RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
Free, confidential, 24/7 support for survivors. RAINN can provide crisis support, answer questions, and help connect you with local medical, counseling, legal, and advocacy services.
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You do not have to report to be believed.
You do not have to identify anyone to seek support.
You do not have to prove what happened to belong here.
Find confidential support, medical care, legal information, survivor rights, therapy resources, and local services. You decide what happens next.
Visibility. Solidarity. Accountability. Justice.
I Need Help Now
You do not have to know exactly what kind of help you need before reaching out. These organizations can help you understand your options and connect you with support.
VictimConnect Resource Center
A confidential resource center that helps crime victims understand their options and find local services, advocacy, legal resources, and other support.
NSVRC Find Help
Find local rape crisis centers and state sexual assault coalitions throughout the United States. Local programs may provide advocacy, medical accompaniment, counseling referrals, and help navigating reporting or legal systems.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Confidential support, safety planning, information, and local resources for people experiencing abuse within a relationship, including coercion, sexual violence, stalking, and controlling behavior.
Medical & Forensic Care
You are allowed to ask questions, understand your options, and make decisions about your own body. Medical care and a forensic examination do not erase your right to choose what happens next.
RAINN — If You’ve Been Assaulted
Clear information about medical care, forensic exams, reporting options, evidence preservation, and what survivors may expect after an assault.
SAFEta National Protocol
National guidance for sexual assault forensic examinations. SAFEta emphasizes informed consent, trauma-informed care, patient autonomy, trained examiners, and a survivor’s right to understand or decline portions of an examination.
Wisconsin Sexual Assault Kit Tracking
Wisconsin’s Track-Kit system allows survivors to follow the location and status of sexual assault evidence kits through the testing process.
Wisconsin SAFE Fund
Wisconsin’s Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Fund can cover eligible forensic examination costs, including situations where a survivor does not want to report to police or use private insurance.
Know Your Rights
Laws and survivor protections vary by state. These resources can help you understand your rights before deciding what you want to do.
RAINN State Law Database
State-by-state information about consent laws, sexual assault definitions, confidentiality, criminal statutes of limitations, mandatory reporting, DNA evidence laws, and other survivor-related legal issues.
RAINN — Understanding Statutes of Limitations
Explains how criminal statutes of limitations work, how they differ by state and circumstance, and why reporting a crime is not always the same thing as starting a prosecution.
WomensLaw.org
Plain-language legal information for women dealing with abuse, stalking, restraining orders, custody, divorce, housing, immigration, court procedures, and related legal concerns.
Victim Rights Law Center
Survivor-centered civil legal information addressing privacy, safety, housing, education, employment, and other legal consequences of sexual violence.
Legal & Financial Help
Navigating the practical, legal, and financial impacts of crime and abuse.
Office for Victims of Crime — Help for Victims
A federal resource for finding victim services, state assistance programs, compensation programs, and organizations that help survivors navigate practical needs.
Crime Victim Compensation
Information about state programs that may reimburse eligible survivors for expenses such as medical care, counseling, lost wages, and other costs related to violent crime.
Wisconsin Crime Victim Compensation
Wisconsin’s program may reimburse eligible expenses including medical care, counseling, lost wages, and certain other costs caused by violent crime.
Wisconsin Victim & Witness Rights
Information about crime victim rights in Wisconsin, navigating the criminal justice process, referrals, and options when a survivor believes her statutory victim rights were violated.
Privacy, Stalking & Online Abuse
Being threatened, stalked, doxxed, harassed, exposed, or targeted online can be part of abuse. These organizations provide information and tools for protecting privacy and safety.
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Safety Center
Support and practical guidance for nonconsensual intimate images, sextortion, sexually explicit deepfakes, image-based abuse, and related online violations.
SPARC — Stalking Prevention, Awareness & Resource Center
Resources about stalking, documentation, technology-facilitated abuse, risk assessment, and safety planning.
Wisconsin Safe at Home
Wisconsin’s address confidentiality program provides eligible survivors with a legal substitute address to help protect their actual residential address.
Therapy & Healing
There is no correct timeline for healing. You are allowed to look for support now, years from now, or not at all. These directories can help you explore professional support when you want it.
FindTreatment.gov
A confidential national locator for mental health treatment providers and facilities.
Psychology Today Therapist Directory
A searchable therapist directory with filters for location, insurance, trauma, PTSD, sexual abuse, and other specialties.
Always ask a provider directly about their experience with trauma-informed and survivor-centered care.
Start by Believing
A national campaign focused on improving how survivors are treated when they disclose abuse and teaching friends, family members, advocates, healthcare providers, and institutions how to respond supportively.
College & Workplace
Understand your rights, protections, and options within educational institutions and workplace environments.
Clery Center
Information about the rights and protections available to college students affected by sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking, including institutional responsibilities and accommodations.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — Sexual Harassment
Federal information about workplace sexual harassment, retaliation, employee protections, employer responsibilities, and filing deadlines.
Wisconsin & Madison
Local and state resources. The I AM JANE DOE Community currently has deep roots in Wisconsin.
Dane County / Madison, Wisconsin
RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center
Local survivor services including helpline support, advocacy, campus services, forensic nurse exam support, medical accompaniment, and help navigating options after sexual violence.
End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin
Statewide directory of domestic violence programs and resources for safety planning, relationship abuse, coercive control, shelter, advocacy, and local support.
211 Wisconsin
Search for local Wisconsin services by ZIP code, including counseling, shelters, legal assistance, medical support, sexual assault services, housing, financial help, and other community resources.
Wisconsin Department of Justice Survivor Resources
State information about sexual assault response, evidence kits, victim rights, crime victim compensation, forensic exam funding, and survivor protections.
STAY CONNECTED WITH THE I AM JANE DOE COMMUNITY
Get updates about upcoming events, new resources, community news, advocacy efforts, and ways to get involved.
THIS IS BIGGER THAN A PROFILE PICTURE.
The #IAMJANEDOE Community exists to make the scale of sexual assault impossible to ignore, create a safer space for women to support one another, and push for real accountability and change.
This space is for women who have experienced sexual assault, abuse, coercion, harassment, or sexual violence in any form.
You do not have to share your story to belong here.
You do not have to identify your abuser.
You do not have to prove anything.
No woman owes this community her trauma.
You can wear the shirt.
Use the profile picture.
Attend an event.
Stand beside another woman.
Donate.
Share resources.
Say nothing about what happened to you.
You still belong.
Visibility. Solidarity. Accountability. Justice.
The I AM JANE DOE Community does not provide medical care, legal advice, emergency services, crisis counseling, or law enforcement services. This directory is provided to help survivors locate organizations that may be able to assist them. Services, eligibility requirements, contact methods, and laws can change. Please confirm current information directly with the organization.
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