Important Links
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
www.RAINN.org
Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force
A collaborative approach to address adult and adolescent sexual assault in Oregon.
www.oregonsatf.org
Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS)
Sexual Assault Support Services of Lane County is a non-profit organization providing community education, outreach, advocacy and support to survivors of sexual violence and their families.
www.sass-lane.org
Clery Report
In compliance with federal law, the University of Oregon prepares an annual report on campus safety, security programs and services. Originally enacted in 1990, the federal law was amended in 1998 and renamed the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. These tables provide crime statistics as required under this act. These statistics are also available in pamphlet format from our office.
www.safetyweb.uoregon.edu/safety/crime_stats.htm
End Sexual Violence: Oregon
Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention & Education.
www.endsexualviolence.oregonsatf.org
Male Survivors
An organization committed to preventing, healing, and eliminating all forms of sexual victimization of boys and men through support, treatment, research, education, advocacy, and activism.
www.malesurvivor.org
Men Can Stop Rape
Men Can Stop Rape mobilizes male youth to prevent men's violence against women. We build young men's capacity to challenge harmful aspects of traditional masculinity, to value alternative visions of male strength, and to embrace their vital role as allies with women and girls in fostering healthy relationships and gender equity.
www.mencanstoprape.org
National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS)
Pro-feminist, gay-affirmative, anti-racist, enhancing men’s lives.
www.nomas.org
Links for Survivors of Color and Allies
NCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing.
www.incite-national.org
National Women's Alliance
The National Women’s Alliance (NWA) is a community-driven, national advocacy organization dedicated to ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls of color
www.nwaforchange.org
National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault
The National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) is a Women of Color led non-profit committed to ensuring that systems-wide policies and social change initiatives related to sexual assault are informed by critical input and direction of Women of Color.
www.sisterslead.org
La Red (The Network)/ LGBTQ
Ending abuse in lesbian, bisexual women's and transgender communities.
www.thenetworklared.org
Violence Against Native American Women
Provides technical assistance, policy development, training, materials and resource information regarding violence against Native women and to develop tribal strategies and responses to end violence.
www.sacred-circle.com
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) is a national advocacy organization dedicated to promoting policy, program, and research efforts to improve the health and well-being of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander (AA,NHOPI) communities.
www.apiahf.org
The Rural Womyn Zone
Voices of Rural Women in the United States
www.ruralwomyn.net
Recommended Reading
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
By Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
Based on the premise that "everyone wants to become whole," this book offers help and encouragement to women who were sexually abused in childhood. Through moving first-person narratives, it illustrates how to come to terms with the past and work constructively towards the future. Along the way it describes the effects of sexual abuse, maps the stages survivors pass through, and offers practical guidance on dealing with self-defeating behaviors and building self-esteem. Supportive strategies are recommended to families, friends, and health-care professionals.
Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
By Laura Davis
Based on in-depth interviews and her workshops for partners across the country, Laura Davis offers practical advice and encouragement to all partners -- girlfriends, boyfriends, spouses, and lovers -- trying to support the survivors in their lives while tending to their own needs along the way. She shows couples how to deepen compassion, improve communication, and develop an understanding of healing as a shared activity.
The Gift of Fear
By Gavin De Becker
A discussion of survival signals that protect us from violence. This book teaches how to identify the warning signals of a potential attacker and recommends strategies for dealing with the problem before it becomes life threatening.
The Rape Recovery Handbook: Step-by-Step Help for Survivors of Sexual Assault
By Aphrodite Matsakis
In this new handbook, an expert in the treatment of PTSD helps rape victims cope with the reality of the experience and deal with the aftermath of conflicting and debilitating feelings. Recovery begins by establishing a safety plan that includes what to expect from recovery, and an understanding of how to treat your self during recovery. Learn how to develop a community and supportive network to assist you during the journey and cope with the anxiety and anger that often arise during this process.
The Truth About Rape
By Teresa M. Lauer
Emotional, spiritual, physical, and sexual recovery from rape.
I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
By Robin Warshaw
Based on first-person accounts, scholarly studies and data from a nationwide survey of college campuses conducted by Ms. magazine, freelance journalist Warshaw draws a devastating portrait of men who rape women they know. The Ms. survey reveals that 25% of the college women polled have been the victims of rape or attempted rape, 84% of the victims were acquainted with the attacker and 57% of the rapes happened on dates. One in 12 of the male respondents admitted to acts that meet the legal definition of rape or attempted rape. Warshaw, herself the victim of an acquaintance rape, handles an inherently sensational subject with compassion and restraint. She describes and condemns the social milieu that condones such acts by encouraging men to see sex as conquest and women to view sexual coercion as part of the "dating game." There is realistic, practical advice on how women can protect themselves against attacks by acquaintances and on how men can prevent this type of rape.
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