RECOVERY AND SUPPORT

SAST | Recovering from Sexual Assault is a Process | Additional Support for Survivors | Support for the Significant Other/Secondary Survivor

Resources

Books and Readings

Sexual Assault
The Rape Recovery Handbook: Step-by-Step Help for Survivors of Sexual Assault – Aphrodite Matsakis

Quest for Respect: A Healing Guide for Survivors of Rape – Linda Braswell

Beyond Our Control: Restructuring Your Life After Sexual Assault – Leila Ray Summerfield

Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor's Journal - Migael Scherer

Voices of Courage A book by twelve survivors of sexual assault - edited by Mike Domitrz

UW-Madison student survivor stories about dating violence.
http://www.uhs.wisc.edu/docs/raising_voices.pdf

The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms – Mary Beth Williams and Soili Poijula

Sexual Abuse
Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse - Ellen Bass & Laura Davis.

The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse - Wendy Malz

Healing the Trauma of Abuse: A Woman's Workbook by Mary Ellen Copeland and Maxine Harris

The Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Childhood Sexual Abuse by Staci Haines

It Happened to Me: A Teen's Guide to Overcoming Sexual Abuse by William Lee Carter

The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Women and Men survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse - Laura Davis

Allies in Healing: When the Person you Love was Sexually Abused as a Child, For family, friends, and partners of survivors – Laura Davis

Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse - Mike Lew

Websites

http://onestudent.org/ One Student provides students and their allies with programs,
resources, and opportunities to address sexual violence.

http://www.rainn.org/get-information/links
Find other organizations working to end sexual violence.

http://www.pandorasproject.org/index.html
Pandora's Project offers a message board and chat room, free lending library, and numerous articles and resources. They welcome all survivors of sexual violence. Has links to handouts on healthy sexuality after sexual assault, as well as many other issues concerning sexual assault.

http://www.aftersilence.org/index.php
After Silence is designed to help victims become survivors, and communicate in the recovery of sexual violence. Their mission is to support, empower, validate, and educate survivors, as well as their families and supporters. The core of their organization is a support group, message board, and chat room where victims and survivors come together online in a mutually supportive and safe environment.

http:www.healthysex.com Wesbsite committed to promoting healthy sexuality, with particular attention to survivors of sexual abuse.

Information from State and National Organizations

Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault http://www.mncasa.org/

Minnesota Violence Against Women http://www.vaw.umn.edu/

Feminist Majority Foundation/Sexual Assault Resources http://www.feminist.org/911/assaultlinks.html

National Sexual Violence Resource Center http://www.nsvrc.org/

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence http://www.ncadv.org/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/SV/default.htm

Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network: The nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. http://www.rainn.org/

Involvement in Prevention Education and Action

Men Can Stop Rape, Inc. (MCSR) is an international organization that mobilizes men to use their strength for creating cultures free from violence, especially men’s violence against women. http://www.mencanstoprape.org/index.htm

PAVE Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment is a national, grassroots nonprofit. PAVE uses education and action to shatter the silence of sexual and domestic violence. http://pavingtheway.net/

Date Safe Project provides strong and positive voices for discussing sexual assault awareness, healthy dating, and specifically addressing consent.http://www.thedatesafeproject.org/

A Long Walk Home is an organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performance arts to document, to educate and to bring about social change and healing from trauma. http://www.alongwalkhome.org/

Clothesline Project was created to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women. http://www.clotheslineproject.org/

Sexual Offense Services respond to the problems of sexual violence by providing crisis intervention, prevention, and education to increase community awareness of sexual violence in order to create a more supportive environment for victims. Become a trained advocate. http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/ph/yas/sos.htm

Additional Support For Survivors

African American Women Survivors http://www.lorirobinson.com/

South Asian Women Survivors http://www.narika.org/

Asian and Pacific Islander Survivors http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/default.htm

Latino Survivors http://www.arte-sana.com/

Survivors with Disabilities http://www.advocateweb.org/hope/sexualviolencedisab.asp

Lesbian and Gay Survivors:

http://www.sfrcc.org/same_gender.html

http://www.exjws.net/sexabuse/gaysurvivors.htm

Transgender Survivors http://www.forge-forward.org/handouts/TransDV-SA.pdf

Male Survivors http://www.mencanstoprape.org/info-url2699/info-url_list.htm?section=Resources%20for%20Male%20Survivors