Resources for Survivors
Trigger warning: SA, child SA
This is a non-exhaustive list of various resources (organizations, tool kits, creative offerings, etc.) to empower survivors of sexual assault and other forms of violence on their healing journeys. We see you and send love to you. We encourage you to reach out to professional resources and survivor organizations for support, care, and advocacy.
Multiple toolkits on Legal Reporting, Consent, Sharing your Story, Coping with Triggers, and using healing justice practices
Survivor’s Sanctuary: Access modules created by Black, Indigenous, and Brown practitioners that explore creating affirmation practices, breathing exercises, and compassionate self-touch for survivors.
Mirror Memoirs: A national storytelling and organizing project intervening in rape culture by uplifting the narratives, healing and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and of color Two Spirit, transgender, non-binary, intersex and queer survivors of childhood rape and sexual assault.
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: This link leads to BATJC’s resource list that centers transformative justice, abolition, and community accountability practices for survivors of various types of interpersonal violence.
Project LETS: This link leads to a Trauma Resource Google Drive full of PDF's, documents, and workbooks related to trauma. Project LETS builds peer support collectives, leads political education, and organizes for the liberation of our community through peer-led, alternatives to our current mental health system.
Open Path Collective: In partnership with mental health clinicians in private practice throughout the fifty states and Canada, Open Path provides middle and lower-income level clients with access to affordable mental health care.
National Queer & TransTherapists of Color Network: National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization actively working to transform mental health for queer and trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC).
Fireweed Collective: Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice and Disability Justice lens.
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective: BEAM: BEAM is a national organization that is committed to transforming and supporting the well being and mental health of our most marginalized communities.
Asian Therapist Directory: A directory of Asian therapists in North America.
Therapy for Latinx: Provides resources for the Latinx community to heal, thrive, and become advocates for their own mental health.
Heal Sweet Home: Focuses on transforming society beyond the “end” of childhood sexual abuse, and into the beginning of connected healing that liberates our homes and our world. They center men & masculine+ folks, sexuality professionals and healers, queer and trans people, asexual folks, sex workers, etc.
Strategies for Survivors Zine: Created by the Philly Survivor Support Collective
The GEN Grief Toolkit: Embodiment tools and rituals to support grief work in community
