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    Popular! 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: 8923 - Rate This | Details
    Popular! 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: 6103 - Rate This | Details
    Popular! AMSOSA (Adult Male Survivors Of Sexual Abuse
    AMSOSA offers two support groups, providing a unique therapy experience to non offending adult male survivors, who were either sexually abused as a child or adult. We offer you an opportunity to focus on the ability to heal and recover, by dealing with 1/3rd of your past, 1/3rd of your present, and 1/3rd of your future, covering aspects of the sexual abuse you suffered, yet focusing on the strength and courage you possess, and leaving the past where it belongs.
    Preview Website - 5-Apr-2009 - Hits: 1189 - Rate This | Details
    Popular! 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: 4566 - Rate This | Details
    Popular! Fort Refuge 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: 1311 - Rate This | Details
    Popular! 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: 2538 - Rate This | Details
    Popular! Pandora's Project Top Rated
    Pandora's Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information, support, and resources to survivors of rape and sexual abuse and their friends and family. We have been devoted to recovery and healing since 1999.
    Preview Website - 4-Oct-2006 - Hits: 1624 - Rate This | Details
    Popular! Surviving to Thriving
    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: 1065 - Rate This | Details
    Acquaintance Rape: A Matter of Consent by Dr. Amy Menna
    The title of this article is "Acquaintance Rape: A Matter of Consent" by Dr. Amy Menna. Excerpt: Rape. It is a powerful word for a power hungry act. It breeds fear and in many cases, it breeds silence. It is important that this silence be broken, and survivors be heard. By doing so, we break the grasp that rape has upon so many. The aftermath can be immense. The journey to heal may be terrifying; the steps, long and tedious. By building a bridge of awareness and empowerment, woman and men who have experienced rape can be healed and heard
    Preview Website - 24-Feb-2010 - Hits: 254 - Rate This | Details
    Confessions of a Serial Insomniac Top Rated
    A survivor of childhood sexual abuse and abandonment candidly discusses her life in therapy for borderline personality disorder and complex PTSD with psychotic and dissociative features, major depression and social anxiety. Searingly honest, tragically witty and with an engaging, intelligent writing style, this is an award-winning and popular blog that anyone with any connection to mental illness should be able to enjoy.
    Preview Website - 14-Jun-2010 - Hits: 567 - Rate This | Details
    Door of Hope 4 Teens
    Counseling services for teens and young adult provided at no charge via: e-mail, hope line, chats on aim and monthly meetings. You are not alone...we understand and want you to discover freedom and recovery.
    Preview Website - 17-Jun-2009 - Hits: 434 - 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: 944 - 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: 835 - 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: 601 - 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: 139 - 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: 135 - 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: 152 - 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: 119 - 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: 293 - 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: 463 - Rate This | Details
    Women's Law Top Rated
    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: 538 - Rate This | Details


 

 

 


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