US-Based Groups that Help Individuals Leave Violent Extremist Movements

• Life After Hate – Founded by former extremists, this organization helps individuals disengage from violent far-right groups and hateful online spaces.

• Parents For Peace – Helps family and friends intervene when loved ones are swept up in violent extremist movements.
  

Advocacy Groups Working to Stop Sexual Violence

• Sisters Against Violent Extremism (SAVE) – The first women’s anti-terror platform.

• Women Without Borders – An advocacy, PR and lobbying organization for women around the globe.

• Justice Solutions – A web site by crime victim professionals for crime victim professionals.

• Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) – The nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization.

• National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) – The nation’s principle information and resource center regarding all aspects of sexual violence.

• Pandora’s Project – Dedicated to providing information, support, and resources to survivors of rape and sexual abuse and their friends and family. Offers peer support online through Pandora’s Aquarium.

• National Organization for Women (NOW) – The largest organization of feminist activists in the United States works to stop violence against women, among many other issues to bring about equality for all women.

• Speaking Out About Rape (SOAR) – Runs national awareness, education and prevention programs to empower survivors of sexual violence and enhance the public’s understanding and acceptance of rape victims.

• After Silence – A web-based organization, message board, and chat room for rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse survivors.

• The Survivors Club – Dedicated to helping people in crisis survive and thrive.

• Men Can Stop Rape – Mobilizes male youth to prevent men’s violence against women.

PTSD Information and Resources

• The National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD) – the Federal research and education agency within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

• The National Center for Victims of Crime – Serves victims of any kind of crime, including those whose victimization results in PTSD.

• Vets 4 Vets – Offers free peer support for Iraq/Afghanistan-era vets.

• The Coming Home Project – Offers care and support for vets.

• Purple Star Veterans and Families – A source for help lines, places to turn, free military family counseling and veteran retreats, PTSD information

• Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America – The nation’s first and largest group dedicated to the troops and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the civilian supporters of those troops and veterans.

• MyVetwork – The online social networking community for individuals in the US military and their spouses, families and friends.

• Home Base Program – A partnership created by The Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital designed to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their families.

• Strategic Outreach to Families of All Reservists – A program to aid the families and loved ones of army Reservists and National Guard deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait.

• ONE Freedom – Offers service members, veterans and military families education and training to maintain balance in the face of military deployments and other lifestyle challenges.

• U.S. Army Medical Department Army Behavioral Health – Information and resources for soldiers, families, and friends.

• The Soldier Billboard Project – Brings to the open air in America a subtle reminder of the realities of war. The controversial billboards ask viewers to think about soldiers, about the human cost of war and about the psychological struggles of veterans and their families, and then reach their own conclusions.

• EMDR Institute – Some studies suggest that EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) can be an effective treatment.

• Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute
  

Artist Organizations & Associations

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation – Fellowships to assist research and artistic creation.

• MacDowell – The oldest artists’ colony in the U.S. nurtures the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination.

• Yaddo – The mission of this artists’ community is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.