- Anna Foundation
The Anna Foundation is dedicated to the celebration of Anna Caroline Jennings' life through exhibiting her incredible art work as well as using her life experience to educate others on the epidemic of childhood sexual abuse and its horrific effects on the individual and society.
- CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) works to reduce morbidity, disability, mortality, and costs associated with injuries, including injuries due to violence.
- Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative
The Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative (DVMHPI) is an innovative Chicago-based project designed to address the unmet mental health needs of domestic violence survivors and their children.
- Mental Health America
Mental Health America is the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness - working to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million individuals with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and service.
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs of the Nation's Public Mental Health System through policy development, information dissemination, and technical assistance.
- National Center for Children Exposed to Violence
The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV) is a primary national resource center for anyone seeking training, technical assistance, consultation and information about the effects of violence on children and the initiatives designed to address this problem, including a dynamic body of literature, Internet resources and a bibliography database.
- National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder's mission is to advance the clinical care and social welfare of America's veterans through research, education, and training in the science, diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD and stress-related disorders. This website is an educational resource concerning PTSD and other enduring consequences of traumatic stress.
- National Center for Victims of Crime
The National Center for Victims of Crime is the nation's leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims. Since 1985, we have worked with more than 10,000 grassroots organizations and criminal justice agencies serving millions of crime victims.
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The Mission of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is to organize for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives.
- New York City Administration for Children's Services
ACS's mission is to ensure the safety and well-being of all the children of New York. With a top-to-bottom reform effort underway, ACS is transforming NYC child welfare services into a neighborhood-based system where children and families get the services they need close to home.
- Pittsburgh Action Against Rape
One of the oldest rape crisis centers in the nation.
- Rape, Abuse, and Incest National (RAIN) Network
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.
- Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
Works to improve services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disabilities and their families by strengthening the knowledge base for effective services and systems of care.
- Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
Works towards promoting effective community-based, culturally competent, family-centered services for families and their children who are, or may be affected by mental, emotional or behavioral disorders.
- Rethinking Domestic Violence: A Training Process for Community Activists
This program tool was developed by Raising Voices in collaboration with the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention. The Training Process is a tool for strengthening the capacity of a wide range of community members to prevent domestic violence. It is a series of training sessions that can be used individually or as a part of a longer process. It will help participants think about, discuss and take action to prevent domestic violence. It is a practical tool for trainers and activists who want to begin a process of change in their community.
- Ritual Abuse, Ritual Crime and Healing
Ritual abuse, recovery and cult information for survivors, therapists, and others.
- Self-Injury and Related Issues
SIARI aims to raise awareness of self-injury, as well as offering hope, and enlightenment to those who self-injure, their kith and kin, and those who work alongside people who hurt themselves. The site will be of value to anyone wishing to gain insight into the complex and much-misunderstood phenomenon of self-injury, and the issues that surround it.
- Sidran Institute
On of the nation’s leading providers of education and resources on traumatic stress, training and consulting on treating and managing traumatic stress, information and advocacy on current issues related to trauma, and publications on traumatic stress.
- The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
An ongoing collaboration between Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, California, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ACE Study reveals a powerful relationship between our emotional experiences as children and our physical and mental health as adults, as well as the major causes of adult mortality in the United States. It documents the conversion of traumatic emotional experiences in childhood into organic disease later in life.
- The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress
The Academy's mission is to increase the awareness of the effects of trauma and ultimately to improve the quality of intervention.
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The mission of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States. This site includes an article on school planning for disasters and the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
- The National Trauma Consortium
The National Trauma Consortium (NTC) was developed to raise public awareness about the prevalence of trauma and its wide-ranging impact on people’s lives. The NTC functions as a clearinghouse of information about trauma and emerging best practices in trauma treatment and services and offers training and consultation services to mental health and substance abuse providers, hospitals, the criminal justice system, child-serving agencies, women’s organizations, community agencies, advocates, and others.
- Trauma Services Associates Treatment and Training Institute
Trauma Service Associates (TSA) Recognized the Wide-Spread Problem of Psychological Trauma and has been addressing it through it's Trauma Services Associates Treatment and Training Institute.
- Witness Justice
Witness JusticeTM is a national nonprofit organization committed to directly serving survivors of violent crime in the U.S. Our goal is to provide trauma victims and their loved ones with access to information and support to promote healing (physically, psychologically and spiritually) and to establish a sense of personal justice, no matter where they live or the nature of the violent crime committed against them.
The information above was taken, in part, from material provided by SAMHSA.
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