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Prevention Resources
Trauma
Research and Information on ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences
Sexual Abuse and Assault Assistance:
National Sexual Assault Hotline
Hours: Available 24 hours
1-800-656-4673
If you need support, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Our Resilience assist with: Seeking medical treatment in the ER after a sexual assault: Filing an emergency order of protection; Making a police report; Accessing ongoing medical treatment; Understanding your rights and options. All of the services are free and confidential.
1-888-293-2080
Navigating Child Sexual Abuse: A Resource for Survivors and Their Loved Ones: A resource for traumatic experiences that leaves physical and psychological impacts on a child’s life. Read about how to get help and find resources for navigating sexual abuse.
RAINN: This is a great resource for those struggling with impacts of sexual abuse and violence used against them.
Peace Over Violence: This organization's mission statement reads: Building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence.
Darkness to Light (D2L): Another great organization doing prevention work around sexual abuse and assault. A lot of the stats were referenced from their website.
1in6: This organization works to promote and heal men and boys who have endured sexual abuse
Sexual Abuse Information: If you suspect a child you know is a survivor of child sexual abuse, there are signs and symptoms you can watch for. Learn not only how to recognize child sex abuse, but also how to help children disclose and report the abuse when it occurs.
Step by Step Guide and Resource for Sexual Assault: If you’re searching for advice on what to do after a sexual assault, consider this step-by-step guide for a detailed overview of what to do immediately following the incident, your rights, sexual assault laws in your state, and how to seek help with filing a sexual assault claim.
Sexual Assault in the Workplace: Workplace sexual assault is any physical sexual contact where there was no explicit consent exchanged and is a form of sexual harassment. If you have experienced sexual assault by a manager, another employee, or a customer, you have rights and options.
Child Sexual Abuse Support Guide: Child sexual abuse is a life-changing, traumatic event that is unfortunately all too common, especially in the digital age. This guide provides information and resources to prevent sexual abuse and help survivors, caregivers, and other parties better understand the issue. Please note that while we strive to approach this topic with compassion and respect, some content may be triggering for survivors of child sexual abuse.
Sexual Health
Stop It Now!: This website is a great organization and resource for youth and sexual health topics.
What's OK?: Stop It Now! Also created a resource for people who are worried about their own sexual health and behaviors, you can check out the FAQs page and call or chat with someone knowledgeable.
Safer Society: This organization does a lot of free trainings in the area of sexual health and problematic behaviors.
Prevention Tools
Stop It Now!: They have guidelines for reporting (this was also included in the Stats section) but here is the direct link to this page: Reporting Guidelines & Stop It Now! Prevention Tools
The Stop It Now! folks also provide hotlines and chat options for people with questions:
The Helpline strives to provide support, guidance and information to adults who wish to speak confidentially with our Helpline staff. We are open Monday through Friday from 12pm to 6pm EST. The Helpline is closed for standard US business holidays. Call the Helpline (1.888.PREVENT)
Consent Toolkit: This toolkit was created through a partnership between youth and subject matter experts from
the fields of education, public health, sexual violence prevention, domestic violence prevention,
and youth development.
Consent Resources: Consent is an ongoing mutual agreement to do something. It's important to teach and practice consent for all ages. Share what you are comfortable with and respect what others are comfortable with (from whether to hug someone as a greeting, to using someone's phone, to posting or sharing pictures on social media).
Juvenile Justice: This is a website for juvenile justice, and gives all the examples of prevention programs through the juvenile system.
A Call to Men: This organization works with men and boys to recreate healthy relationships and work on non-violent measures in manhood.
Hazelden Youth Prevention Programs & Safe Dates Program: Youth Sexual Prevention Programs
Thorn This company is an innovative technology nonprofit, that creates products and programs that combat child sexual abuse at scale.
Resources on Internet Prevention:
Thorn’s Youth Resources Page
Thorn’s Parent Resource Page
Endtab.org: This organization has information on safety around digital abuse and non-consensual digital images
Addressing Intimate Image Base Abuse
Digital Safety in different languages
Endtab.org also works with The Tech Savvy Parent to give parents tools for online safety
Mental Health Resources
NAMI Helpline: During this difficult time, the NAMI HelpLine is here for you. HelpLine volunteers are working to answer questions, offer support and provide practical next steps. The resources on this page provide information to address many needs and concerns. Stay connected, text, chat, call or email the NAMI HelpLine today. The NAMI HelpLine can be reached Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m., ET.
Call 1-800-950-NAMI (6264)
Text "HelpLine" to 62640
E-mail helpline@nami.org
Crisis Text Line: Anyone can text TALK to 741741 to text with a trained crisis counselor for free, 24/7 support. Text from anywhere in the USA. Every texter is connected with a Crisis Counselor, a real-life human being trained to bring texters from a hot moment to a cool calm through active listening and collaborative problem solving.
Text HOME to 741741
THRIVE LIFELINE: "Thriving Harnesses Respect, Inclusion, and Vested Empathy: a 501(c)(3) grassroots organization dedicated to changing the landscape of mental health support for people with intersecting marginalized identities. We provide crisis support through THRIVE Lifeline. We also partner with Stronger U to provide peer support through community discord servers and topic-based groups, scholarships to community education experiences, and professional non-carceral development opportunities for selected Community Care Practitioner and Undergraduate Internship applicants."
Inclusive therapist hotlines and information: Inclusive Therapists is a social justice and liberation-oriented mental health directory, community, and resource hub (established in 2019). We offer a safer, simpler way to find a therapist, counselor, coach, or mental health provider committed to collective liberation and healing. We center on the intersections of Racial, 2SLGBTQIA+, Neurodivergence, and Disability Justice. Please click here to see our values and priorities.
Crisis Info: https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/crisis
Peer Support: https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/crisis#peer
Chicagoland Livingroom Options:
The Living Room at Healthcare Alternative Systems: HAS operates The Living Room Program in both the Belmont Cragin and Broadview communities, offering a welcoming and supportive space for adults (18+) experiencing a mental health crisis. Whether facing overwhelming feelings of sadness, anger, anxiety, or fear, individuals can find immediate support in a calm, home-like setting—without the need for a visit to the emergency room.
The Living Room at Thresholds: Thresholds offers mental health crisis support through The Living Rooms. The Living Room is an entirely peer-led mental health crisis respite center, an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. The Living Room at Thresholds is a comfortable, safe, and quiet place for those experiencing a mental health crisis. This program is run for those in recovery, by those in recovery.
Other Chicago Mental Health Supprot Options:
Between Friends (24/7 Domestic Violence Crisis Line): Whether you’re in an urgent crisis situation or healing from a past abusive relationship, you can call Between Friends on our toll-free phone line:
1-800-603-4357
Racial Equity Support Line: (9am - 5pm PST M-F): The Racial Equity Support Line is a service of Lines for Life, led and staffed by people with lived experience of racism. They offer support to those who are feeling the emotional impacts of racist violence and microaggressions, as well as the emotional impacts of immigration struggles and other cross-cultural issues.
503-575-3764
Chicago Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) Pet Loss Support Line: Helpline is a free service for grieving pet owners. Volunteers retrieve messages from the grieving and then call to offer support by active listening as well as providing referrals when needed. The program was developed in 1992 by Dr. Mary K. Baukert. Dr. Emil Baukert began as the coordinator for the Helpline when the first call was received on July 1st, 1993.
630-325-1600
Lap of Love Animal Hospice Care: Lap of Love is a network of veterinarians around the country with the goal of empowering every owner to care for their geriatric pets. Our philosophy centers around the human-animal bond and the need for that bond to be as undisturbed as possible during this most difficult time. The desire to bring this important service to families across the United States is slowly being realized as additional veterinarians begin working under the same philosophy. Lap of Love is honored to have some of the most compassionate and empathetic vets working with us.
855-933-5683
Lap of Love Pet Loss Support: Grieving the loss of a pet is a very personal experience and the journey to healing is different for everyone. Our individual support sessions are for pet parents who desire personalized support on how to heal following the death of their beloved pet. Individual call sessions are led by a Pet Loss Support team member who will offer a compassionate ear and a caring safe space for the sharing of feelings and emotions surrounding the death of a loved pet.
Cost: $65 (USD) for a 50-minute session