Resources

For Survivors

• Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services
• TST Trauma Recovery Program
  The Safety Team is delighted to offer an innovative trauma treatment developed by psychologist and founding member of The Safety Team, Dr. Christine DiBlasio. This program, Therapeutic Empowerment Self-Defense (TESD™), is designed specifically for trauma survivors and uses an integrated mind-body approach towards trauma recovery and risk reduction. TESD is supported in part by a grant from Vermont Center for Victim Services.

Information About Sexual Violence For Men

• Violence against women—it’s a men’s issue: Jackson Katz at TEDxFiDiWomen
  Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender, race, and violence. He has long been a major figure and thought leader in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence.
• Coaching Boys Into Men
  Coaching Boys into Men is a Coaches Leadership Program that partners with athletic coaches to help young male athletes practice respect towards themselves and others. Coaching Boys into Men equips coaches to talk with their athletes about respect for women and girls and that violence doesn’t equal strength. Through CBIM, athletes learn skills to avoid violence and abuse in their relationships.
• Men Can Stop Rape
  Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR) is an international organization that mobilizes men to use their strength for creating cultures free from violence, especially men’s violence against women. Since its inception in 1997, MCSR has led the call to redefine masculinity and male strength as part of preventing men’s violence against women.
• A Call to Men
  A Call to Men is a leading national men’s organization addressing domestic and sexual violence prevention and the promotion of healthy manhood. A Call to Men is committed to maintaining strong partnerships with women’s organizations already doing this important work. They help to organize communities in order to raise awareness and get men involved in this effort.
• VAWNet Special Collection: Men and Boys Preventing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence
  This Special Collection provides resources for anti-violence programs to increase their capacity to engage men and boys in their work to end violence against women. The collection explores the social construction of masculinity and the impact that pro-feminist men can have on advancing the anti-violence movement.
• NextGenMen
  A small but mighty nonprofit working towards a future where boys and men
  feel less pain and cause less harm.

Parenting

• Tea and Consent
  Educational tool that uses the metaphor of offering someone a cup of tea to explain the concept of sexual consent.
• Consent for Kids
  Educational tool designed to teach children the concept of consent in a clear, age-appropriate, and non-sexual manner. It employs simple language and relatable scenarios to help kids understand bodily autonomy and the importance of respecting others’ boundaries.
• Caring For Kids: What Parents Need to Know About Sexual Abuse
  Provides parents and caregivers with information to help them support children who have been victims of sexual abuse. This fact sheet series also includes advice on how to cope with the shock of intrafamilial abuse and with the emotional impact of legal involvement in sexual abuse cases.
• Vermont Fatherhood
  Vermont Fatherhood’s mission is to value the role of fathers in their children’s lives, help develop fathers parenting and coparenting skills and build community around them. The Vision of Vermont Fatherhood is that every dad feels supported and has the skills they need as a parent and to increase the quantity and quality of their time with their children.
• Dad Guild
  The Dad Guild believes “that when dads and masculine-identifying caregivers are engaged in their caregiving roles, children experience positive outcomes, dads experience positive mental health benefits, large steps towards gender equality are taken and cycles of generational trauma are disrupted.”