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The Center provides resources to help individuals and communities recover from incidents of mass violence. Find resources on victim and social services, social connection and empowerment, health and wellness, and managing grief and trauma. The Center can also coordinate with local officials after an incident to create a community-specific resource page.

Survivors.org provides support and healing tools for survivors of sexual violence. This website can help survivors find local service providers, hotlines, holistic healing resources, and community-specific support. This OVC-funded project is operated by PAVE (Promoting Awareness | Victim Empowerment).

SurvivorSpace offers self-care and resiliency tips and tools for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Funded by OVC through a grant to the Zero Abuse Project, this website is a safe space for survivors informed by survivors. It offers visitors an opportunity to explore their options, use interactive tools to help them on their healing journey, connect with others, and more.

The Directory is designed to help crime victims and service providers find nonemergency crime victim service agencies in the United States and abroad.

This demonstration project was designed to reach underserved children, youth, and families in Illinois, Montana, Ohio, and Virginia who are victims of crime. The four demonstration sites worked in their states to meet the needs of children and youth (and their caregivers) who had been exposed to violence. A Coordinator Toolkit provides guidance and tools for jurisdictions interested in replicating this project.

This OVC-funded initiative provides evidence-based information, training, and other resources for communities so they can effectively prepare for and respond to mass violence incidents.

VictimConnect serves victims of any crime in the United States. Trained specialists are available to help crime victims with emotional support, information, and confidential referrals for mental health counseling, financial compensation, legal services, and more. Call or text 855-4VICTIM (855-484-2846) or chat online, Monday–Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. eastern time.

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services at the U.S. Department of Justice, in partnership with the National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children, created a four-part training series to help professionals serve the needs of drug endangered children. The training covers an overview of the issue, the long-term impact and needs of drug endangered children, prenatal substance exposure, and postnatal substance exposure.

This program offers direct services to victims including crisis intervention, referrals and information for mental and emotional health and other types of specialized responses, and provides emergency services and transportation, as well as follow up for additional assistance.

The Disaster Distress Helpline is dedicated to providing year-round disaster crisis counseling. This 24/7 toll free crisis support service is available to residents in the United States and its territories who are experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters. Call or text the hotline at 800-985-5990.

You have the right to examine your medical records from your medical and pharmacy providers to verify that the information is accurate. If your request to review your medical records is refused, you may submit a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

OVC manages AEAP, which offers five funding streams to provide timely relief to communities affected by domestic terrorism and criminal mass violence for immediate and ongoing victim assistance services in the form of grants. Qualifying applicants include state victim assistance and compensation programs, public agencies, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, and more.

This ongoing, nationally representative survey gathers timely and reliable national and state-level data on sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence victimization from adult women and men in the United States. It describes who is most likely to experience these forms of violence and information on the impacts and health consequences associated with these types of violence.

The Fund is a federally funded program that was established to compensate for physical harm or death caused by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, or the debris removal efforts. It provides compensation to individuals (or a personal representative of a deceased individual) who were present at one of the three crash sites and who have since been diagnosed with a 9/11-related physical illness, as...

This program provides medical monitoring and treatment of World Trade Center-related health conditions for 9/11 responders and survivors.

The Center aims 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 provides educational resources about PTSD and other enduring consequences of traumatic stress.

This toll free service (800-677-1116) helps older adults and their caregivers find local services for seniors, including home care, transportation, housing alternatives, home repair, recreation, social activities, and legal and other community services. The directory is a service of the U.S. Administration for Community Living.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is Nation's leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public's health. The agency promotes educational activities designed to improve environmental and personal health nationwide.

The Office on Women's Health coordinates women's health efforts across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and addresses critical women's health issues by informing and advancing policies, educating health care professionals and consumers, and supporting innovative programs.

The Indian Health Service is responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives.

This national campaign seeks to raise awareness, teach skills, and inspire public action to address children's exposure to violence and trauma. Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this campaign seeks to engage teachers, coaches, counselors, doctors, nurses, law enforcement officers, and other professionals and caregivers on proven ways to help heal the damage of childhood trauma.

This resource helps patients understand health privacy laws.

The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention fosters hospital and community collaborations to advance equitable, trauma-informed care, and violence intervention and prevention in hospital-based violence intervention programs.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Center provides technical assistance, training, and materials to increase the knowledge and expertise of suicide prevention practitioners and other professionals serving people at risk for suicide.

This organization's mission is to break the cycle of abuse and neglect by empowering practitioners who work to transform the lives of children and families living in drug environments. The Alliance provides training and technical assistance to state drug-endangered children alliances and all those in the community who assist and care for drug-endangered children.

The Network works to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities throughout the United States.

The National Indian Council on Aging, Inc. advocates for American Indian and Alaska Native elders, striving to better the lives of the Nation's Indigenous seniors through advocacy, employment training, dissemination of information, and data support.

This clearinghouse offers information about self-help support groups and regional self-help clearinghouses. They also provide self-help links, training and consultation, public outreach, and related publications and policy papers.

Through its Survivor Support Network and other specialized programs, this foundation increases services available to families of fallen firefighters.

The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families provides support and training locally, nationally, and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief.

The American Academy of Pediatrics committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

The International Association of Forensic Nurses provides leadership in forensic nursing practice by developing, promoting, and disseminating information internationally about forensic nursing science.

In addition to domestic disaster relief, the American Red Cross offers compassionate services in five other areas: support and comfort for military members and their families; the collection, processing and distribution of lifesaving blood and blood products; educational programs that promote health and safety; and international relief and development programs.

The Center is devoted to achieving a better understanding the scope, nature, and mental health impact of exposure to crime and other traumatic events. The Center strives to improve the mental health of victims of crime and other traumatic events through research, education, prevention, treatment, public policy consultation, and collaboration.

The Center provides trauma-informed treatments and services to children and families, builds professional knowledge through clinical research, and advances the field of child trauma treatment through collaboration, training, and dissemination.

The Institute promotes excellence in trauma-informed services to organizations nationally and internationally who treat clients with histories of psychological trauma and attachment disruptions.

This organization provides the ongoing emotional support needed to help parents and other survivors facilitate the reconstruction of a "new life" and to promote healthy grief resolution.

The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies shares information about the effects of trauma, reducing traumatic stressors, and clinical strategies. Its website offers journals and related resources for the public, professionals, and the media.

Concerns of Police Survivors provides resources to help rebuild the lives of survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

The American Psychological Association offers information on posttraumatic stress disorder and a Disaster Response Network, which includes more than 1,500 psychologists who volunteer to provide free onsite mental health services to disaster survivors and the relief workers who assist them.

The American Psychiatric Association works to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorders, including intellectual disabilities and substance-related disorders.

Adult Survivors of Child Abuse helps survivors of child abuse transform their self-identities from that of victim to that of survivor and, ultimately, thriver. The site includes resource materials and guidelines for establishing support networks.

This organization seeks to enhance agency- and system-level responses to survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their families through comprehensive training and technical assistance, research and evaluation, policy development, and public awareness.

This Victim Services Directory was created by the Department of Justice Canada to help service providers, victims, and individuals locate services for victims of crime across Canada.

Trauma Intervention Programs, Inc. assists citizen volunteers who respond to traumatic incidents at the request of police, fire, and medical personnel.

The Academy on Violence and Abuse exists to advance health education and research on the prevention, recognition, and treatment of the health effects of violence and abuse.

This association helps set the agenda and determine the direction of state mental health agency interests across the country, historically including state mental health planning, service delivery, and evaluation.

The mission of this network is to eliminate violence through advancing nursing education, practice, research, and public policy.

The mission of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc. is to provide leadership, education, training, consultation, and support services in comprehensive crisis intervention and disaster behavioral health services to the emergency response professions, other organizations, and communities worldwide.

The Child Witness to Violence Project is a counseling, advocacy, and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are bystanders to community and domestic violence.