Sharing your story can empower you, inspire others, and create a more informed and supportive community.
Here at Cyber Protector’s, we believe victims and survivors of gender-based violence must have opportunities to vent about their trauma. Expressing feelings and telling experiences is an important part of the healing process, allowing individuals to process their emotions, gain clarity, and find relief. Keeping these experiences bottled up can lead to increased stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. By sharing their story, survivors can begin to reclaim their narratives, empowering themselves and finding solidarity with others who have faced similar challenges.
Resources provided by us
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Our Self-Report Action Center is designed to provide this critical outlet for survivors. We offer a platform where individuals can share their experiences in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. Self-reporting allows survivors to feel heard and validated all while providing data that is critical to moving our movement forward.
The Self-Report Action Center is intentionally crafted to be a safe space. We prioritize the confidentiality and security of all users, ensuring that their stories and personal information are protected. Our platform employs robust security measures to maintain privacy and prevent unauthorized access. Additionally, the community within the center is moderated to ensure that interactions remain respectful and supportive. By fostering a safe and inclusive environment, we help survivors feel comfortable and confident in sharing their experiences, knowing they are in a place where they will be understood and supported.
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Cyber Protector’s, also provides resources to survivors and victims by showing how to report and block harassers online in most digital platforms. You can click here to be redirected to our How to: Block and Report page.
External Resources
Please note that if you click on any link within this section you will be leaving our site. Computer use can be monitored and this page will still appear in your web history.
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Safety Net is a project of The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), founded more than 30 years ago to be a national voice against violence. This organization is dedicated to creating a social, political, and economic environment in which domestic violence no longer exists. They work to make ending domestic violence a national priority, change the way communities respond to domestic violence, and strengthen efforts against intimate partner violence at every level of government.
The Safety Net project, focuses on the intersection of technology and abuse and works to address how it impacts the safety, privacy, accessibility, and civil rights of victims.
Some resources on their page are:
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Esperanza United is a Non-profit organization founded in Saint Paul, Minnesota as a emergency shelter now the largest, most-respected Latin@ organization in the country focused on ending gender-based violence.
Resources provided by them:
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Chayn is a global nonprofit, it is run by survivors and allies from around the world, creating resources to support the healing of survivors of gender-based violence. This organization creates open, online resources and services for survivors of abuse that are trauma-informed, intersectional, multilingual and feminist.
At the heart of their project is the experience of marginalized people working across all forms of gender-based violence, especially domestic and sexual violence, and technology-facilitated abuse.
Resources on their page:
Written by survivors and experts from different cultures and experiences, these resources will help you think through your situation and find resolution.
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CCRI Safety Center is part of Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, which is a non profit organization started in 2012 by Dr. Jacobs, being a survivor herself she launched End Revenge Porn, an online campaign that collected signatures in favor of criminalizing nonconsensual distribution of intimate images (NDII).
Today, CCRI is one of the nation’s leading organization serving thousands of victims around the world and advocating for technological, social, and legal innovation to fight online abuse.
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If you are a victim or survivor of image-based sexual abuse, the resources below are designed to meet a range of needs.