Resources ~ States
OREGON-VERMONT
MEMBERS ONLY
( centers.rainn.org )
It’s helpful to have support in your own community after a sexual assault. Local service providers make it easy for you to access care, and they are knowledgeable about the laws in your area and local resources that can assist you.
Click the link for the Interactive Map for Local Resources compiled by the Office for Violence Against Women – US Department of Justice:
List of anti-sexual assault organizations in the United States – Wikipedia
(States and US Territories)
Domestic Violence Service Directory (U.S.) | Red Woman Rising
Tribal Sex Trafficking By State (with Tribal Coalition) | Tribal Sex Trafficking Resources
Sex Trafficking in Indian Country: Victim/Survivor Resource Book
Address Confidentiality Programs by state
(Provides a listing of all ACP programs available in the United States)
Text “NOFILTR” to 741741 for immediate assistance for “Grooming”
If you’re being sextorted, GET HELP NOW – TEXT “THORN” TO 741741
Click the link for the Interactive Map for Local Resources compiled by WomensLaw.org:
Click the link for the Interactive Map for over 600 Local Resources complied by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
DomesticShelters.org
Click Here to enter your zip code to start your search for domestic violence programs and shelters near you.
REMEMBER: EDUCATION + AWARENESS = PREVENTION!!!
We need more TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTERS (TRC’s) in every state in the US.
As of 2020, there were only 15 TRCs in California, 9 in Ohio, and several more in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa and New Jersey.
From the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles, California:
“The TRC provides supportive services, outreach, emergency and healing interventions to victims/survivors and their families. We focus on responding to victimization from crimes and complex trauma from interpersonal violence including sexual and domestic violence, family and community violence, sex trafficking, intimate partner stalking and homelessness.”
Services offered by trauma recovery centers include trauma-informed clinical case management; evidence-based individual, group and family psychotherapy; crisis intervention; medication management; legal advocacy and assistance in filing police reports and accessing victim compensation funds; and are offered at no cost to the patient. These types of comprehensive services and assistance are intended to help people who have experienced violent crime, including patients who suffered gunshot wounds, as well as victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, human trafficking, and hate crimes, and those who had a family member assaulted or killed. To provide this breadth of services, trauma recovery centers utilize multidisciplinary staff members that might include psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and outreach workers.
PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
(University Hospitals, Healthcare Organizations, and others)
AND LAWMAKERS IN YOUR STATE
(as well as your representatives in Washington)
YOUR VOICE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!
OREGON COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Click here to FIND HELP: Programs with a 24-hour crisis and support hotline
503.230.1951 (Portland)
Click Here to FIND HELP (By Location, Language, or Service)
County | Languages Spoken | Services
“The Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence promotes equity and social change in order to end violence for all communities. We seek to transform society by engaging diverse voices, supporting the self-determination of survivors and providing leadership for advocacy efforts.”
Sexual Assault Survivors’ Resources | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Sexual Assault Support Services (sass-lane.org) – Crisis Line 1-844-404-7700
SARC Oregon | Sexual Assault Resource Center | 24-HOUR (Anonymous) SUPPORT LINE 503-640-5311 or 1-888-640-5311
Rape and Sexual Assault – Oregon Department of Justice (state.or.us) – Crime Victim and Survivor Services and Resources
Student Groups | Dean of Students (uoregon.edu) – Students for Prevention of Sexual Violence
Oregon Attorney General Sexual Assault Task Force – for Services in the State of Oregon (by County): Help For Survivors (oregonsatf.org) | Prevention (oregonsatf.org)
Portland Police Department Information and Guidelines – Sexual Assault Against Adults | Resources | The City of Portland, Oregon (portlandoregon.gov)
Saving Grace (saving-grace.org) (Central Oregon) -provides domestic violence and sexual assault services
Domestic Shelters – Oregon : https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/or
Oregon Tribal Victim Assistance Programs
Burns Paiute Tribe Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program
(541) 573-8053 | (541) 413-0216 (cell)
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians Circles of Healing Program (541) 888-1309
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program | (971) 832-0730
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians CARE Program | (541) 994-5959
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Family Violence Services | (541) 429-7045 | (888) 809-8027 (toll free)
CTUIR Tribal Prosecutor Victim/Witness Assistance | 541-429-7626 | 541-215-7666 (cell)
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Victims of Crime Program | (541) 553-2293
Coquille Indian Tribe Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Program | (541) 888-9494, ext. 2219
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians Adult and Family Services | (541) 677-5575
The Klamath Tribes Healing Winds Domestic Violence Services | (800) 524-9787 x1
NAYA: Native American Youth and Family Center Healing Circle | (503) 288-8177 x219
FBI Indian Country Victim Services | (541) 330-7918 | https://www.fbi.gov/resources/victim-services
USAO Oregon Victim Witness Unit | (503) 727-1085 (tribal advocate)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/victim-witness-assistance
NARA Adult Mental Health Services | There are times when stress, trauma, loss and other circumstances can lead to disharmony, depression, anxiety, confusion, family problems, chronic pain and even serious mental health challenges. NARA’s Adult Mental Health Program provides a variety of counseling and support services for adults ages eighteen (18) and older. | Mental Health Intake Line at 503-307-7775
Totem Lodge
1438 S.E. Division Portland | OR 97202 | Phone: 503-548-0346 | Fax: 503-232-5959
Wellness Center
12360 E. Burnside Portland | OR 97233
Phone: 971-279-4800 | Fax: 971-279-2051
Indian Health Clinic
15 N. Morris St. | Portland, OR 97227 | Phone: 503-230-9875 | Fax: 503-230-9877
Oregon Crime Victims’ Law Center (OCVLC)
7412 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy Suite 209 | Portland, OR 97225
Portland office: 503-208-8160 | Central Oregon Office: 541-323-3392 | info@ocvlc.org
OCVLC provides free legal representation to crime victims to help them assert their rights within a criminal case. We provide this service to all Oregon counties. We provide services regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, religion, class, ethnicity, age, income, or immigration status.
Oregon Address Confidentiality Program aka ACP
https://www.doj.state.or.us/crime-victims/victims-resources/victims-services/address-confidentiality-program-acp/
The Address Confidentiality Program (ACP)
P.O. Box 1108 | Salem, OR 97308 | 503-373-1323
ACP@doj.state.or.us
ACP is a free mail forwarding service. It helps survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking or human trafficking shield their physical address. Program participants are provided with a substitute address to use instead of their real address. Participants may use the substitute address for:
- the delivery of first class, certified and registered mail.
- obtaining an Oregon driver’s license or ID card.
- receiving or paying child support.
- applying for a marriage license.
- enrolling dependents in public school.
Sunshine Behavioral Health 1-833-949-0251 (Oregon)
Addiction Treatment & Rehab is available for people of all color, women, men, children, addicted Veterans, the blind, deaf, disabled, the elderly, LGBTQ, Transgender, and rural residents.
Click Here for Resources Learn More
Click Here for Directory of Free Addiction Treatment Centers in the US.
“A person struggling with drug abuse along with their loved ones only benefit from as much information and resources as possible on drug addiction. Drug abuse hotlines provide guidance for people looking to find treatment or discuss their addiction. Many drug abuse hotlines are available 24/7. Individuals can find drug crisis hotlines for themselves or for loved ones with substance use disorders.”
Oregon Chapter: Portland
Sexual Assault and Substance Abuse
“Domestic violence often involves sexual abuse. There is a link between substance abuse and sexual abuse. In many cases, substances are used in instances of sexual abuse. Alcohol is the most typically used substance in these instances.
“The link between substance use disorders and sexual abuse is complex. In many cases, it is a vicious cycle. Victims of sexual abuse are more likely to struggle with substance abuse, and those who struggle with substance abuse are more likely to experience sexual abuse.”
Click Here for Directory of Free Addiction Treatment Centers in the US.
Why Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Victims Don’t Seek Addiction Treatment
“It is hard enough for the person who hasn’t been through domestic violence or sexual abuse to seek treatment for a substance use disorder. There is such a stigma associated with addiction in our country. Many people view addiction as a moral failing as opposed to a disease that needs to be treated. Victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse have an even harder time seeking treatment for drug and/or alcohol addiction.”
Click Here for Directory of Free Addiction Treatment Centers in the US.
PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST RAPE (PCAR)
Find your local Rape Crisis Center By Location (Interactive Map)
717.728.9740 (Enola)
Sexual Assault Survivors’ Resources | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Resources – Victims Resource Center
Find a Rape Crisis Center – Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) |
Philadelphia – Sexual Assault Resources Philadelphia | Help for Abuse Victims (healthymindsphilly.org)
Lebanon & Schuylkill Counties – Sexual Assault Resource and Counseling Center (pa.gov)
Women In Need, Inc. – Franklin & Fulton County, Pennsylvania (winservices.org) (services for victims/survivors sexual assault and domestic violence, and their families)
Southwest PA (domestic violence, sexual assault, teen dating violence, other violent crimes) – If You Need Help Now – Southwest PA Says No MoreSouthwest PA Says No More
Blackburn Center Greensburg Anti-Violence Organization | 24/7 Hotline 1-888-832-2272
Domestic Shelters – Pennsylvania : https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/pa
Founded by Becca Stevens in 1997 to provide women survivors the time and space for transformative, sustainable healing from trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. The program includes two years of housing, healthcare, counseling, job training, and meaningful employment in a trauma-informed care setting.
For more information on Becca Stevens and Thistle Farms, please click here.
“None of the women ended up in their situation by themselves. It takes broken systems in our community to make them become runaways, allow them to be trafficked, and to become addicted, so it makes sense that it takes a community to help welcome them back and help them heal.”
– Becca Stevens, Founder of Thistle Farms
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Many of the sister organizations are at full capacity.
If you are part of an organization or know of an organization that might be interested in joining the Thistle Farms National Network, the largest network in the United States committed to a housing-first model for survivors. please share this information with them, or click here for the application.
For information on how to give, donate or support by fundraising, please click here.
“None of the women ended up in their situation by themselves. It takes broken systems in our community to make them become runaways, allow them to be trafficked, and to become addicted, so it makes sense that it takes a community to help welcome them back and help them heal.”
– Becca Stevens, Founder of Thistle Farms
Please share. You might help save a life!
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
Bloom Bangor
Bloom Bangor
34 Broadway | Bangor, PA 18013 | 610-588-4775
bloomstudiobangor@gmail.com | http://bloombangor.org/
BLOOM BANGOR IS A COMMUNITY EMPOWERING WOMEN TO LIVE FREE FROM ADDICTION AND VIOLENCE.
Women who have survived trafficking, trauma, and addiction deserve a second chance at life!
Our program launched in early 2016 and is modeled after the successful Thistle Farms Nashville Program that was founded in 1997. The programs are designed not just to help a subculture of women, but to help change the culture itself. The organizations stand in solidarity with women who are recovering from sexual abuse, violence, and life on the streets, and who have paid dearly for a culture that buys and sells women like commodities.
Bloom Bangor provides:
⦁ Two years of housing
⦁ A community based on our motto “love heals”
⦁ Help to residents to live honest, sober, and self-sufficient lives
⦁ Educational and vocational opportunities
⦁ Fostering of self-understanding through personal and spiritual growth counseling
⦁ Life-skill building and maintenance education
⦁ Opportunities to work toward economic self-sufficiency through Bloom Creative Studio and other business partners
⦁ access to medical and dental care
Bloom Bangor‘s programs advocate living gracefully in community with one another. New residents are given a key and are offered the necessary resources to maintain recovery, heal from childhood wounds, become physically healthy and find employment. Residents, graduates, staff and volunteers share daily tasks, offer hospitality, build upon each other’s strengths, and provide compassionate, disciplined support.
You help a vulnerable woman start over when you attend an event or make a purchase at our social enterprise, Bloom Creative Studio. See what’s happening and sign up for an upcoming workshop or paint party. We also welcome and greatly appreciate your financial gifts.
Bloom Creative Studio
Workshops & Events – No talent? No problem. Our workshops focus on a specific project or art piece. We provide you will all the supplies you need and a gifted instructor to guide you through the project.
Craft Bar – Our studio is open to everyone and is filled with tools, paints, markers, stamps, ephemera & books, and LOTS of other crafty and creative things to spark your imagination.
Private Events – Plan your next party or celebration with us, at our studio or on-site of your venue. Plan your team building/corporate event’s with us.
SHOP – http://bloombangor.org/shop
OUR HANDCRAFTED ITEMS ARE MADE WITH LOVE AND PURPOSE.
YOUR PURCHASE EMPOWERS AND HEALS.
Your purchase benefits women survivors of trafficking, trauma and addiction. #loveheals
A few of the products below:
1821 Fulton Street
Harrisburg, PA 17102
Who We Are – Justice House of Hope
Justice House of Hope Inc., provides advocacy and supportive services to youth who are victims of Human Trafficking.
What We Do – Justice House of Hope
We Educate – What is Human Trafficking? What are the signs? Who is affected?
We Protect – Outreach, Safe Space
We Empower – Trauma-Informed Care, Individual/Group Counseling, Power Through Learning
Get Help !
CONTACT
GET HELP
National Human Trafficking Hotline
888-373-7888
text “HELP” to BeFree (233733)
help@humantraffickinghotline.org
800-932-4616
Dial 211 or text your zip code to 898211 for help with information and referrals.
For reports of suspected trafficking or abuse:
800-932-0313
Donate – Justice House of Hope
COMPASSION WHERE MOST NEEDED
DAY ONE
NEED HELP NOW? 1.800.494.8100
The Helpline: 24-hour support, information and advocacy for those impacted by crimes of violence
401.421.4100 (Providence)
Mission: The mission of Day One is to reduce sexual abuse and violence while supporting and advocating for those affected by it.
Vision: Day One’s vision is to create a community that is free of sexual abuse and violence. We do this through leadership and action that is responsive to the needs of the community.
What We Do: Day One is the only agency in Rhode Island that is specifically organized to deal with issues of sexual assault as a community concern. We provide treatment, intervention, education, advocacy, and prevention services to Rhode Islanders of all ages—from preschool children to elder adults. Additionally, we advocate for public policy initiatives and systemic changes that positively impact how Rhode Island families handle sexual abuse cases.”
24-hour Victims of Crime Hotline: 1-800-494-8100
Sexual Assault Survivors’ Resources | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ricadv.org)
Victim Services Unit- Rhode Island -RI Office of the Attorney General
Domestic Shelters – Rhode Island : https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/ri
SOUTH CAROLINA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
Click Here to GET HELP (By Location)
803.256.2900 (Columbia)
“Negative beliefs and behaviors surrounding gender stereotypes and what it means to “Be a Man” are among us. We can change what the future looks like, starting with ourselves.
**It’s time to hold yourself and others accountable. It’s time to Level Up with respect.
**It’s time to treat others like human beings, not objects to be conquered. It’s time to Level Up with consent.
So what’s next? Below are resources available to help you become a strong, supportive individual and advocate who stands up and speaks out against sexual violence.”
Find the Best Sexual Abuse Group Therapy and Support Groups in South Carolina – Psychology Today
Help for Victims – South Carolina Department of Social Services (sc.gov)
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS LINE: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
Domestic Shelters – South Carolina : https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/sc
Founded by Becca Stevens in 1997 to provide women survivors the time and space for transformative, sustainable healing from trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. The program includes two years of housing, healthcare, counseling, job training, and meaningful employment in a trauma-informed care setting.
For more information on Becca Stevens and Thistle Farms, please click here.
“None of the women ended up in their situation by themselves. It takes broken systems in our community to make them become runaways, allow them to be trafficked, and to become addicted, so it makes sense that it takes a community to help welcome them back and help them heal.”
– Becca Stevens, Founder of Thistle Farms
Many of the sister organizations are at full capacity.
If you are part of an organization or know of an organization that might be interested in joining the Thistle Farms National Network, the largest network in the United States committed to a housing-first model for survivors. please share this information with them, or click here for the application.
For information on how to give, donate or support by fundraising, please click here.
Please share. You might help save a life!
Angel's Charge Ministry
Angel’s Charge Ministry
101 N.Pine Street, Suite 210 | Spartanburg, SC 2930
(864) 754-4658
https://angelschargeministry.org/about-acm/
The Way Out | To A New Life | WE FIGHT FOR REENTRY TO ELIMINATE RECIDIVISM
Our Mission
The mission of Angels Charge Ministry is to offer a transitional housing program, case management, and advocacy to deter recidivism and to facilitate a successful reentry into our community for women during and after incarceration.
Our Vision
Our vision is that all incarcerated women in Spartanburg County through faith based development will realize their value and purpose to become independent, positive assets to our community so that they will not return to incarceration.
We believe that women have the potential and right to live satisfying, productive lives. Women who have been incarcerated are often defined solely by their criminal histories. We believe that women who have made poor choices should not forever be limited by their mistakes. By restoring Hope and lending Help, we believe change will come naturally.
Disparity, desperation, and the willingness to do good is what Pastor Nannie saw in many of the ladies she visited during her routine visits to the local jails and prisons. After observing many of these women completing their sentences and being released back into the environments they once came from, she realized that more needed to be done to battle drug relapses, return to criminal behavior, and more importantly Recidivism.
Pastor Nannie Jefferies established Angels Charge Ministries in 2014. The mission was simply to provide the necessary tools for a successful reentry into society. Angels Charge has successfully helping women, young and old, ever since its inception.
Angels Charge provides the crucial step of transitional housing for 12-18 months in order to help women change their life patterns.
While Living In Our Housing, Women Receive:
⦁ Assistance with finding & using community resources & healthcare
⦁ Help enrolling in GED programs and Adult Education
⦁ Counseling for domestic violence, addiction, and mental health issues
⦁ Job skill development
⦁ Help finding jobs and transportation
⦁ Personal Case Management
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
Jasmine Road
Jasmine Road
P.O. Box 25452 | Greenville, SC 29616
Main Line: 864-516-0009 | Residential Program: 864-325-6916
Jasmine Kitchen & Online Orders: 864-263-3374
info@jasmineroad.org | https://www.JasmineRoad.org
(Jasmine Road is a Thistle Farms Sister Organization.)
Jasmine Road is South Carolina’s first two-year residential program for adult women survivors of human trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. The organization joins more than 40 Thistle Farms sister communities around the country and serves to heal, empower, and employ local women survivors in our community.
Love
We are rooted in this simple word, and it all starts with home: a safe, stable, and peaceful place to rest and heal. We embrace the concept “love heals” by surrounding each woman with a community based on unconditional love.
Heal
Through community partnerships, we work together to address the healing needs of each woman from an evidence- based holistic perspective.
Bloom
We empower each woman to blossom and thrive by providing sustainable employment, personal and educational development opportunities, stable housing, and long-term support after graduation.
Our Mission
Our mission is to offer women who are trapped in a cycle of sexual exploitation and addiction a path to freedom, a haven for healing, and the opportunity to flourish, leading to generational change and the betterment of our Greenville community.
Our Vision
Our vision is a compassionate and unified community free from prostitution, sex trafficking and addiction that values and strengthens women, empowering them to reach their God-given potential.
Our History
Jasmine Road is modeled after the very successful Thistle Farms non-profit which was founded in Nashville, Tennessee by Episcopal priest Becca Stevens more than 20 years ago. The Greenville affiliate was incorporated in 2016 as a result of a partnership between Christ Church Episcopal, Triune Mercy Center and Bon Secours, St. Francis Health System. When Jasmine Road’s first safe house opened its doors in May 2018, it joined more than 40 Thistle Farms sister agencies around the country in offering a transformative two-year residential program with an innovative social enterprise component, the first of its kind in Greenville.
Social Enterprises: Candles, Jewelry, and Restaurant (Lunch Cafe -Jasmine Kitchen)
SHOP – https://www.jasmineroad.org/index.html#section-no-bg
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
Magdalene House Charleston
Magdalene House Charleston
P O Box 1286 | Ladson, SC 29456
843-834-6771 | magdalenehouseofcharleston@gmail.com
https://magdalenehouseofcharleston.org/
(Magdalene House Charleston is a Thistle Farms Sister Organization.)
Magdalene House of Charleston is a nonprofit recovery home for women facing addiction. We offer an opportunity to recover and learn life skills in a safe environment with encouragement, accountability, and structure. Our program consists of case management and individual treatment plans that align with the 12 steps of recovery. Many of our residents come from lives of destitution, abuse, incarceration, and human trafficking and are enjoying the first freedom they have known for years. It is our mission to help women rise up from darkness and Be the Light.
Magdalene House of Charleston helps our residents achieve improved social functioning by teaching them skills to find legal employment at a living wage, and ways to improve their physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Screened applicants are invited to stay in a structured, one year program. Our Goals are to offer a chance for recovery from addiction and the opportunity for safe housing.
Services provided by Magdalene House of Charleston:
⦁ Safe and sober housing community
⦁ Case Management
⦁ Professional referral support
⦁ Inpatient/Outpatient treatment referral
⦁ Instill life skills, accountability, and responsibility
⦁ Financial planning
⦁ Health and wellness plans
⦁ Career direction and educational resources
SHOP – https://market.magdalenehouseofcharleston.org/
Jewelry (Earrings, Bracelets), Leather Totes & Accessories, Hand Bags, Home Goods, Thistle Farms Bath & Body products
A few of the products below:
Legacy Line
Designed by graduates of the Magdalene House residential program, each piece carries a message of hope and recovery, along with their personal stories of victory!
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
SOUTH DAKOTA COALITION ENDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
1-800-572-9196 | Click here for CRISIS LINES
605.945.0869 (Pierre)
Sexual Assault Survivors’ Resources | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
The Compass Center | Abuse Counseling in Sioux Falls (Breaking the Cycle of Sexual and Domestic Violence) Crisis hotline available 24/7 | 1-877-IN-CRISIS
Domestic Shelters – South Dakota : https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/sd
SOUTH DAKOTA VICTIM RESOURCES
https://www.tribaltrafficking.org/south-dakota-victim-resources
Sex Trafficking in Indian Country: Victim/Survivor Resource Book (968 pages)
Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains
https://www.niwrc.org/tribal-coalitions/native-womens-society-great-plains
Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains offers a vision that ends domestic and sexual violence against Native women. The Society works to support and strengthen sisterhood and local advocacy and program development efforts through culturally specific education, technical assistance training and resource implementation and collaborate to strengthen strategies and responses to violence in their respective tribal communities.
The geographical area that constitutes the service area of the Society includes tribes of southern Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, northern Nebraska, and Iowa.
WHITE BUFFALO CALF Women’s Society
(844) 856-2317 (Toll Free 24 / 7 Hour Crisis Hotline)
(605) 856-2317 | (844) 856-2317 (Toll Free) | contactus@wbcws.org
SAFE HAVEN FOR WOMEN IN SOUTH DAKOTA | A HELPING HAND TO VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
WBCWS, a Non-Profit, was founded by our Lakota grandmothers to serve our Relatives and their families whose lives are directly and indirectly impacted by violence. Our community can depend on us for response and support.
We provide services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. Our primary purpose has always been to offer safe shelter to victims of violent crimes on the Rosebud Reservation.
Our work is guided by the teachings of Pte’ San Win to restore the spirit of every individual who seeks our help in their time of need. We extend our knowledge and cultural resources to empower our community to end violence in and around Rosebud Reservation.
RESPOND, SUPPORT & FOLLOW UP
We respond to crisis calls 24 hours a day 7 days a week. We respond, support, and follow up with our young relatives’ ages 11-21 of both genders.
We respond to crisis calls from the hospital emergency room, local schools, and the police department.
We provide shelter, transportation, cultural healing, crisis counseling, support groups, court accompaniment, protection and restraining orders, and personal advocacy.
Weekly support groups for domestic violence for our shelter residents as well as those from the community who desire to have healing opportunities.
Participants have opportunities to learn traditional art, experience cultural healing and traditional spirituality learning that is intrinsic to our services.
The civil and criminal court system can often be overwhelming and difficult to understand, especially if your life has been turned upside down by stalking, domestic violence (DV), and/or sexual assault (SA). Our legal advocate works within the criminal justice and civil court systems to protect the safety and rights of you and your children.
WORKING WITH COMMUNITY
We work with our community members to help them understand the nature of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and child abuse.
We can come to your site and provide information and strategies about what you can do to stop these terrible crimes or help you understand how to support a friend, relative, or child who has been a victim or give you more information about how you can help.
Our shelter can hold up to 36 women and children.
We also serve men, and we have confidential agreements with local hotels to provide safe places for them. We have advocates on-site 24/7 who provide for the needs of those housed within our shelter walls. We have a full kitchen and laundry on site. We have cameras in and around the shelter, and electronic doors, and a speaker system, so no one may enter the building without approval from staff.
TENNESSEE COALITION TO END DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
800-289-9018
Click Here to GET HELP (By Location)
615.386.9406 (Nashville)
From https://www.tncoalition.org/
“The mission of the Coalition is to end domestic and sexual violence in the lives of Tennesseans and to change societal attitudes and institutions that promote and condone violence, through public policy advocacy, education and activities that increase the capacity of programs and communities to address such violence.”
As a statewide organization, the Coalition serves:
Survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault
Domestic violence and sexual assault programs
Community groups and organizations
Criminal justice agencies
Allied professionals (medical, legal, mental health, etc.)
Individuals seeking information and resources
Immigrant victims of domestic violence, stalking or trafficking
https://www.bethefriend.org/bystander-intervention-training
Sexual Assault Center of East Tennessee – Idealist (safehavencenter.org)
Home – McNabb Center (Eastern TN – for Victims of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault, Social Services, Substance Use Treatment, Mental Health Care) | 1-800-255-9711
National & State Victim Services Organizations (tn.gov)
Find the Best Sexual Abuse Group Therapy and Support Groups in Tennessee – Psychology Today
Domestic Shelters – Tennessee : https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/tn
Hope for Justice, which identifies and rescues victims, advocates on their behalf, provides restorative care which rebuilds lives and trains frontline professionals to tackle slavery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_for_Justice
Founded by Becca Stevens in 1997 to provide women survivors the time and space for transformative, sustainable healing from trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. The program includes two years of housing, healthcare, counseling, job training, and meaningful employment in a trauma-informed care setting.
For more information on Becca Stevens and Thistle Farms, please click here.
“None of the women ended up in their situation by themselves. It takes broken systems in our community to make them become runaways, allow them to be trafficked, and to become addicted, so it makes sense that it takes a community to help welcome them back and help them heal.”
– Becca Stevens, Founder of Thistle Farms
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Many of the sister organizations are at full capacity.
If you are part of an organization or know of an organization that might be interested in joining the Thistle Farms National Network, the largest network in the United States committed to a housing-first model for survivors. please share this information with them, or click here for the application.
For information on how to give, donate or support by fundraising, please click here.
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Love's Arm Outreach
Love’s Arm Outreach
4001 Rossville Blvd. | Chattanooga, TN 37407-2546 | (423) 580-6553
24/7 Survivor Helpline – (423) 500-0400
info@lovesarmoutreach.org | https://www.lovesarmoutreach.org/what-we-do
Advocacy, Holistic Recovery Home, Street & Strip Club Outreach in Hamilton County, Chattanooga, TN & North Georgia
Love’s Arm began in 2005 with a mission to engage, empower and transition women survivors of trafficking, prostitution and addiction toward a Christ-centered community of grace. We offer street and strip club outreach programs in Hamilton County, Chattanooga, TN, and North Georgia, Rahab’s Rest cost free holistic recovery home for women survivors, and are involved in numerous advocacy initiatives.
Community members and volunteers from Chattanooga, TN, and North Georgia actively engage and foster relationships on the streets, strip clubs, jails and hotels/motels. The foundations of these relationships are unconditional love, continual prayer and grace-filled wisdom. Relationships foster growth, trust and hope. Transition into recovery includes trauma informed holistic care, residential recovery, mental health services and healthcare services. The redemptive power of grace empowers us to carry the gift of God’s pure love and healing to others.
Each of our community outreach programs allow us to meet the survivors of trafficking, prostitution and addiction right where they are in Hamilton County, Chattanooga, TN, and North Georgia. We rely on trained volunteers and gracious donors to execute our trauma support and other community outreach programs for human trafficking and sex abuse victims.
Our goal is to bring these women out of the vicious cycles they are in. Below you’ll find some information on each of the initiatives that Love’s Arm provides. (https://www.lovesarmoutreach.org/programs)
If you’d like to know more about these programs and how you can support them, please email us or call (423) 580-6553.
Video: https://youtu.be/iUmiIzBuQWo
Rahab’s Rest is a 24-month cost-free holistic recovery home for women desiring to exit human trafficking, prostitution and addiction. With our assistance and your generous donations, we hope to help women get off the streets and become sex trafficking survivors.
Rahab’s Rest was established in partnership with Thistle Farms in Nashville, TN. modeling their Magdalene House program of cost-free housing in Chattanooga, TN.
Partnering with local agencies and service providers, we offer comprehensive healthcare, trauma and addiction recovery, as well as educational and employment opportunities for personal growth and sustainability.
We count it a blessing to provide a refuge of hope and healing-body, soul and spirit for women survivors who want to find safety, recovery and hope fulfilled living.
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
Founded by Becca Stevens in 1997 to provide women survivors the time and space for transformative, sustainable healing from trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. The program includes two years of housing, healthcare, counseling, job training, and meaningful employment in a trauma-informed care setting.
For more information on Becca Stevens and Thistle Farms, please click here.
“None of the women ended up in their situation by themselves. It takes broken systems in our community to make them become runaways, allow them to be trafficked, and to become addicted, so it makes sense that it takes a community to help welcome them back and help them heal.”
– Becca Stevens, Founder of Thistle Farms
.
Many of the sister organizations are at full capacity.
If you are part of an organization or know of an organization that might be interested in joining the Thistle Farms National Network, the largest network in the United States committed to a housing-first model for survivors. please share this information with them, or click here for the application.
For information on how to give, donate or support by fundraising, please click here.
Please share. You might help save a life!
Thistle & Bee/The Hive
Thistle & Bee/The Hive
Memphis, TN
https://thistleandbee.org/
Contact: https://thistleandbee.org/pages/contact-us
Helping women survive prostitution and trafficking
Thistle & Bee offers women hope and healing through a holistic residential and therapeutic clinical program and employment in our social enterprise.
Our model
Thistle & Bee provides each woman services based on her needs. Our clinical program is two years, with aftercare available upon completion. The social enterprise offers up to 18 months of employment in a supportive environment, with the potential for employment and mentoring roles beyond that.
The women in the Thistle & Bee program are breaking the cycle of poverty and multi-system failure that has brought us to a place where sex trafficking and prostitution are at an unprecedented high. Successful graduates of the Thistle & Bee program who are interested in working with us after graduation will help the residents that follow them. The model works.
SHOP – https://thistleandbee.org/collections/all-products
Honey & Pantry, Body & Home, Gifts that Give Twice, Apparel & Accessories
Some of the products below:
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
LOVE HEALS
unjust systems, the commodifying of their worth, and believing their past defines their future.
Through safe housing, healthcare, counseling, and employment, we provide the tools for physical, mental, and economic healing and freedom.
All housing and clinical services are provided free of charge.
Click here to read more about Thistle Farms’ Mission.
THE MODEL WORKS
5 years after graduation, 75% of our graduates are living healthy, financially independent lives. Click Here for a story on Success Rates.
“None of the women ended up in their situation by themselves. It takes broken systems in our community to make them become runaways, allow them to be trafficked, and to become addicted, so it makes sense that it takes a community to help welcome them back and help them heal.”
– Becca Stevens, Founder of Thistle Farms
Many of the sister organizations are at full capacity.
If you are part of an organization or know of an organization that might be interested in joining the Thistle Farms National Network, the largest network in the United States committed to a housing-first model for survivors. please share this information with them, or click here for the application.
For information on how to give, donate or support by fundraising, please click here.
Please share. You might help save a life!
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
Thistle Farms
5122 Charlotte Avenue | Nashville, TN 37209
Main Line: 615-392-1140 | Residential Program: 615-320-5325
Thistle Farms – Healing, Hope, & Freedom For Women Survivors
After experiencing the death of her father and subsequent child abuse when she was 5, Becca Stevens longed to open a sanctuary for survivors offering a loving community.
Becca Stevens (author, internationally recognized speaker, Priest, social entrepreneur) founded Thistle Farms in 1997 to provide women survivors the time and space for transformative, sustainable healing from trafficking, prostitution, and addiction.* The program includes two years of housing, healthcare, counseling, job training, and meaningful employment in a trauma-informed care setting.
It started with 5 women and 1 house in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2021, and the Thistle Farms Network now has 92 sister organizations (with 57 open residential programs, and 532 beds) across the U.S.
(NOTE: We provide details about each of the sister organizations, as well as contact information and a link to their website in the Papillon Z Members Only States Resources Directory. You can also find the names of the sister organizations on the Thistle Farms’ Network website. Please click here.)
A SURVIVOR LED MOVEMENT
Women survivors emerged from Thistle Farms equipped to lead. They are at the helm of this national movement.
Advocates, survivors, and artisans know that working together enables all groups to thrive.
Each organization is independent, but shares the same core values and is able to sustainably grow and evolve.
(*In addition to helping survivors of trafficking, prostitution and addiction, various Sister organizations do work and even provide training to prevent trafficking; and, support, love, encourage and empower those who are ready to leave, and survivors of abuse, neglect, childhood abuse and trauma, domestic violence/abuse, intimate partner violence/abuse, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, incarceration, and/or trauma, as well as women in recovery and their children.
In 2001, Becca founded the social enterprise side of Thistle Farms. The goal was to create an entrepreneurial income stream for the residential programs and to provide gateway jobs for program participants and graduates. The enterprise began pouring candles in a church basement and today is a $4M operation, with a full body and home product line,** a café, and a storefront.
It is the only program of its kind that offers survivors the opportunity for economic freedom, in addition to physical and mental recovery.
SHOP – The Shop at Thistle Farms
**Products With Purpose
Candles, body products, essential oils, jewelry, apparel, household textiles and more. Each product is handcrafted by women survivors in Nashville, TN and around the world.
TEXAS ASSOCIATION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT
Click Here to GET HELP (By Location)
512.474.7190 (Austin)
From https://taasa.org
“TAASA focuses on ending sexual violence in Texas through education, prevention and advocacy. We offer services for rape crisis centers, communities, and legislators and those who support survivors and the fight against sexual violence.”
Domestic Shelters – Texas: https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/tx
Austin – Victim Services/Resources
http://www.austintexas.gov/page/victim-services-resources
SAFEAustin (Stop Abuse for Everyone) 24-hr SAFEline – Call: 512.267.SAFE (7233) | Text: 737.888.7233 | SAFEline chat (Our 24/7 confidential SAFEline is available for victims of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, SEX TRAFFICKING, and CHILD ABUSE. )
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Hotlines https://guides.sll.texas.gov/legal-hotlines/domestic-violence
GOVERNOR/Texas HHS https://hhs.texas.gov/services/safety/family-violence-program
Find Help, Support, and Shelters.
Texas Law Help:https://texaslawhelp.org/domestic-violence-assistance-programs
Domestic Violence: Free Legal Help for Victims and Survivors.
Whether you need help getting a protective order, getting divorced, staying safe, temporary shelter, or another issue, there are programs ready to help you.
TEXAS COUNCIL ON FAMILY VIOLENCE https://tcfv.org/survivor-resources/
Services Directory to find a program in your area: https://tx.coalitionmanager.org/resourcemanager/resourcefile/details/123
Central Texas: Hope Alliance (Allied to end family and sexual violence) | 24-hour hotline at 1-800-460-7233.
https://www.hopealliancetx.org/dvctx/
Central Texas (Waco & surrounding counties) https://www.familyabusecenter.org/
The Family Abuse Center provides a wide variety of services for all victims of domestic violence. For adults, we are able to provide emergency shelter along with general services such as case management, counseling, support groups, an array of legal services and assistance with housing. Our general services are also available to those who choose not to or do not need to come stay at the shelter as well as those who reside in rural areas. (cont’d)
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The Family Abuse Center provides a wide variety of services for all victims of domestic violence, including those who live in rural areas. Our experienced professional staff are committed to providing services for those in Waco and our surrounding counties. Our outreach services include case management, counseling, support groups, life skills and financial planning classes, an array of legal services, and assistance with housing.
Rural Texas – https://www.genesisshelter.org/responding-to-domestic-violence-in-rural-texas/Emergency Hotline: 214.946.HELP (4357) | Main Outreach Office: 214.389.7700
https://www.genesisshelter.org/services/emergency-shelter/
Our shelter is at an undisclosed location. To arrange a way to get there and finally feel safe when you go to bed at night, call our 24/7 Hotline: 214-946-HELP (4357)
Institute for Coordinated Community Response (ICCR)
The Institute for Coordinated Community Response (ICCR), a program of the Conference on Crimes Against Women, was created in 2018 to address the epidemic of domestic violence in rural Texas. One in three Texas women will experience intimate partner violence in her lifetime, and in rural communities—which make up 70% of the state of Texas—twice as many women report more frequent and severe violence than their urban counterparts. Texas will never be a safe place for victims until we ensure every corner of our great state has access to consistent, high-quality domestic violence training and resources.
Each year, ICCR selects six teams—made up of a law enforcement officer, a prosecutor, and a community advocate—from rural Texas counties through a competitive application process. The training year begins and ends at the Conference on Crimes Against Women and includes 12 months of webinars, in-person training, eLearning, resources, networking opportunities, and technical assistance.
Sunshine Behavioral Health 1-855-385-5542 (Texas)
Addiction Treatment & Rehab is available for people of all color, women, men, children, addicted Veterans, the blind, deaf, disabled, the elderly, LGBTQ, Transgender, and rural residents.
Click Here for Resources Learn More
Click Here for Directory of Free Addiction Treatment Centers in the US.
“A person struggling with drug abuse along with their loved ones only benefit from as much information and resources as possible on drug addiction. Drug abuse hotlines provide guidance for people looking to find treatment or discuss their addiction. Many drug abuse hotlines are available 24/7. Individuals can find drug crisis hotlines for themselves or for loved ones with substance use disorders.”
Texas Chapter: Willow Springs Recovery
Sexual Assault and Substance Abuse
“Domestic violence often involves sexual abuse. There is a link between substance abuse and sexual abuse. In many cases, substances are used in instances of sexual abuse. Alcohol is the most typically used substance in these instances.
“The link between substance use disorders and sexual abuse is complex. In many cases, it is a vicious cycle. Victims of sexual abuse are more likely to struggle with substance abuse, and those who struggle with substance abuse are more likely to experience sexual abuse.”
Click Here for Directory of Free Addiction Treatment Centers in the US.
Why Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Victims Don’t Seek Addiction Treatment
“It is hard enough for the person who hasn’t been through domestic violence or sexual abuse to seek treatment for a substance use disorder. There is such a stigma associated with addiction in our country. Many people view addiction as a moral failing as opposed to a disease that needs to be treated. Victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse have an even harder time seeking treatment for drug and/or alcohol addiction.”
Click Here for Directory of Free Addiction Treatment Centers in the US.
Founded by Becca Stevens in 1997 to provide women survivors the time and space for transformative, sustainable healing from trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. The program includes two years of housing, healthcare, counseling, job training, and meaningful employment in a trauma-informed care setting.
For more information on Becca Stevens and Thistle Farms, please click here.
“None of the women ended up in their situation by themselves. It takes broken systems in our community to make them become runaways, allow them to be trafficked, and to become addicted, so it makes sense that it takes a community to help welcome them back and help them heal.”
– Becca Stevens, Founder of Thistle Farms
.
Many of the sister organizations are at full capacity.
If you are part of an organization or know of an organization that might be interested in joining the Thistle Farms National Network, the largest network in the United States committed to a housing-first model for survivors. please share this information with them, or click here for the application.
For information on how to give, donate or support by fundraising, please click here.
Please share. You might help save a life!
Angela House
Angela House
6725 Reed Rd. | Houston, TX 77087
281-445-9696 | info@angelahouse.org | https://angelahouse.org/
(Angela House is a Thistle Farms sister organization.)
The mission of Angela House is to successfully transition women into society after incarceration.
At Angela House our philosophy is to establish a community of women who respect themselves and each other, and who are committed to working for their own empowerment as well as the empowerment of their families and each other. The administration and support staff work hand-in-hand with the residents to create a communal atmosphere where each individual feels respected and valued. The empowerment of our residents is one of the primary goals of Angela House. It is accomplished by assisting each resident to identify her strengths, set her own agenda, and make constructive changes in her life.
Founder
Maureen O’Connell, OP, founded Angela House in 2001 to serve women coming out of incarceration. She thought it unconscionable that they had so many obstacles and so few opportunities to build a stable life and escape the cycle of recidivism. Sister Maureen set out to create a successful program to empower these women using a standard of care other programs could emulate.
Her wide range of experiences prepared her to create this successful ministry: 13 years as a Chicago police officer and police chaplain; 16 years as Clinical Services Coordinator at The Children’s Assessment Center in Houston and Victim’s Assistance Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston; more than 40 years as a Dominican Sister, a religious order known for its commitment to social justice.
She developed a program of interventions focused on trauma-informed counseling, addiction recovery, employment readiness and personal and spiritual growth. Sister Maureen served as Executive Director for 17 years. She retired in 2018 and joined the Board of Directors in 2019. Angela House has served over 430 women in 18 years.
At Angela House, we are able to house up to 16 residents at a time in a therapeutic setting that offers women a nurturing place where they can begin to experience transformative, sustainable recovery. Our program includes rent-free housing, food and clothing, counseling, and employment training. Angela House residents become self-sufficient and empowered by living in a supportive community.
Women of Angela House / Program: https://angelahouse.org/program/women/
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
Elijah Rising
Elijah Rising
2717 N. Sabine St. | Houston, Texas 77009
(832) 628-3439 | admin@elijahrising.org | https://www.elijahrising.org/our-approach/
(Elijah Rising is a Thistle Farms Sister Organization.)
Elijah Rising is ending sex trafficking through prayer, awareness, intervention, and restoration.
ENDING SEX TRAFFICKING REQUIRES A MULTI-FACETED APPROACH
Sex trafficking is a wide-spread injustice, but Elijah Rising is committed to offering solutions that make a lasting impact.
First, we do this by resourcing communities with the awareness and training needed to identify trafficking, while mobilizing individuals, to respond in practical ways that disrupt the commercial sex industry. We believe it takes everyone within society, working together, to rid our cities of this injustice. Therefore, we engage various communities such as churches, businesses, families, civic groups, artists, and more with the intention of developing relationships focused on raising an outcry for justice.
PRAYER. AWARENESS. INTERVENTION. RESTORATION.
Through prayer partners and public prayer gatherings, we are uniting the church to seek justice and rely on God to bring restoration and freedom to people.
Our Sex Trafficking Museum, Van Tours, and public presentations equip people with knowledge and volunteer opportunities to end sex trafficking in our communities.
We do more than 36 outreaches a year across the Greater Houston area. We provide women with resources to help navigate a way out of the sex industry.
We serve women who have survived sexual exploitation through compassionate 24/7 care, providing a stable family environment, and healthy therapeutic practices.
About
Elijah Rising was founded in 2012 as a prayer gathering that focused on ending sex trafficking in Houston. Across Houston women and girls were being sold for sex, but there was little outcry, so Elijah Rising began hosting Van Tours and showing the public that sex trafficking is happening across our city.
History
In 2011, a small group of people were deeply struck by the wide-spread injustice of sex trafficking filling their city. They grieved the lack of out cry for those being exploited, oppressed, and sold for sex. This group firmly believed that prayer was the most important and most effective response.
So, a monthly meeting was organized and opened to the public. The prayer meeting grew rapidly as more and more people joined the movement. Soon, they realized that more had to be done to increase awareness of the issue.
SHOP – Will be reopening soon. Construction, repairs and rebranding/packaging necessitated a brief pause in manufacturing for Elijah Rising Goods. https://shop.elijahrising.org/
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
Magdalene Austin
Magdalene House Austin
3112 Windsor Road, Suite A, PMB #307 | Austin, TX 78703
(512)766-6583 | MagdaleneATX@gmail.com
Email toni@magdaleneaustin.org to start the referral process
https://www.magdaleneaustin.org/
https://www.magdaleneaustin.org/purpose
https://www.magdaleneaustin.org/solution
(Magdalene House Austin is a Thistle Farms Sister Organization.)
A SURVIVOR-LED COMMUNITY FOR ADULT WOMEN WHO HAVE SURVIVED SEX TRAFFICKING.
OUR MISSION ~ HEAL. EMPOWER. THRIVE.
Magdalene House Austin is a survivor-led community for adult women who have survived sex trafficking. We are a community centered in love that provides safe and supportive housing, access to healthcare services and counseling, and vocational training.
WE BELIEVE THAT LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE FOR CHANGE.
A Sanctuary for Transformation.
Magdalene House Austin is a two-year residential program built on holistic care. Our program offers free long-term housing, access to healthcare services, counseling, and job training so that women who have survived trafficking can realize their dreams. Women become financially self-sufficient and empowered by living in community.
We are open and now accepting residents. Please email toni@magdaleneaustin.org to start the referral process.
We’re part of the Love Heals movement.
Magdalene House Austin is built upon the successful Thistle Farms model that originated in Nashville twenty years ago. We benefit from two decades of experience, and have support from a network of sister organizations across the country. We all stand united in the belief that love has the power to change the world.
Magdalene House Austin, based on the Love Heals model of Thistle Farms, was chartered in 2016 to address a lack of long-term, holistic care for adult survivors of sex trafficking in the Austin area. When a survivor is finally able to leave a life of slavery, in most situations she doesn’t have a community to which she can return. Without the support she needs and lacking a home and job skills, she frequently has no other choice but to return to her trafficker for emotional and financial support. Slavery isn’t just physical bondage, but also psychological bondage. And given lack of better options, traffickers know all too well how to entice women back into slavery.
Magdalene House Austin is the community option that survivors need. We provide a sanctuary for long-term healing from the severe trauma of trafficking. As the first long-term residential program in central Texas, Magdalene House offers a life in community that empowers survivors to create an independent and vibrant future. And above all else, we offer love.
THISTLE FARMS – NATIONAL NETWORK
ESTABLISHED IN 2010
A coordinated movement of survivors, customers, advocates, and communities who collaborate on innovative ways to deliver justice and challenge systems that commodify and abuse women.
This survivor-led network includes 59 sister organizations based on Thistle Farms’ model, creating a referral system to house and heal up to 309 women survivors across the country.
The education department offers seminars and resources to help groups considering founding a program like Thistle Farms learn more about the model and how to launch a social enterprise.
Providence Place/My Mariposa
Providence Place/My Mariposa
6487 Whitby Road | San Antonio, Texas
(210) 696-2410 | info@provplace.org | https://www.provplace.org/my-mariposa-home/
(Providence Place/My Mariposa is a Thistle Farms Sister Organization.
Providence Place is a licensed child placement agency in San Antonio, TX. In addition, we are a unique non-profit that provides multi-purpose programming to survivors of complex trauma, expectant mothers, families with children under the age of three and youth in foster care.
Mission Statement
Ending the cycle of generational trauma through innovative services.
About Us
The story of Providence Place began in 1895 when Madame Volino, the owner of a San Antonio brothel, experienced a life-changing conversion and committed her home as a rescue mission for vulnerable women and helped them place their babies for adoption.
Since then, Providence Place has placed more than 6,000 children in loving homes. Providence Place is a professional adoption agency fully licensed by the state of Texas and recognized as a pioneer in open adoption with a reputation for integrity.
Today Providence Place provides multi-purpose programming to various populations. These include adult survivors of complex trauma, women facing an unplanned pregnancy, families with children under the age of three and children and youth in foster care.
We provide education, job search and therapeutic services to move individuals beyond day to day survival. We want everyone to have the opportunity to envision a different future and transform their story. We are centered in God’s love, having been called by God to care for those in need.
“Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples – when they see the love you have for each other.” John 13:34-35 (The Message)
Our History
My Mariposa Home (MMH) is an 18-month transitional housing program for adult female survivors of human trafficking, sexual assault and domestic violence. MMH also serves as a multi-phase restorative program rooted in trauma informed care. It is a unique new program, opened in May of 2019, which will have a transformational impact on the community. This new program assists women (single adult women, pregnant women, and mothers with children under three years of age) who have been survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, or sexual assault with transitional housing and trauma informed supportive services.
The overall program focus is to provide for the emotional and physical needs of women survivors and their children. We provide supportive services that enhance protective factors and promote self-sufficiency in a safe and stable environment. The program services and outcomes will strive to help survivors reach sustainable economic independence throughout their restorative journey.
“For us, eliminating sexual violence is more than our mission, it is a passionate cause for the people who make our organization successful. We’re committed to creating a society free from sexual violence and our programming is a reflection of that vision.
Calling the 24-hour Crisis Line gives you access to a range of free services.”
Our technical assistance, training and other programs are designed to transform our communities and eliminate sexual violence in all of its forms. We appreciate you using our website to learn about our programs but don’t ever hesitate to contact us directly if you need any additional information. We can always be reached by phone at 801-746-0404 or email at info@ucasa.org.”
“Professional staff and certified volunteers provide 24-hour care and support to sexual violence survivors, their loved ones, and their broader network of supporters and allies in a variety of languages.
Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Crisis / Immediate Help | SafeU (utah.edu)
SafeU | Sexual Assault Awareness & Response Support (utah.edu)
Domestic Shelters – Utah : https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/ut
DOVE Center Of St. George Utah | Domestic Violence Help and Hotline | 24 Hour Helpline – Se habla español 435-628-0458 (available 24/7 to offer safe shelter and provide advocacy for survivors of domestic and sexual violence)
Domestic Violence Resources – U of U School of Medicine – | University of Utah
UTAH VICTIM RESOURCES
https://www.tribaltrafficking.org/utah-victim-resources
Sex Trafficking in Indian Country: Victim/Survivor Resource Book (968 pages)
Restoring Ancestral Winds
https://www.niwrc.org/tribal-coalitions/restoring-ancestral-winds
Restoring Ancestral Winds supports indigenous communities addressing domestic, dating, family, sexual violence, and sexual assault in the Great Basin region of Utah. The mission of Restoring Ancestral Winds is to support healing in Indigenous communities. They advocate for healthy relationships; educates communities on issues surrounding stalking, domestic, sexual, dating and family violence; collaborate with Great Basin Region community members and stakeholders; and honors and strengthens traditional values with all their our relations.
https://restoringawcoalition.org
VERMONT NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
Domestic Violence Hotline 800-228-7395 | Sexual Violence Hotline 800-489-7273
LGBTQ+ SURVIVOR SUPPORT-LINE: 802-863-0003
Click Here to GET HELP (By Location – Map)
802.223.1302 (Montpelier)
“The Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence is working to uproot the causes of violence and to build a world free of oppression where actions, beliefs and systems support all people to thrive.”
NSVRC | Vermont (National Sexual Violence Resource Center)
Vermont Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Abuse | Agency of Human Services
Domestic Violence Resources | Department for Children and Families (vermont.gov)
Domestic Shelters – Vermont : https://www.domesticshelters.org/help/vt
Deaf or Hard of Hearing? Click here Deaf Vermonters Advocacy Services
“We are an advocacy agency culturally and linguistically designed to meet specific needs of Deaf, Deaf/Blind and Hard of Hearing victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. DVAS provides direct services to victims, gives support to survivors, offers training to professionals, educates the Deaf and hearing community and works on collaborating with local agencies.”
LGBTQ HELP? Click here SAFE SPACE
“PCVT’s SafeSpace Anti-Violence Program’s mission is to end violence and discrimination in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected (LGBTQ+) people in Vermont.”
