Resources ~ States
VA-WY, U.S. Territories
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!!
Virginia Family Violence & Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-838-8238
LGBTQ Partner Abuse and Sexual Assault Helpline, 1-800-356-6998
If you are not able to call you can text, 804.793.9999
If you are in immediate danger, please call 911.
Need Help in a Crisis? Call 24-hours a Day
- Adult Protective Services | 703.746.5778
- Child Protective Services | 703.746.5800 or State 1.800.552.7096
- Substance Use Disorder Residential Treatment | 703.746.3636
- Domestic Violence | 703.746.4911
- Emergency Mental Health Services | 703.746.3401
- Sexual Assault | 703.683.7273
- APS State Hotline | 1.888.832.3858
Virginia | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Sexual Assault Center | City of Alexandria, VA (alexandriava.gov)
Virginia Domestic Violence Help, Programs and Statistics (domesticshelters.org)
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!
Georgia’s Friends, Inc.
405 Ridge Street | Charlottesville, VA 22902
434-284-7817 | info@georgiasfriendscville.org | https://www.georgiasfriends.org/
(Georgia’s Friends is a Thistle Farms Sister Organization.)
Providing health, healing & hope to Charlottesville’s women in recovery.
Hope heals.
It truly does. Each day we witness the transformative impact of giving hope to women. A calm, caring household. A warm meal. A new friend. A trusting counselor. A shared struggle. Many of our residents are ready to rebuild and commit to sober living, but don’t have the means or family support to begin their journey.
Our Mission
Georgia’s Friends provides programs and services in the Charlottesville-Albemarle community to help women suffering from drug and alcohol addiction and co-occurring mental health challenges.
Georgia’s House provides hope and healing through a safe, therapeutic and structured home for women in the early stages of recovery.
Georgia’s Cottage is our bridge to the community, offering programming in support of women in recovery in our area.
Georgia’s Friends encompasses an engaged network of donors, volunteers, civic leaders and health and human services experts who strive to deliver hope and healing to women in recovery in Charlottesville. We are grateful for your interest and invite you to consider giving, volunteering or sharing our mission with a woman in need.
Our Vision
Georgia’s Friends will be a leading resource in the region for women’s recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
Georgia’s House
Georgia’s House, the signature initiative of Georgia’s Friends, opened in 2015 to provide a home for women to live in community and find health, healing and hope in their recovery journeys. We serve up to twelve women on a full time basis and provide safety, wellness, advocacy, legal support and counseling. Residents may stay at Georgia’s House for up to two years as they transition to a self-sustaining and addiction-free life.
Don’t miss joining us for a “virtual tour” of our house, cottage and gardens.
Georgia’s Cottage
Our doors are now open to a wider community of women because of our generous donors and volunteers who helped to deliver on our mission of expanding beyond a residence program in support of the greater community. That outreach launched in 2019 with the renovation of a small cottage located on the grounds of Georgia’s House. Georgia’s Cottage is home to our administrative offices, a wonderful meeting space and a full kitchen, providing a comfortable and professional setting for women to learn and thrive in new ways.
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.
DC COALITION TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE (DCCESV)
Domestic Violence Resources | mpdc
Get Help – DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence (dccadv.org)
DC WISE Empowering Women and Children in Washington, DC – DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING (DASH)
DASH is the largest provider of safe housing for survivors of domestic and sexual violence in DC, and is making a real impact on the lives of survivors in DC.
Search | Find Domestic Violence and Abuse Shelters (domesticshelters.org)
Find the Best Sexual Abuse Group Therapy and Support Groups near Washington, DC- Psychology Today
ASK DC + UASK DC — DC Coalition to End Sexual Violence (dccesv.org) Find Services.
ASK DC
Assault. Services. Knowledge.
Find sexual violence services available in Washington, DC.
ASK DC provides immediate, crisis services, such as hotline and chat tools, local rape crisis centers and domestic violence services, information about the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program at Medstar Washington Hospital Center, transportation to the hospital, and options to consider after an incident of sexual assault. In addition, the platform includes a variety of follow up care services available in the city.
ASK DC provides community-specific information, including services serving LGBTQ, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Multilingual, Elders, Teens and Minors, Military Personnel and College Students.
ASK DC is available in 8 languages: English, Amharic, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Global Centurion Foundation, an anti-trafficking organization fighting human trafficking by focusing on demand, based in Washington, D.C., United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Centurion
Indian Law Resource Center
Phone: (202) 547-2800 | Email: dcoffice@indianlaw.org
Washington, D.C.
https://indianlaw.org/safewomen
Phone: (406) 449-2006 | Email: mt@indianlaw.org
Helena, MT
The Center’s Safe Women, Strong Nations project partners with Native women’s organizations and Indian and Alaska Native nations to end violence against Native women and children.
Our project:
• raises awareness to gain strong federal action to end violence against Native women and children;
• provides legal advice to Native women’s organizations and Indian nations on ways to restore tribal criminal authority and to preserve tribal civil authority; and
• helps Indian and Alaska Native nations and Native women’s organizations increase their capacity to prevent violence and to hold perpetrators of violence on their lands accountable.
We must act together to restore safety to Native women and children and to help Indian nations address the appalling cycle of violence in Native communities. The time is now.
National Congress of American Indians
Phone: (202) 466-7767
Washington, D.C.
https://www.ncai.org/policy-issues/tribal-governance/public-safety-and-justice/violence-against-women
Tribal nations are committed to securing public safety for tribal citizens and other Americans who live and work on reservations. However, legal barriers to the effective administration of justice create an environment where American Indian and Alaska Native Women are battered, raped, and stalked at far greater rates than any other population of women in the United States.
The NCAI Task Force on Violence Against Women supports congressional restoration of tribal authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit domestic violence and related crimes on tribal lands. Additionally, the Task Force supports national legislation and policy that contains tribal specific provisions that would provide tribes with the resources needed to prosecute violent crimes committed against Indian women and to adequately serve Native victims, as well as enhance tribal sovereignty. With proper authority and adequate resources, tribes can restore safety in their communities and heal them from the violence, pain, and trauma they have endured over generations.
WASHINGTON COALITION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAMS
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Washington | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Click here for An interactive map of organizations in Washington State that offer services to people affected by sexual violence and sexual assault
There are Community Sexual Assault Programs (CSAPs) that are accredited by the Washington Office of Crime Victims Advocacy in Washington State and accessible to all counties in the State. Trained advocates may provide the following services:
- Free, confidential 24/7 hotline
- information about sexual assault
- referral to other community service providers
- crisis intervention and on-going support
- medical and legal advocacy, community awareness, outreach and prevention activities,
Washington Domestic Violence Help, Programs and Statistics (domesticshelters.org)
Alliance of Tribal Coalitions to End Violence
Phone: (888) 577-0940
Silverdale, WA
http://www.atcev.org/
Tribal Coalitions: Increase awareness of domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex trafficking against American Indian and Alaska Native women; enhance the response to violence against women at the tribal, federal, and state levels; and identify and provide technical assistance to coalition membership and tribal communities to enhance access to essential services.
Urban Indian Health Institute
Phone: (206) 812-3030
Email: info@uihi.org
Seattle, WA
https://www.uihi.org/projects/our-bodies-our-stories/
UIHI recognizes research, data, and evaluation as indigenous values, and by doing so, we are able to produce the best and most accurate data to strengthen the health of Native people.
WomenSpirit Coalition
542 N 5th Ave, Suite C
Phone: (360) 681-3710
Sequim, WA
https://www.niwrc.org/tribal-coalitions/womenspirit-coalition
Washington State Native American Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault serves 29 tribes in WA State, providing technical assistance, consultation, and raising public awareness on issues related to domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, dating violence and sex trafficking.
Services are provided to established tribal domestic violence and sexual assault programs, as well as emerging programs, on issues related to dynamics, signs and symptoms, current best practices and effective service delivery approaches to enhance access to essential services.
Services are, secondarily, provided to tribal program allies on the local, state and federal levels. Public policy issues related to ensuring parity in funding, promoting tribal sovereignty, safety victims and offender accountability are WSC priorities.
http://womenspirit.net
Crime Victim Services Referral Form:
https://www.womenspirit.net/identity-theft-and-cybercrime-program/
We are excited that the Indigenous Crime Victim Services Referral and Resource Center has a new initiative. We are now a member of the National Identity Theft Victim Assistant Network and will have opportunities to “network” with you in supporting and enhancing the safety of our Women, Children and Families.
This initiative is known as the “ICVSRRC Identity Theft/Cybercrime Program.”
Cybercrime encompasses any criminal act dealing with computers and networks. Additionally, cybercrime also includes traditional crimes conducted through the internet. For example: hate crimes, internet fraud, identity theft and bank/credit card/social security/etc. thefts are considered to be cybercrimes when the illegal activities are committed through the use of a computer and the internet.
Cybercrime covers many areas of victimization and can be a “co-occurring crime” to many victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, etc.
Many of us are familiar with cyberbullying, which has affected many, especially our young people. These other crimes can also have effects on victims.
Cybersexual Exploitation |Sextortion Occurs when an individual is pressured through some technological means (e.g., text, messaging services, social media) to engage in actions against their will (e.g., sexual activities, sexual images, etc.).
Cyberstalking
This is the most common cyber victimization and all survivors experienced this. Cyberstalking includes behaviors such as using technology to harass and/or scare victims (e.g., email, instant messaging, text messaging, posts on blogs/bulletin boards, chatroom, internet sites about the victim).
Cyberstalking also includes offenders monitoring victims via audio/visual devices or computer spyware and/or monitoring movements online.
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!
Peoria Home
3331 Broadway, #6 | Everett, WA 98201
Phone: (206)486-7085 | Email: info@peoriahome.org | Contact: https://peoriahome.org/contact/ | https://peoriahome.org/programs/
https://peoriahome.org/
PEORIA HOME is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting women survivors of sex trafficking, prostitution, and addiction.
Our vision is for women to grow individually, reclaiming their freedom while living in community. Located in Everett, WA, Peoria Home supports women in Snohomish County and across the US.
We are a best practice, community-based residential model where residents and graduates of our programs experience transformative, sustainable change through long-term, rent-free housing, treatment, case management, education, training, and employment.
Making Our Mission Work
As a privately funded 501(c)3 charity, we rely completely on donor support to help us provide a home, supplies, education and medical care for each resident in our program.
The Peoria Home Story
Peoria Home was founded in 2014 by Paula Newman-Skomski, ARNP Forensic Nurse Examiner. As a forensic nurse Paula was providing services to both teen and adult women surviving in prostitution on the streets here in Snohomish County. Through this work and participating in the Sexual Exploitation Intervention Network for Snohomish County, it became apparent that there were no services available to address the needs for this population of women.
Peoria Home became her vision to remove barriers for women who have been trafficked and have records of criminal prostitution, to begin their journey to healing and freedom.
Our program is modeled after our very successful sister community Thistle Farms/Magdalene House in Nashville, TN. The Magdalene program was established in 1997 by an Episcopalian Priest, Becca Stevens, with one home housing 4 women.
Their social enterprise, Thistle Farms, was established in 2001 to provide job training for the women and program financial support.
The Peoria Home Name
Our name comes from Peoria, Illinois, where President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that was a turning point in his political career and the beginning of the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery as we knew it at that time.
We see the name “Peoria” as a symbol for a turning point in a woman’s life and the beginning of her journey to freedom from exploitation and addiction.
We believe, as Becca does, that it takes “a community of broken systems to put women on the streets and it takes a community to lift them back off the streets.” We hope that you will join our community to lift women up to a life of freedom.
Peoria Home’s Resident Program is a 2-year residential recovery program for women exploited through sex trafficking, prostitution and addiction.
Peoria Home’s residential program provides long-term secure housing as a haven from the social, psychological and economic factors that drive women to desperate means for survival.
The vision of Peoria Home is that of women growing individually and collectively, while living in community. We seek to empower women by:
⦁ Providing a safe, pleasant home environment based on a community living model
⦁ Helping residents to live honest, sober, and self-sufficient lives
⦁ Providing life-skill education and vocational opportunities
⦁ Fostering self-understanding through personal and spiritual growth
⦁ Providing a mechanism for income and asset development through Individual Development Accounts
⦁ Offering opportunities to work towards economic self-sufficiency in a therapeutic work environment with a social enterprise
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.
HOTLINE NUMBERS:
Snohomish County Human Trafficking Hotline (425)258-9037
https://snohomishcountywa.gov/3034/Special-Investigations-Unit
Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network (WARN) Victim Assistance Line (206)245-0782 | http://www.warn-trafficking.org/
The Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network (WARN) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations that provide direct services to victims of human trafficking in Washington State. Since 2004, WARN has assisted survivors of sex and/or labor trafficking to live out their desired lives without re-victimization.
Providence Intervention & Abuse Center, 24-Hour Crisis Line (425)252-4800
1509 California Street, Located inside Dawsons Place Advocacy Center, Everett, WA
https://www.providence.org/locations/wa/intervention-center-for-assault-and-abuse-everett
We believe everyone in our community deserves to feel safe, to be treated with care and respect, and to feel empowered to reach out for support. Our services are designed to center and value your unique needs as we work alongside you to identify meaningful next steps. We believe you.
Polaris, National Human Trafficking Hotline (888)373-7888 or text “BEFREE” or “HELP” to 233733 and TTY 711
https://polarisproject.org/
Founded in 2002, Polaris is named for the North Star, which people held in slavery in the United States used as a guide to navigate their way to freedom. Today we are filling in the roadmap for that journey and lighting the path ahead.
Seattle Indian Center – Project Beacon (833)742-7233
1265 South Main Street
Suite 105
Seattle, WA 98144
Phone: (206) 329-8700
Fax: (206) 328-5983
http://seattleindian.org/project-beacon/
Our people are sacred.
If you or someone you know is experiencing trafficking or if you have questions or concerns about trafficking, please:
Call our helpline: 1-833-SIC-SAFE (1-833-742-7233)
Text us at: 206-747-3234
Send us a private Facebook message: @ Seattle Indian Center
Stop in and see us!
Project Beacon helps people who are experiencing human trafficking. Project Beacon fills the cultural and spiritual gap for services to American Indian/Alaska Native people in the Seattle area. While focused on the American Indian/Alaska Native population, Project Beacon will serve any victim of trafficking we encounter, regardless of race, age, or gender.
“This product was funded by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Dept. of Justice.”
Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County (425)252-2873
Get Help On Our 24-Hour Hotline By Calling 425-25-ABUSE
https://dvs-snoco.org/
**General Phone Number, Police, Courts, Prosecutors, Witness/Victim Advocates
https://dvs-snoco.org/how-to-get-help-resources/
**Services below are provided to clients free of charge and are financially supported by donations and grants (this is not a complete list). This includes information and referral for victims of domestic violence, their families and friends, and other service providers.
HOTLINE NUMBERS:
Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish County (425)252-2873
Get Help On Our 24-Hour Hotline By Calling 425-25-ABUSE
https://dvs-snoco.org/
**General Phone Number, Police, Courts, Prosecutors, Witness/Victim Advocates
https://dvs-snoco.org/how-to-get-help-resources/
**Services below are provided to clients free of charge and are financially supported by donations and grants (this is not a complete list). This includes information and referral for victims of domestic violence, their families and friends, and other service providers.
**Emergency Shelter
DVS provides temporary shelter in a confidential location for victims of domestic violence and their children. These services include:
- Food and clothing
- Advocacy, support groups, and safety planning
- Information and referral
- Children’s advocacy and activities
*Supportive Housing
DVS offers a variety of housing options and opportunities; emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence in imminent danger, Permanent Housing with support services for families leaving the DVS shelter or experiencing domestic violence, flexible funding to provide one time financial assistance to help families keep or get into permanent housing as funds are available.
Other organizations who are engaged in the fight against human trafficking, in our state, nationally and internationally.
R.E.S.T. (Real Escape from the sex trade)
REST | REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE
4215 Rainier Ave. S. Suite B | Seattle, WA 98118, United States
(425) 395-4691 | Info@IWANTREST.com
https://iwantrest.com/
REST offers pathways to freedom, safety, and hope to individuals who have experienced the sex trade.
Shared Hope International
Ambassador of Hope in every school https://sharedhope.org/2021/08/05/every-school/
Training. Awareness. Collaboration. https://sharedhope.org/what-we-do/prevent/
Restore. Programs and Partners.
https://sharedhope.org/serviceproviders/
List of organizations known to Shared Hope that provide shelter and/or community-based services to survivors of sex trafficking. We are certain that there are many competent organizations providing services that we have not identified here and you are encouraged to connect with your local task force or coalition in order to access the most comprehensive resources available in your area. To the best of our knowledge, we have listed the population served.
The inclusion of these organizations does not represent an endorsement of their services or shelter facilities by Shared Hope and does not guarantee that they are currently running, providing services to the population listed or accepting clients. Click for Much More Information for these organizations.
OPS (Organization of Prostitution Survivors )
112 SW 157th St | Burien, WA 98166 | Bus Lines: Rapid Ride F Line, 166, 180, 631
Helpline (call or text 10am – 6pm) 206-853-6243
https://seattleops.org/
OPS facilitates recovery from the harms of prostitution through survivor-centered, trauma-informed services that empower our participants and community to heal from, and end, this system of gender-based violence.
Washington Trafficking Prevention
P.O. Box 776 | Tacoma, WA 98401 | info@traffickingprevention.org
https://traffickingprevention.org/
Cocoon House
Get Help: Call 425.317.9898 or email info@cocoonhouse.org
http://www.cocoonhouse.org/prevention
Cocoon House believes preventing teens from becoming homeless means educating and supporting parents to build safe, structured environments for teens to develop. Our Prevention team offers parent education and supportive programming to parents and guardians to increase their knowledge of their developing young person.
WEST VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR RAPE INFORMATION AND SERVICES
West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Phone: 304-965-3552
Website: http://wvcadv.org/
Imagine If Ranch, Inc. | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
The mission of Imagine If Ranch, Inc. is to break the cycle of abuse, poverty, hunger, and homelessness by helping residents rebuild their lives in a loving, healthy environment. Serving Hampshire, Mineral and Hardy Counties of West Virginia, is Imagine If Ranch; a place where the pieces of a broken life can start over and begin anew.
West Virginia Domestic Violence Help, Programs and Statistics (domesticshelters.org)
WISCONSIN COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT
Phone: 608-257-1516
Service Providers | WCASA (By County or American Indian Tribe)
Wisconsin Sexual Assault Service Providers
End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Phone: 608-255-0539
Fax/TTY: 608-255-3560
American Indians Against Abuse (Hayward, WI)
Toll Free: 1-888-330-7402
Find the Best Sexual Abuse Group Therapy and Support Groups in Wisconsin – Psychology Today
Programs | Sexual Assault :: Women & Children’s Horizons, Inc. (wchkenosha.org) The mission of Women and Children’s Horizons is to provide support, shelter, education, training and healing services to victims of sexual and domestic abuse, their families and the community.
Sexual Assault Center – Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin – Fa… (hub.biz)
Sexual Assault – HOPE HOUSE OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN (hopehousescw.org) To prevent abuse and provide support to victims of domestic and sexual violence. Our service area includes Sauk, Columbia, Juneau, Marquette, and Adams Counties.
County Resources – HOPE HOUSE OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN (hopehousescw.org)
More Resources – HOPE HOUSE OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN (hopehousescw.org)
UNIDOS of Wisconsin – Home (unidoswi.org) UNIDOS exists to empower the community to break the cycle of domestic violence, end sexual assault and promote healthy family systems. (Serving the Latinx communities since 1996.)
Wisconsin Veterans Network (wisvetsnet.org) The Wisconsin Veterans Network is starting a support group for women who have experienced sexual harassment and assault in the military. “To find a safe place to connect with other women who have experienced those things…”
Wisconsin Domestic Violence Help, Programs and Statistics (domesticshelters.org)
American Indians Against Abuse
715-634-9980
https://www.niwrc.org/tribal-coalitions/american-indians-against-abuse
American Indians Against Abuse Inc. is located in Hayward, Wisconsin, and serves eleven tribes geographically encompassing the entire state of Wisconsin, including the Bad River, Red Cliff, Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac de Flambeau, Sokaogon and St. Croix Chippewa, Ho-Chunk Nation, Menominee Nation, Oneida Nation, Forest County Potawatomi and Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nations.
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!
Franciscan Peacemakers Street Ministry/Gifts for the Journey
3333 W. Lisbon Avenue | Milwaukee, WI 53208
Contact: https://franciscanpeacemakers.org/pages/contact
https://franciscanpeacemakers.org/
(Franciscan Peacemakers is a Thistle Farms Sister Organization.)
Contact Deacon Steve at 414-559-5761 for pastoral ministry related to sex trafficking
Contact Mary Leach-Sumlin at 414-562-4780 with inquiries into Clare Community or Hospitality Center
Contact Carmen Fontanez at 414-949-1551 with Social Enterprise or Customer Service inquiries
Contact Shelly Roder at 414-502-7050 for all Public Relations or Volunteer Inquiries
Franciscan Peacemakers connects women survivors of sexual exploitation to safe housing, meaningful work and a healing network of support. We work for an end to human sex trafficking through service and advocacy because we believe that everyone is created to enjoy peace and all good.
CONNECT. Community outreach from streets to suburbs
EMPLOY. Provide meaningful, living wage jobs
HOUSE. Create safety and a network of support
ADVOCATE. Educate the community, advocate for survivors
MISSION
Franciscan Peacemakers provides a pathway to a sustainable healthy, safe and productive life for women engaging in prostitution due to trauma, human sex trafficking or drug addiction.
OUR STORY
Since 1995, Franciscan Peacemakers has been ministering on the streets of Milwaukee reaching out primarily to women engaging in prostitution but also to the homeless and families living in poverty. Bag lunches, personal care items and referrals to agencies able to address the complexity of women’s needs given histories of trauma and abuse provided an avenue to build relationships of trust with women.
The reality that most programs serving women lasted only 60-90 days and frequently ended with the relapse of women to the streets, Franciscan Peacemakers was determined to create a better solution. Inspired by the model of Magdalene House in Nashville (now known as Thistle Farms), Franciscan Peacemakers opened Clare Community in 2014 to provide a more concrete, holistic and long-term option for women seeking a pathway to healing.
STREET MINISTRY
Hospitality and outreach to women engaging in street prostitution to begin building relationships of trust. Franciscan Peacemakers Outreach van visits highly prostituted streets in Milwaukee four mornings a week, bringing bag lunches, hygiene products, warm clothes and empathetic presence to women on the street. The Franciscan Peacemaker Hospitality Center provides respite and peer support for women on Lisbon Avenue for 3 hours each weekday morning.
HOUSING AND HEALING
Clare Community is a two- year program that provides housing for women who are on their journey of recovery from sexual exploitation and substance addiction. The three women who live in Clare Community are laying a solid foundation for life-long recovery, which they begin through an out-patient treatment program (usually 6 months). The residents have time in these two years to gain employment experience as well as to engage in healing various aspects of their lives: trauma care, physical, emotional and mental health, legal, relational healing. While in Clare Community they rebuild their network of support.
EMPLOYMENT
Survivors are provided living wage jobs in our Social Enterprise which manufactures and sells all natural bath and body products, sold at various outlets including our retail store, located right on Lisbon Avenue in Milwaukee. Employees living in Clare Community save half of their income so upon completion of the program, they have money saved up for moving into independent housing.
EDUCATION
Franciscan Peacemakers staff and board provide education to Catholic parishes, school, and community groups to raise awareness about human trafficking.
The sale of our bath and body products also provides an avenue for raising awareness within the larger Milwaukee community.
Our team is also a part of the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force at the County level and interfaces with several Anti-Trafficking Advocacy groups in Southeastern Wisconsin.
Resources Provided by Franciscan Peacemakers
Street Outreach: Franciscan Peacemakers Hospitality Center (located at 1756 N 34th Street) is currently closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Check back in Fall 2020 for updates on service hours.
Franciscan Peacemakers Street Outreach team provides mobile outreach 5 mornings a week throughout the city of Milwaukee.
For inquiries into Franciscan Peacemakers Street Outreach, Hospitality Center or the Clare Community, please call Mary Leach-Sumlin at 414-562-4780.
Education/Advocacy: See Calendar of events here. Contact Deacon Steve Przedpelski at 414-559-5761 for inquiries into speaking engagements or pastoral ministry related to sex trafficking.
SHOP – https://franciscanpeacemakers.org/collections
(Soap, Bath & Body, Soy Candles, Gifts & Collection Sets,
Peace & All Good Merchandise Subscriptions, Community Care)
Find a Shop that sells our products here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1VfAHzYSrJBgwNvkB6GFca8j4tYt4sV4Y&ll=39.95846292562322%2C-96.90637860000001&z=4
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.
WYOMING COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
Hotline: 1-800-990-3877
Committed to provide leadership, education, and systems advocacy to advance social change and end violence.
Español | wcadvsa (wyomingdvsa.org)
Get Help | Sexual Assault Resources
Legal Program | wcadvsa (wyomingdvsa.org)
Wyoming Domestic Violence Help, Programs and Statistics (domesticshelters.org)
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.
AMERICAN SAMOA ALLIANCE AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE | National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
America Samoa Alliance Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
P.O. Box 4459
Pago Pago, AS 96799
(684) 699-0272 Fax: (684) 699-0273
(684) 733-4334 Hotline
Email: asadsv@gmail.com
GUAM COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY VIOLENCE
General Information – Guam Coalition Against Sexual Assault & Family Violence (GCASAFV)
The Guam Coalition Against Sexual Assault & Family Violence (GCASAFV) is a non-profit organization whose members are other community-based providers, government allies, and individuals who address sexual assault and family violence issues on Guam.
PUERTO RICO – National Sexual Violence Resource Center – Organización feminista de base comunitaria con sede en Puerto Rico. / Feminist grassroots organization based in Puerto Rico.
Initiatives include:
Women and Health
Through a feminist vision, we promote women’s integral health and gender based violence prevention. Based on the conviction that when women prosper, their communities are strengthened; an integral look is promoted to the full development of women’s potential, creating work strategies with Loíza’s communities to open doors for the construction of collective power.
Type of Organization: Community of Color, Victim / Survivor Support
Community and Leadership
At Taller Salud we believe in forging an inclusive society, with active violence-free communities that advocate for their right to an integral health and that promote their mutual progress. Our goal is to strengthen the capacity for community coordinated responses and the skills of local community leaders in the search for common solutions for their families and communities through education, participatory processes and activism.
Description: ¡Unidas por una vida sin violencia! Programa para mujeres inmigrantes en situaciones de violencia doméstica.
State or Territory Served: Puerto Rico; Type of Organization: Community of Color; Victim / Survivor Support
Type of Organization: State or Territory Sexual Assault Coalition
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
If you have an emergency, call 911 immediately.
Women’s Coalition of St. Croix
Ending violence by advocating for victims; 24 hour services.
Physical Address:
45 Fisher Street
Christiansted, VI 00820
Mailing Address:
2145 Fisher Street
Christiansted, VI 00820
Phone: 340-773-9272
Fax: 340-773-9062
Email: info@wcstx.org
Legal Services of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix
Access justice, protect rights and educate people in poverty in order to empower them to move toward self-sufficiency.
3017 Orange Grove
Christiansted, VI 00820
Phone: 340-718-2626
Fax: 340-718-8593
Email: stxoffice@legalservicesvi.org
Family Resource Center, St. Thomas
Serving those in need through financial assistance; temporary/permanent housing; education; promoting justice and peace in the community.
16B & 17 Commandant Gade
St. Thomas, VI 00802
Phone: 340-776-3966 or 340-776-STOP (7867)
Fax: 340-777-5994
Legal Services of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas
To access justice, protect rights and educate people in poverty in order to empower them to move toward self-sufficiency.
47 Kongens Gade
St. Thomas, VI 00802
Phone: 340-774-6720
Fax: 340-777-8686
Email:sttoffice@legalservicesvi.org
St. John – Myrah Keating Community Health Center – 340-514-1823
