Marilyn recommends the following resources, books, and services
Adult Survivor Support Groups, Child Sexual Abuse
American Psychiatric Association
ASCA, Adult Survivors of Child Abuse, The Morris Center
Borderline Personality Disorder Page
Center for the Prevention of Sex and Domestic Violence
Child Abuse Prevention Foundation
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Child sex abuse justice response & alternative resolve
Clergy and Educator Abuse Survivors Empowered!
Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault Resources
Department of Justice Violence Against Women Office
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Information
Intimacy & Sexuality Sexual Healing from Sexual Abuse
National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization
Parenting Safe Children is an organization with one goal: to eliminate child sexual assault from our communities. And we want to start what could be the most important conversation you could ever have as a parent.
It’s also one of the most difficult — if not the most difficult — subjects to talk about. But considering how dangerous, and how common, child sexual assault is, we owe it to our children to do whatever it takes to protect them from it.
OFF LIMITS = This book will empower you with information on age-appropriate sexual development, body-safety rules, sample language for talking with children and teens about body-safety, screening questions for caregivers, and more. It also includes information on how to handle a disclosure when a child has been sexually assaulted or is assaulting another child.
Recovered Memories of Sex Abuse Scientific Research
Sex Offender Registry and Sex Crime Search
SNAP Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
A free, confidential tool that helps individuals take steps toward a healthy relationship with drugs and alcohol. It was developed with the input of leading clinicians, experts from the White House and SAMHSA, and people in recovery themselves. Here, individuals can hear stories from people with similar life experiences and find the answers they need for recognizing and dealing with substance use issues.
The National Center for Victims of Crime
The Shelter for Women Having Their Minds Controlled by Criminal Gangs
Gaby Breitenbach must have seen and heard some awful things. The German psychotherapist is talking about how sometimes, from a very young age, women are systematically tortured by people seeking to split their minds into multiple identities. Read more …
Treatment and Prevention – Childhelp USA
Wings Foundation (Facebook page)
Teen Depression – A Guide for Parents
Mental Health Service Provider Search
Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide
Eating disorder treatment programs for LGBTQIA+ people
STATISTICS TO BE AWARE OF
Grants for Single Mothers
Financial assistance programs that help single mothers with rent, utility bills, child care, education, medication, housing, medical bills, and mortgage, among others.
Financial Help for Women in Abusive Relationships
Mustering the courage to leave is a process in itself. Overcoming the final barriers – emotional and logistical – to actually leaving is still a major step. Planning and preparing can be antidotes to fear, but even if you have to leave suddenly, there are ways to make the departure less wrenching.
Grants for Women
Free grants and financial assistance programs that help women with medication, housing, medical bills, rent, utility bills, child care, education, and mortgage, among others.
Income Ideas and Emergency Resources
A one-page resource with valuable links and information to help you in discovering emergency financial aid and additional, or full-time income.
A Students Guide to Coping with Grief
Grief after a deeply-felt loss can range from a sadness that lingers, always hovering in the background, to a total emotional upheaval that turns your entire world upside down. For the typical person, dealing with a loss can be one of the most difficult things to get through.
Students Coping with Grief & Loss at School
Grief after a deeply-felt loss can range from a sadness that lingers, always hovering in the background, to a total emotional upheaval that turns your entire world upside down. For the typical person, dealing with a loss can be one of the most difficult things to get through.
Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Resources on the Regis College website
“Post-traumatic stress disorder is a disordered response to an overwhelming event. A frightening or dangerous event or series of events will typically elicit strong feelings of fear, which create a physiological response in the body. This response is designed to enable someone to either fight or flee the situation. On the other side of the event, it’s natural to experience a range of emotions. If uncomfortable thoughts and emotions continue past the event and when no dangers are present, someone may be exhibiting symptoms of PTSD.”
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Understanding the close relationship between PTSD and addiction is a crucial part in both prevention and recovery.
Jockey Daughter. I do not have to be beaten to cross the finish line.
Most children growing up cannot say their fathers were jockeys who rode racehorses for a living. With that profession comes excitement, privilege, community status, and a vast array of Hall of Fame athletes and a host of trainers, agents, stable workers, and jockeys frequently visiting the home. That was the life author Tracey Cooper and her siblings experienced.
But while adoring fans cheered her father across the finish line, her mother was beating her and her six siblings within an inch of their lives. They endured her unbelievable anger, resentment, and negative energy until they were able to leave. In Cooper’s home, the abusive events were oddly intertwined with the very public aspect of the professional sport of kings and the sheer excitement and magnitude of the horse racing industry.
In Jockey Daughter, she shares a poignant, firsthand look at the personal side of horse racing and the secreted physical abuse that happens in so many families regardless of their economic status. For Cooper and her brothers and sisters, the abuse was a hushed secret, and no one, except for a few, attempted to stop it.
Interview with a Recovered Porn Addict
Meet Bill, One of the film producers who worked on the documentary Miss America by Day
The Bastard Queen: A Family Secret Revealed is a story of secrets, acceptance, and forgiveness. This is my life. A life I felt never needed to be written about because through my eyes was rather uneventful. I’d been awarded and achieved goals that not many people get to experience but chalked it up to luck and the hard work given to my vocal studies. Those moments have been documented in writing and photos for the history books. Child model, Homecoming Queen, featured guest artist on stage and television, Miss America, Broadway, etc. I had a gift in the field of the arts and mother tried to cultivate those talents. I know she sacrificed to give me those opportunities and for that I am appreciative. But what happens when the life you’ve lived becomes turned on its side, upside down, or does a dizzying full circle and you learn a secret has been kept from you? Was it out of love and to protect me? Was it to not bring shame upon the family? Was there ever an agreement to share the truth with me when I reached a certain age in adulthood? Mother never had the courage to tell me and she outlived ALMOST everyone who knew the truth. I feel she was ashamed and that late in life…what did it matter? Well, it matters to me. My children and my grandchildren deserve to know their history too.
Dorothy Benham
THE APOLOGY, by Eve Ensler
Written as if it were a letter from Ensler’s father, it recounts the sexual, physical, and psychological abuse he inflicted on her from the ages of five to 10, and acknowledges the reverberating effects on her life.
WHEN GOD SAYS NO: Revealing the YES when adversity and loss are present by Judith Briles
When Judith Briles’ nineteen-year-old son was accidentally drowned in an accident, she never dreamed that her terrible loss would introduce her to the four most valuable gifts she would ever receive.