A disclaimer of sorts.

A little wimpiness before we get started. Please read it for context.

Links that'll be here someday.

This isn't really a general resource, but it is a semi-organized list of sites that I intend to add links to. This link may go down as I restructure things, but let's just enjoy it while we can.

The Abuse and Violence sections of ClinicalSocialWork.com

Pat McLendon has done quite a good job of gathering information on abuse and violence as part of her site on clinical social work.

Domestic Violence Prevention and Resources

From the Women's Issues Section of About.com

Battered Men - The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence

This information on Domestic Violence and abuse is documenting Husband Abuse and challenging statistics that contend that men are the bulk of the problem in Abuse and Domestic Violence. My view on this gender question might interest you. This site is anti-feminist. You have been warned.

Violence Against Women in the United States:

A brief annotated article outline the problem of violence against women. Being that it's on now.org, do you have to guess whether it's feminist or not?

Shattered Love Broken Lives -- Domestic Violence Menu

More than 60 articles, published over 11 days, explore domestic violence - its causes, its victims, and some solutions. It includes a somewhat dated Guide to domestic violence resources

MINCAVA: Violence Against Women

The Violence Against Women section of the Minnesota Higher Education Center Against Violence and Abuse site. The University of Minnesota is also home to the Gophers and gopher technology.

Ritual Abuse and Healing Home Page

This home page is designed primarily to give support, information, and encouragement to survivors. A second goal is to make information available to all who are interested in the field. Ritual Abuse is a very controversial area, and this is the best site I've seen on the topic.

Shattered Lives--Living on the Edge of Fear

Shattered Lives is a film produced by non-profit Idanha Films showing the affects of family violence.

Red Letters

The goal of this site is to provide a forum and avenue for abuse survivors to anonymously post letters to their abuser.

The Wounded Healer Journal

Another of the oldest sites in dealing with trauma recovery, this site has discussion forums and an extensive list of hundreds of links related to healing.

Prevention Yellow Pages: Abuse Listing

An extensive list of abuse prevention information and resources, produced by the Texas Youth Commission.

Healthy Relationships

Healthy Relationships is a violence prevention curriculum developed by Men for Change.

Peter B's Book Breaking the Cycle

Peter is a recovering child molester who frequents alt.abuse.offender.recovery. I've interacted with Peter quite a lot, and respect him not only for his recovery, but also for the wisdom he brings to the discussion of abuse topics.

Crossroads Safehouse

The mission of Crossroads Safehouse is to end family violence in Larimer County, Colorado. This site is definitely targeted to Larimer County, but has some information which will be of more general use. As importantly, it offers a glimpse at one community's effort to address the problem of family violence.

Delson-Kokish Associates - Sexual Assault & Child Abuse Information

Delson-Kokish Associates (DKA) is a private counseling center located in Humbold County, California, where the Redwoods meet the Pacific Ocean that specializes in Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Neglect, Rape, and Sexual Deviance. They look to me like they know what they're doing, and their site is worth looking over for a perhaps different approach to these topics than you've seen before.

Domestic Violence Section

Metro Nashville Police Department An excellent, updated, resource full of practical quality material for discerning and dealing with abuse, including a very practical guide on how to make a separation safety plan . Quite possibly the finest collection of information on abuse I've seen anywhere on the net.

Community United Against Violence

This site includes information on same sex domestic abuse, although its rather dated.

Men Stopping Violence

This site includes information about MSV literature and training, and includes back-issues of their newsletter.

S.A.F.E.: Stop Abuse For Everyone

Stop Abuse For Everyone (SAFE) is a human rights organization that provides services, publications, and training to serve those who typically fall between the cracks of domestic violence services: straight men, gays and lesbians, teens, and the elderly.

WRAP: Women's Rural Advocacy Program

WRAP is a collective of six offices serving six counties in southwestern Minnesota. They currently advocate for domestic abuse victims in Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Redwood, and Yellow Medicine counties.

Megan's Abuse and Recovery Site

This is one of the older abuse sites on the net, and was reworked in early 2002. It is good to see the healing Megan has undergone over the years. It includes her own story and other basic information on abuse.

Delson-Kokish Associates -Sexual Assault & Child Abuse Information

Delson-Kokish Associates (DKA) is a private counseling center located in Humbold County, California, where the Redwoods meet the Pacific Ocean that specializes in Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Neglect, Rape, and Sexual Deviance. They look to me like they know what they're doing, and their site is worth looking over for a perhaps different approach to these topics than you've seen before.

Ritual Abuse and Healing Home Page

This home page is designed primarily to give support, information, and encouragement to survivors. A second goal is to make information available to all who are interested in the field. Ritual Abuse is a very controversial area, and this is the best site I've seen on the topic.

Self Injury: You are NOT the only one

One of the most disturbing coping skills some survivors abuse manifest is self-injury. This site does an excellent job of handling this very sensitive topic boldly and without shame.

Transformations

Live Support for abuse survivors, PTSD, and Recovery groups including medical, mental health and 12 Step topics, information and more!

Lowcountry Survivors

A site with a number of recovery and healing oriented documents and links to other sites.

The Incest/Abuse Support Section of About.com.

A site with information and links on a wide variety of issues relating to support and healing for abuse survivors, particularly those of child sexual assault and incest.

Healing Journey

Chat rooms and forums for adult survivors of trauma and abuse.

Personal Stories from the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse

Stories discussing violence of many kinds from different perspectives.

Red Letters

The goal of this site is to provide a forum and avenue for abuse survivors to anonymously post letters to their abuser.

Psychological Abuse Survivors Resources

A very useful and impressive list of resources for survivors. Part of the Grant Me The Serenity... site for self-help, addiction and recovery resources.

My document on abuser resources on this site.

This is a document I created to discuss abuser recovery and link to abuser recovery resources. There is an incomplete overlap between this section of this document and that document. I will try to reconcile it as soon as I figure out a way to do so that makes sense.

Peter B's Book Breaking the Cycle

Peter is a recovering child molester who frequents alt.abuse.offender.recovery. I've interacted with Peter quite a lot, and respect him not only for his recovery, but also for the wisdom he brings to the discussion of abuse topics.

Delson-Kokish Associates -Sexual Assault & Child Abuse Information

Delson-Kokish Associates (DKA) is a private counseling center located in Humbold County, California, where the Redwoods meet the Pacific Ocean that specializes in Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Neglect, Rape, and Sexual Deviance. They look to me like they know what they're doing, and their site is worth looking over for a perhaps different approach to these topics than you've seen before.

Nonviolent Alternatives Counseling Services

A very nice site. It includes some useful techniques in handling anger situations non-abusively, and "Thinking Habits that work well" (and they do). Well worth looking into if you are in the Indiana area.

Parents and Loved Ones of Sexual Abuse and Rape Victims

This page is dedicated to the non-offending parent and to all those who have suffered the hurt of someone they love being sexually abused or raped.

Support for Support People

Supporting someone going through difficulties is itself difficult. This site is designed for helping those supporting people with anxiety disorders, which are not uncommon among abuse survivors.

Partners of Survivors

Information for secondary abuse victims from ClinicalSocialWork.com

Psych Central

Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page, your personalized one-stop index for psychology, support, and mental health issues, resources, and people on the Internet. Dr. Grohol also maintains the Mental Health Net site, has a company that provides computer services for people in the helping industries, and has his own personal domain as well (he's very versatile).

Nonviolent Alternatives Counseling Services

A very nice site. It includes some useful techniques in handling anger situations non-abusively, and "Thinking Habits that work well" (and they do). Well worth looking into if you are in the Indiana area.

Marriage Builders

This site is devoted to building strong marriages, which is a worthy goal. The basic principles look okay to me. If I get closer to getting into another marriage, I'll probably give it a more scrutinizing look and a more detailed review.

Wings: The Magazine of Enlightenment

Featuring Modalities for Metaphysical, Psychic, Spiritual and Holistic Health Care for Personal Healing and Growth. Wings offers food for thought, for re-evaluation, for confirmation, for enjoyment, for growth and for understanding. Wings encourages cooperation between practitioners, businesses and individuals, believing that combined efforts for the highest good of all makes a difference.

Angries out

This site is about a system of addressing anger constructively. It's worth looking at, at least.

Native Shop

Native Shop is a project of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center. Participants there are marketing products as an economic development project to raise funds for the resource center's programs.

Grant Me The Serenity...

This site is intended to help those in or seeking recovery from various addictions, obsessions & compulsions such as drugs, alcohol, sex & food, as well as family, friends, anxiety sufferers & abuse survivors, to find information, support & resources.