Resources

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

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/

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

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