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5 Waves

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assault, Incest, Sibling Sexual Trauma and Abuse

Founded by

Five women who experienced sibling sexual assault, including 3 who use pen names, Maria Socolof, and Jane Epstein.

Website:

https://www.5waves.org/

Service goals:

Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention

Active?

YES

Year_Founded

2021

After Silence

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assault, Incest, Rape, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Sexual Violence and Violation

Founded by

Nancy Venable Raine a rape survivor.

Website:

https://www.aftersilence.org

Service goals:

Support

Active?

YES

Year_Founded

2003

Alexandra Gucci Children’s Foundation

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assault, Incest

Founded by

Alexandra Gucci who was sexually abused from age 6 to 22 by step-father Joseph Ruffalo.

Website:

https://www.alexandragucci.org/about

Service goals:

Awareness, Advocacy, Prevention

Active?

YES

Year_Founded

2020

Foundation for Survivors of Abuse

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse, Incest, Statute of Limitations

Founded by

Sisters Desirae and Deondra Brown, incest survivors.

Website:

https://survivingabuse.org/

Service goals:

Awareness, Advocacy

Active?

YES

Year_Founded

2015

Handing the Shame Back (HTSB)

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assault, Incest

Founded by

Gloria Masters who was severely physically, sexually, and emotionally abused as a child by her father.

Website:

https://www.handingtheshameback.org/

Service goals:

Awareness, Support, Prevention

Active?

YES

Year_Founded

2022

Healing from Sexual Abuse

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse, Incest

Founded by

Amy Marschak who is a survivor of incest and who had experienced repressed memories of it.

Website:

https://healingfromsexualabuse.com/

Service goals:

Awareness, Support

Active?

YES

M*OASIS

Crime Type(s):

Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assault, Co-survivors and supporters of a survivor of incest and sexual abuse, Incest

Founded by

An anonymous mother who learned from her daughter while her daughter was in college, that her she had been sexually abused as a child by her grandfather, the mother's father.

Website:

https://www.moasissupport.com/

Service goals:

Awareness, Support, Prevention

Active?

YES

Year_Founded

2021

MOSAC: Mothers of Sexually Abused Children

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse, Incest

Founded by

Dr. Mel Langston who is a mother of sexually abused children.

Website:

https://www.mosac.net/

Service goals:

Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention

Active?

YES

Overcoming Sexual Abuse– free Ebook and articles

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assault, Childhood Sexual Abuse by a Trusted Adult, Incest

Founded by

Christina Enevoldsen, who was sexually abused by her father, and her daughter Bethany who was sexually abused by her own father, the abusive husband of Christina.

Website:

https://overcomingsexualabuse.com/

Service goals:

Support

Active?

YES

Year_Founded

2009

Pandora’s Project

Crime Type(s):

Childhood Sexual Abuse, Incest, Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence and Violation

Founded by

Shannon Lambert who was raped by a school acquaintance at age 15, and didn't tell a soul. At age 19, she told the world.

Website:

https://pandys.org/

Service goals:

Awareness, Support

Active?

YES

Year_Founded

1999