Safety-Promoting Programs and Services
- RightRides: www.rightrides.org
Offers women and LGBTQ individuals a free, safe, late night ride home on Friday and Saturday nights from 11:59 PM - 3 AM, (early Saturday or Sunday morning) in 45 NYC neighborhoods across four NYC boroughs. To call for a ride, the dispatch number is (888) 215-SAFE (7233). - Center for Anti-violence Education: www.caeny.org
Provides violence prevention and empowerment programs throughout New York City. Through a unique combination of physical self-defense techniques, discussions, role-plays, and community building, participants build strength to end violence in their lives and communities. Believing that everyone has the right to live free from violence, we focus on communities especially at risk – women, LGBT individuals, teens, children – and provide low-cost and free programs that help participants prevent, counter and heal from sexual violence, intimate partner violence, hate/bias crimes, abuse and harassment.
Resources for Survivors
- Brooklyn Resources for Survivors: http://www.svfreenyc.org/resource_list2_Brooklyn.html
- The Healing Center: http://www.thehealingcenter.org/
Our vision allows us to create a model sexual trauma service agency committed to providing integrative and holistic services to adult survivors. We embody the best practices of scholarship, experience and, most importantly, survivor wisdom. We operate from a philosophy of abundance, inviting all to share their gifts as part of healing our community. We believe healing is possible for everyone. We are honored to be a part of the journey - Manar Project, Arab American Family Support Center: http://www.aafscny.org/programs/the-manar-project
The Manar project was created to address the critical need for culturally and linguistically competent services for victims of domestic violence, teen dating violence, sexual assault and stalking in the Arab American community. Through our partnership with the Brooklyn Family Justice Center, victims and survivors of violence receive assistance in a safe and comfortable environment. - RAINN: http://www.rainn.org/ | National Sexual Assault Hotline | 1.800.656.HOPE(4673) | Free. Confidential. 24/7.
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. - Safe Homes Project: http://www.goodshepherds.org/programs/community/shp.html
A community-based domestic violence advocacy and service program which provides a hotline, counseling, safety-planning and advocacy for survivors of domestic violence and runs a 20-bed shelter. SHP also provides education and training about domestic and intimate partner violence to professional and community groups throughout New York, works to improve laws and policies affecting survivors, and provides targeted services for special populations, including Spanish-speakers, youth, and LGBTQ survivors of partner violence. The Safe Homes Project is committed to working to eradicate domestic and partner violence and to providing the support, information, and advocacy needed for individuals and communities to live safely. - Safe Horizon: http://www.safehorizon.org
Safe Horizon is the largest victims’ services agency in the United States, with 57 locations serving more than 250,000 children, adults, and families affected by crime and abuse throughout New York City each year. Since 1978, Safe Horizon has provided victims of domestic violence, child abuse, human trafficking, rape and sexual assault, as well as homeless youth and families of homicide victims, with a wide range of comprehensive support. - SAVI: http://www.mssm.edu/departments-and-institutes/obstetrics-gynecology-and-reproductive-science/programs-and-services/sexual-assault-and-violence-intervention-program/
The mission of the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI) is to provide free and confidential psychotherapy, counseling, advocacy, support and referral services to past and present survivors of rape, sexual assault, incest, domestic violence and sex trafficking, as well as their families and friends. SAVI also educates the public and professional communities regarding services and critical issues surrounding rape, sexual assault, and domestic violence. - Support New York: http://supportny.org/
A collective dedicated to healing the effects of sexual assault and abuse. Our aim is to meet the needs of the survivor, to hold accountable those who have perpetrated harm, and to maintain a larger dialogue within the community about consent, mutual aid, and our society’s narrow views of abuse.
Anti-Violence Advocacy
- The Anti-Violence Project: http://www.avp.org/
The New York City Anti-Violence Project is dedicated to eliminating hate violence, sexual assault, stalking, and domestic violence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities through counseling, advocacy, organizing, and public education. - Audre Lorde Project: http://alp.org/
The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities. - Hollaback!: http://www.ihollaback.org/
A movement dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology. Street harassment is one of the most pervasive forms of gender-based violence and one of the least legislated against. It is rarely reported, and it’s culturally accepted as ‘the price you pay’ for being a woman or for being gay. At Hollaback!, we don’t buy it. - The Line Campaign: http://whereisyourline.org/
A non-profit organization and movement that is committed to empowering young leaders to create a world without sexual violence. We create critical dialogues and original media to inspire action. We develop leadership among diverse groups of people reaching and mobilizing them in their communities. - Men Can Stop Rape: http://www.mencanstoprape.org/
Men Can Stop Rape seeks to mobilize men to use their strength for creating cultures free from violence, especially men’s violence against women. - New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault: http://www.svfreenyc.org/
The mission of the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault is to build the capacity of communities, organizations, and institutions to advance the right to live free from sexual violence and reduce the harm it causes individuals, families, and society. - SAFER: http://www.safercampus.org/
All students have the right to a safe campus, free of sexual violence. SAFER empowers students to hold their universities accountable for having strong campus sexual assault policies and programming. We’re here to help you organize for change. - Silvia Rivera Law Project: http://srlp.org/; In Spanish: http://srlp.org/enespanol
Works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence. SRLP works to improve access to respectful and affirming social, health, and legal services for our communities. We believe that in order to create meaningful political participation and leadership, we must have access to basic means of survival and safety from violence. - Slutwalk NYC: http://slutwalknyc.com/
No one has the right to touch you without your consent. SlutWalk NYC is part of a worldwide grassroots movement challenging rape culture, victim-blaming and slut-shaming, and working to end sexual and domestic violence. - Stop Street Harassment: http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/
Works to raise awareness about the global problem of gender-based street harassment and illustrate how it is a human rights issue that impedes gender equality. Stop Street Harassment provides people with a place to share their stories, access resources, and find ideas for action to stop street harassment in their community.
