault. By reaching out through the Internet, we empower women and girls to lead independent lives, free from abuse. As you will see on these pages, the site publishes state-specific legal information for domestic violence. It also publishes information on getting help in your community. We also provide help through email, directly to women and advocates, throughout the U.S.
Preview Website - 3-Jun-2008 - Hits: 20 - Rate This | Details