Are You Being Battered or Abused?

Batteredwomen.com
"Our goal is to provide the 'abused and battered victims' of the world information they can use to either get out of the situation they are currently in or get advice from other abused victims that may help them. We are growing rapidly and continue to add much needed resources every day. If you think that women are weak because they stay in an abusive relationship, think again. Violence against women and children continues to rise and only with awareness,resources, and guidance, can we help stop the cycle. Resource for shelters in every state, attorneys, hotline numbers, information about abuse, how women can help themselves, safety plans, divorce information, beliefs of abusers and victims, characteristics of abusers and victims, lesbian battering and abuse, message boards."
www.batteredwomen.com

Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project
BWLAP, a statewide, non-profit organization provides legal information, consultation, training, litigation and legal resource support, and policy development assistance to battered women and to criminal justice, legal and social service systems.
http://www.bwlap.org/default.html

Safe Horizon Shelter Tour and Domestic Violence Information Site
http://www.dvsheltertour.org/

Justice for Women
Justice For Women is a feminist organisation that campaigns and supports women who have fought back against or killed violent male partners.
http://www.jfw.org.uk/index.htm

National Battered Women’s Hotlines

National Domestic Violence Hotline
(800) 799-SAFE (7233)
The hotline is staffed 24 hours a day by trained counselors who can provide crisis assistance and information about shelters, legal advocacy, health care centers, and counseling. There is also a toll-free number for the hearing-impaired, 1-800-787-3224.

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
(800) 537-2238

The Lesbian Alliance-- WomanSpace
http://www.enddomesticviolence.com/aboutus/LesbianAlliance.asp
For times when a lesbian advocate is available, call the Womenspace crisis line at
(541)485-8232, 1-800-281-2800, or (541)484-7262 (TDD), or the drop-in Advocacy Center at (541)484-6103
Lesbian battering is the pattern of violent and coercive behaviors whereby a woman seeks to control the thoughts, beliefs or conduct of her intimate partner, or to punish her intimate partner for resisting the perpetrator's control over her. Resistance and self-defense do not constitute "mutual battering".

Rape and Sexual Assault

Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN)
(800) 656-HOPE
This is a national number that will automatically transfer you to the rape crisis center nearest you, anywhere in the nation. It can be used as a last resort if people cannot find a domestic violence shelter.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International
http://www.catwinternational.org/

Children of the Night
(818) 908-4474
(800) 551-1300 (hotline)
http://www.childrenofthenight.org
Quitting prostitution is like quitting the Mafia. Dedicated to assisting children aged 11-17 who are sexually abused and who prostitute on the streets for food and shelter.

Runaways

Youth Crisis, Runaway Hotline
(800) 448-4663/ HIT-HOME

National Runaway Switchboard
(800) 621-4000

Crime Witnesses/Victims

Crime Victims/Witness Hotline
(800) 242-0804
The hotline is staffed 24 hours a day by trained counselors who can provide crisis assistance and information about shelters, legal advocacy, health care centers, and counseling. There is also a toll-free number for the hearing-impaired, 1-800-787-3224.

Divorce/Child Custody Crises

The Liz Library Collections
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/~liz/liz/
This site contains an incredibly comprehensive and thorough researching and documentation of so-called "Father’s Rights" strategies and agendas which seek to prevent women from obtaining dissolutions, fair property settlements, custody of children, child support. There are extensive quotes from the leaders and founders of this movement which are all the evidence you will ever need that in the US in the year 2001, many men do indeed hate women, including women they have married. This is a very sobering site, but a goddess send for women who are shocked by what happens to them in court when they attempt to divorce a man.

Divorceinfo.com
http://www.divorceinfo.com/aboutdivorceinfo.htm
"Divorceinfo.com is all about one simple principle: helping people who are going through divorce. I do this by giving you the information you need to stay in control of your divorce."

Financial Crisis

The YWCA
The YWCA of the U.S.A. is a leading national provider of housing and shelter for women and their families. YWCAs locally offer a spectrum of services, including basic lifeskills training, English as a second language courses, GED classes, adult education, welfare-to-work programs, employability skills training, employment training, career counseling, entrepreneurial workshops, non-traditional job training, and more. Local programs are tailored to meet the needs of women, their families, and employers in their communities.
http://www.ywca.org/B1.asp

The Box Project -- A Program of Friendship, Material Aid, Information and Action
Begun by Coretta Scott King, the Box Project has been fighting poverty in rural America since 1962. Its mission is to encourage families and individuals living in rural poverty in America to become self-sufficient and to overcome the cycle of poverty through individuals and families, one-on-one, offering friendship, education, and material aid to other individuals and families who become friends.
http://www.boxproject.org/

Dress for Success
Dress for Success provides interview suits, confidence boosts and career development to more than 30,000 women in over 70 cities each year. Dress for Success is a not-for-profit organization that helps low-income women make tailored transitions into the workforce. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has a job interview and a second suit when she gets the job. The Dress for Success Professional Women's Group program then provides ongoing support to help the client build a successful career.
http://www.dressforsuccess.org/

Modest Needs
Modest Needs is a website devoted to individuals pooling their resources every month to help individuals meet small financial needs that they simply cannot afford to pay on their own.
http://www.modestneeds.org/

Wider Opportunities for Women
Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) works nationally and in its home community of Washington, DC to achieve economic independence and equality of opportunity for women and girls. For more than 35 years, WOW has helped women learn to earn, with programs emphasizing literacy, technical and nontraditional skills, welfare-to-work transition, and career development. Since 1964, WOW has trained more than 10,000 women for well paid work.
http://wowonline.org/

Spiritual Crisis/Abuse in Religious Homes

ReFocus
A network of referral and support for former members of closed, high demand groups, relationships or cults.
(904) 439-7541
email: torefocus@aol.com

Walk Away
For ex-fundamentalists, born againers, survivors of spiritual abuse
http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/wa/recovery.html

Protection of the Theotokos
A site for survivors of abuse in the Orthodox Church
http://www.pokrov.org/index.htm

Therapy Abuse -- A site for Therapy Abuse Survivors
and Supportive Others
http://therapy-abuse.healthyplace2.com/