Emergency Resources

The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)

RAINN provides live help for survivors sexual violence that is free, confidential and secure. Operation is 24 hours a day. Volunteers and staff at this call center are trained on issues surrounding sexual violence and can provide support and information about individual or group counseling, medical attention, reporting a crime to law enforcement as well as many other services.

Hotline/Online

RAINN Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
RAINN Online Chat

Medical & Legal Advocacy and Counseling

Locate the sexual assault crisis center nearest to you.

International Resources

International resources available here

Military Personnel

Safe Helpline services are provided by RAINN through a contract with the Department of Defense’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office — however, your information will remain confidential. RAINN will not share your name or any other personally identifying information with SAPRO or your chain of command.

FAQs and Other Information

Frequently Asked Questions From Survivors

On this page you will find information about the resources we provide and both the rationale and the research behind our mission and vision. We include information about what, in our perspective, constitutes an embodied approach to healing, how holistic healing practices differ from and also complement conventional health, wellness, and medical practices, exploring resilience and nonlinear healing, describing trauma-informed care, understanding the spectrum of sexual violence and sexual trauma, and more. For a summary of our services and information about our work, you are also welcome to download this pdf copy of our brochure.

Learn more here.

Frequently Asked Questions From Practitioners

Are you curious about joining The Breathe Network and interested in how aligning your practice with our organization might benefit your work? Would you like to learn more about our strategy to connect survivors across the country with sliding-scale, trauma-informed, holistic health and healing practitioners? Are you a conventional healthcare provider (medical doctor, dentist, physical therapist, etc.) who holds interest in bringing a more trauma-informed approach to your work?

We have compiled a list of questions from health and healing professionals that we have received with the most frequency. Read on to learn more about the application process, experience and education expectations, trauma training, and support we offer our to our members.

Learn more here.

Resources for Healing & Learning

How a person is impacted by sexual trauma can be very much connected to how other experiences of individual, collective, and historical trauma has accumulated in their body and psyche. This can include direct or intergenerational experiences and impacts of white supremacy, racism, colorism, heterosexism, ableism, classism, and cissexism. In truth, most survivors are handling the residue of a combination of multiple forms of trauma and oppression.

We encourage our community to recognize how sexual violence is interconnected with and compounded by other forms of harm. We invite you to look at the many other aspects of identity and life circumstances that influence vulnerability to sexual violence, how people (including first responders, advocates, and healers) respond to survivors, and how survivors are or are not able to access trusted and supportive systems of care.

There are an increasing number of organizations and practitioners who focus on ensuring healing for specific groups of survivors who have been under-resourced by mainstream health and healing institutions and providers. This includes trans survivors, male survivors, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color survivors, queer survivors, survivors with disabilities, undocumented survivors, incarcerated survivors, and more. Many of these organizations not only provide direct services, yet also training and education.

Below you will find an ever-growing list of resources that includes individuals and organizations whose work helps to provide historical and social context for the epidemic of sexual violence and how survivors are impacted, as well as resources to assist survivor communities in accessing healing, safety, and belonging.

Organizations

• Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services

• Black Women's Blueprint

• 1in6

• The Embodiment Institute

• Embodied Anti-Racist Education (Resmaa Menakem)

• Finding Freedom

• FORGE

• The Heal Project

• Healing Justice London

• Leaving Evidence (Mia Mingus)

• Male Survivor

• Mirror Memoirs

• National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP)

• The Nap Ministry

• The National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault

• OAASIS Oregon (Oregon Abuse Advocates and Survivors in Service)

• Protect Our Defenders

• RAINN: Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network

• The SASHA Center

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

• Sex Workers Outreach Project

• Showing Up for Racial Justice

• Somatic Experiencing Institute

• SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests)

• The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute

• The Voices and Faces Project

Articles, Books & Videos:

Articles

• Will Exercise, Meditation or Reiki Help if You Can’t Find a Therapist? - Andrea Atkins

• The Ethics of Touch: The Hands-on Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Professional, Safe and Enduring Practice - Ben Benjamin and Cherie M. Sohnen-Moe

• The Complexities of Self-Care After Sexual Assault - Molly Boeder Harris

• The Imprints of Sexual Trauma: How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Trigger Survivors - Molly Boeder Harris

• Practicing Embodied Boundaries - Molly Boeder Harris

• Black Women's Triangulation of Rape - Kalimah Johnson

• Stealing Children to Steal the Land - Naomi Klein

• The Complicated Practice of Healing Sexual Assault Survivors Through Touch - Sarit Luban

• Healing Your Thousand Year Old Trauma - Resmaa Menakem

• What Does A Parrot Know About PTSD? - Charles Siebert

Books

• Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self - Susan J. Brison

• emergent strategy - adrienne maree brown

• ReThinking Rape - Ann J. Cahill

• Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection - Deb Dana

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - Dr. Joy DeGruy

• Fault Line - C. Desir

• Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement - Ejeris Dixon (Editor) and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor)

• Chakra Empowerment for Women - Lisa Erickson

• Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit - Donna Farhi

• Yoga for Emotional Balance - Bo Forbes

• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

• Yin Yoga: Principles and Practice - Paul Grilley

• Sources and Expressions of Resiliency in Trauma Survivors: Ecological Theory, Multicultural Practice - Mary R Harvey (Editor) and Pratyusha Tummala-Narra (Editor)

• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Judith Herman

• Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma - Kathy L. Kain and Stephen J. Terrell

• Lifting Heavy Things - Laura Khoudari

• CARE WORK: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Trauma Stewardship - Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

• The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul - Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma - Peter A. Levine

• In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness - Peter A. Levine

• Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body - Peter A. Levine

• Prayers of Honoring Voice - Pixie Lighthorse

• Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies - Renee Linklater

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction - Gabor Maté

• When the Body Says No - Gabor Maté

• My Grandmother’s Hands – Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem

• Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy - Pat Ogden

• Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement - Jennifer Patterson (Editor)

• Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

• The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory - Stephen Porges

• Lived Through This - Anne K. Ream

• Invisible No More - Andrea J. Ritchie

• The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment - Babette Rothschild

• 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing - Babette Rothschild

• The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency - Robert Scaer

• Love with Accountability - Aishah Shahidah Simmons

• The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well Being - Daniel Siegel

• Parenting from the Inside Out  - Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell

• The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel A. Van der Kolk

• Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society - Bessel A. Van der Kolk, Alexander C. McFarlane, Lars Weisaeth

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief - Francis Weller

• Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics - Traci C. West

• Trauma and Beyond: The Mystery of Transformation - Ursula Wirtz

• After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back - Nancy Venable Raine

• Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga - Amy Weintraub

• Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault - Zabie Yamasaki

Videos

• How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime - Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

• Building Accountable Communities: A National Gathering on Transforming Harm - adrienne maree brown, Shira Hassan, Mimi Kim, Priya Rai, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, Amita Swadhin & Ejeris Dixon

• The Urgency of Intersectionality - Kimberlé Crenshaw