Helpful Resources

Resources

Lab-Created videos and posters on sexual violence, teen pregnancy, and mental health outcomes

Krik Krak mental health project funded by the Grand Challenges Exploration Round 20 of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Visit Krik Krak's Website 

other resources

interNational Organizations

Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

(From their website): CDC is the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public’s health. For more than 70 years, we’ve put science into action to help children stay healthy so they can grow and learn; to help families, businesses, and communities fight disease and stay strong; and to protect the public’s health.

Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

(From their website): UNAIDS generates strategic information and analysis that increases the understanding of the state of the AIDS epidemic and progress made at the local, national, regional and global levels. It leads the world’s most extensive data collection on HIV epidemiology, programme coverage and finance and publishes the most authoritative and up-to-date information on the HIV epidemic—vital for an effective AIDS response. UNAIDS produces data for impact—no major report, speech or policy initiative on HIV has been launched or made without referring to data collected and released by UNAIDS.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 

Men and Boys Take Action

Launched by the United Nations Population Fund, this conversation brought a panel of leaders and thematic experts to discuss gender-based violence (GBV) among people of African descent, technology facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) and strategies for engaging men and boys of African descent in ending GBV. Speakers include Founding Chair of CariMAN Peter Douglas Weller, A Call to Men Training Director Rickie Houston, South African young activist Nonhlanhla Chanza, UNFPA Brazil Focal Point Luana Silva with an artistic performance by surrealist blues poet Aja Monet.

Men and Boys Take Action 

Webinar 

Mom Power

(From their website): Mom Power, a Strong Roots program, is a 10-week, 13-session theory-driven treatment using an innovative and proven curriculum that is specifically designed to target trauma-induced barriers to healthy relationships, social support, and engagement with resources and services. Mom Power embraces evidence-based theory and practice and is the only program, to date, that has documented brain changes in participants “empathy circuits”.

Mom Power 

Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)

(From their website): The SVRI is the world’s largest network on research on violence against women and violence against children, providing a space where global role players in the field connect with one another, share and promote their research, work to influence policies and improve the lives of those who have experienced gender-based violence. We do this through funding research, strengthening research capacity, promoting partnerships and influencing change.

Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) 

United Nations World Health Organization (WHO)

(From their website): WHO leads global efforts to expand universal health coverage. We direct and coordinate the world’s response to health emergencies. And we promote healthier lives – from pregnancy care through old age. Our Triple Billion targets outline an ambitious plan for the world to achieve good health for all using science-based policies and programmes.

United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) 

national organizations

Violence Related Resources

Address Confidentiality Programs

Clinic to End Tech Abuse How-To Guides
Note: Cornell University’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse website includes a collection of materials, tools, and resources created to help IPV survivors, support workers, and technologists discover and address tech-related risks.

Crisis Text Line
Text 'HOME' to 741741

HFSS - Hindu Family Support Services

Love Is Respect
1-866-331-9474; 1-800-787-3224 (TTY); Text 'LOVEIS' to 22522

National Center for Victims of Crime
1-202-467-8700

National Domestic Violence Hotline
1−800−799−7233 or TTY 1−800−787−3224

NIWAP Directory of Programs Serving Immigrant Victims
Note: A directory of service providers with experience working with immigrant victims of stalking, domestic violence, sexual assault, U-visa crimes, and human trafficking, by state.

South Asian SOAR
Note: A collective of survivors, organizations, and allies advancing the national movement to end gender-based violence in the South Asian diaspora. They offer a list of South Asian organizations located across the U.S.

The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The National Sexual Assault Hotline
1-800-656 HOPE (4673)

The U.S. National Network to End Domestic Violence’s (NNEDV) Safety Net Project

Victim Connect
1-855-4 VICTIM (1-855-484-2846)

WomensLaw
Email hotline with plain language legal information for victims of abuse.

Mental Health Resources

MannMukti (South Asian mental health resources)

National Alliance on Mental Illness
1-800-950-NAMI (6264); Text: 62640; Chat: nami.org/help

Psychology Today's Therapist Directory  

Office on Women's Health

South Asian Mental Health Initiative & Network (SAMHIN)

South Asian Therapists Directory

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)’s National Helpline
1-800-662-HELP (4357)

Suicide Prevention LIFEline: 800-273-TALK (8255) or dial 988

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

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