Learn More About Helping Survivors
Our Mission
Helping Survivors is on a mission to help heal, educate, and empower people who have been impacted by sexual abuse, assault, or harassment.
Founded in 2022, we are a passionate group of experts and advocates who believe individuals who have experienced sexual assault, abuse, or harassment deserve to know their rights and options.
When an individual experiences sexual harm, they often do not label the experience, tell anyone, or seek outside assistance until much later. This happens for a variety of reasons — but survivors deserve support whether the harm happened yesterday or fifty years ago.
Most survivors don’t understand their rights and options — whether that means reporting to law enforcement, filing a civil lawsuit, reporting someone to a professional board, or the other various rights and options they have as survivors of sexual assault, abuse, or harassment.
Each individual’s experience is different — and so are their healing journeys. We want to help provide transparent and honest information about survivor rights and options to help individuals take the next step in their journey.
How We Can Help
Legal Help
We share information regarding legal rights and options and can introduce you to law firms experienced in helping survivors.
Introductions
We can introduce you to organizations who specialize with mental health support to legal assistance and beyond.
Information
Our content and each response to survivors is crafted with sincerity and authenticity by experts with firsthand experience.
Meet The Experts
Helping Survivors works with a team of sexual abuse experts including advocates, nonprofits, law firms, and businesses to help ensure we have unique insights, stories, and perspectives in all of the work that we do. If you or someone you know is interested in contributing to our work, you can get in touch with us.
Featured Law Firms
Helping Survivors works with a variety of organizations, including law firms. These law firms help us craft helpful content and provide information to survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and harassment understand their legal rights and options.
If you reach out to Helping Survivors, a representative from a law firm may contact you directly in regards to filing a civil case if they believe they may be able to represent you.
What We Do & Who We Help
Helping Survivors is an organization designed to help individuals who have experienced sexual assault and abuse. Whether someone refers to themselves as a victim, survivor, or other terminology is up to them — we believe that all of their experiences are valid and are here to help each individual in their unique journeys.
We believe in empowering survivors with knowledge regarding their rights and options, even if it can sometimes be hard for individuals to hear the someitmes unfortunate reality of the limitations within the legal systems. For example, many survivors do not understand that they do not have the ability to press charges or know about the statute of limitations laws across each jurisdiction. We hope that by being honest and empathetic while also transparent and honest in all of our content and communications, individuals can fully understand their rights and options along with the risks and potential outcomes of each.
While it can be hard to initially hear that an offense can’t be prosecuted or about the financial costs and realities of filing a civil lawsuit, we believe that knowing the truth is better than misleading survivors with false hope and false ideas. You can’t confidently take the first step in a journey if you don’t know the path ahead. We hope that by shining a light on the survivor’s rights and options and providing transparent and authentic information about the reality of these options that survivors can move forward and find healing.
