If you or someone you know may be experiencing sexual violence or assault, please call the National Sexual Assault Hotline: CALL 800.656.HOPE (4673) or call 911, reporting can save a life.
Resources
If you are in crisis please call 9-1-1 or the National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800.656.HOPE (4673)
RAINN
RAINN
RAINN is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization.
Get Help 24/7
Saprea
Saprea
Saprea exists to liberate individuals and society from child sexual abuse and its lasting impacts.
Prevent Child Abuse Utah
Utah Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
Working together, we can protect Utah’s most valuable resource – its children. Through initiatives including education programs on abuse recognition and reporting for both children and adults, evidence-based home visiting support for parents, and more, Prevent Child Abuse Utah is dedicated to this vital cause.
Paperdolls.Today (April Daniels's Substack Site)
Paperdolls.Today (April Daniels’s Substack Site)
For Survivors
The goal is to provide a safe area for survivors of sexual abuse. We believe that requiring the subscription fee will help keep this area safe. If you cannot afford the fee, you could be eligible to receive access at a significant discount or even Pro Bono.
Rape Recovery Center
Rape Recovery Center
UTAH’S 24-HOUR SEXUAL VIOLENCE HELPLINE: (801) 736-4356
LINEA DE APOYO DE VIOLENCIA SEXUAL LAS 24-HORAS DE UTAH:(801) 924-0860
Utah Association for Domestic Violence Treatment
Utah Association for Domestic Violence Treatment
The Utah Association of Domestic Violence Treatment was formed in 2013 by, and for, therapists who specialize in working with offenders and/or victims of domestic violence.
UTAH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALITION
UTAH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALITION
UDVC Mission
To end domestic violence in Utah through advocacy, education, collaboration, and leadership.
UDVC Vision
We envision a world where all individuals and families live free from violence, feel safe, empowered, and hopeful.
Elizabeth Smart Foundation
Elizabeth Smart Foundation
Bringing hope and ending the victimization and exploitation of sexual assault through education, healing, and advocacy.
In 2022, the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and the Malouf Foundation joined forces to make an even deeper impact.
Darkness to Light
Darkness to Light is a non-profit committed to empowering adults to prevent child sexual abuse.
CALL 800.656.HOPE OR TEXT HOME TO 741741
You are not alone — if you encounter child sexual abuse, resources and support are available. Call to have questions answered or chat with a trained crisis counselor, 24/7 at no charge. All conversations are confidential.
Helping Survivors: Childhood Sexual Abuse
Understand the signs, prevention strategies, and how to seek help if you or a loved one was a victim of child sexual abuse.
Key Takeaways
- While child sexual abuse can happen to anyone and be perpetrated by anyone, it often occurs with someone the child knows and can take many forms
- Child sexual abuse often occurs after building trust or grooming a child and the abuse can span over years, often starting subtly
- Survivors of childhood sexual abuse have rights and options, and many states are lifting or expanding the statute of limitations
The Policy Project
Removing barriers to opportunity.
The Policy Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that promotes solution-based policies to remove barriers to opportunity.
We work toward healthy, equitable policy for the future of our children, our community and our world. Because we know that when every individual has access to opportunity, communities flourish.
POLICY WORK IS LEGACY WORK.
If we change a law, we change the future.
Sources of Help
Provided Courtesy of Carolyn Hax and Liz BrockBank in honor of Steve OlpinIf you have a specific difficulty, such as grief, addiction, a major illness in the family, debt, etc., there may be a topic-specific
support group. SAMHSA’s National Helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357) (also known as the Treatment Referral Routing Service),
or TTY: 1-800-487-4889 is a confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year information service in English and Spanish for
individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders. This service provides referrals to local treatment
- If you are in a crisis
- Abuse
- Mental illness
- Substance abuse
- Child abuse
- Debt and gambling
- Death of a child
- Parenting
- Infertility
- Suicide support
- Legal help
- Death of a pet
- Unsheltered
- Call 9-1-1
- Call or text 988
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
MOSAIC Threat Assessment Systems
One Love Foundation
National Alliance on Mental Illness: The NAMI HelpLine, available Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Eastern time: 1-
800-950-NAMI (6264) or info@nami.org.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Alcoholics Anonymous
Al-Anon Family Groups
Adult Children of Alcoholics/ Dysfunctional Families
SMART Recovery
Women for Sobriety
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD)
For young people, the Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386
For families, PFLAG
For all, It Gets Better Project
USA.gov. Programs are offered at the state level as well, so check your state’s website or call the office of your state attorney
general.
The crime of abusing children and sexual assault has been around for centuries. The pursuit to cure society of this plague has been active just as long. Karen Fisher told April that there wasn’t a book, or a work, for survivors–showing the healing process from beginning to end–with a therapist’s perspective on what was happening with the survivor during the journey. In that regard, we were the first. However, we had extensive research and verified theraputic techniques to help us get to the point of publishing Paperdolls.
Even Freud, misquidedly wrote of “hysterical” females and children. Freud did get a lot of things right, but sadly Sigmund didn’t go much deeper in combating the reason for the hysterics. Below are some of the resources we studied before the first release of Paperdolls. Many are still valid. Many can provide insights in ways we can erradicate the toxic plague of sexual assault from the earth.
Resources for Further Reading
The following was presented in both the 1992 and 1993 editions of Paperdolls: Healing from Sexual Abuse in Mormon Neighborhoods.
- Armstrong, Louise. Kiss Daddy Goodnight: Ten Years Later. New York: Pocket Books, 1987.
- Bear, Evan, with Peter Dimock. Adults Molested as Children: A Survivor’s Manual for Women and Men. Orwell, VT: Safer Society Press, 1988.
- Beattie, Melody. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself. New York:HarperCollins, 1987.
- Black, Claudia. It’s Never Too Late to Have a Happy Childhood: Inspirations for Adult Children. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.
- Bradshaw, John. Bradshaw On: The Family: A Revolutionary Way of Self-Discovery. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1988.
- Bradshaw, John. Healing The Shame That Binds You: Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1988.
- Bronson, Catherine. Growing through the Pain: The Incest Survivor’s Companion. New York: Prentice-Hall/Parkside, 1989.
- Butler, Sandra. Conspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest. New York, Bantam, 1978, 1985 (updated).
- Farmer, Steven. Adult Children of Abusive Parents: A Healing Program for Those Who Have Been Physically, Sexually, or Emotionally Abused. New York: Ballantine Books, 1990.
- Finkelhor, David. Sexually Victimized Children. New York: Free Press, 1981.
- Forward, Susan, and Craig Buck. Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
- Fredrickson, Renee. Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse. New York: Fireside-Parkside/Recovery Book, 1992.
- Gil, Eliana. Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and about Adults Abused as Children. Walnut Creek, CA: Launch Press, 1983.
- Hechler, David. The Battle and the Backlash: The Child Sexual Abuse War. New York: Free Press, 1989.
- Herman, Judith. Father-Daughter Incest. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
- Klausner, Mary Ann, and Bobbie Hasselbring. Aching for Love: The Sexual Drama of the Adult Child—Healing Strategies for Women. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1990.
- Kunjufu, Jawanza. Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Black Children. Chicago: African American Images, 1984.
- Lerner, Harriett Goldhor. The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman’s Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
- Miller, Alice. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
- Miller, Alice. Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society’s Betrayal of the Child. New York: New American Library, 1986.
- Missildine, W. Hugh. Your Inner Child of the Past. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
- Peck, M. Scott. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
- Poston, Carol, and Karen Lison, Reclaiming Our Lives: Hope for Adult Survivors of Incest. New York: Bantam, 1990.
- Russell, Diana. The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women. New York: Basic Books, 1986.
- Sanford, Linda. Strong at the Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse. New York: Random House, 1990.
- Sanford, Linda T., and Mary Ellen Donovan. Women & Self Esteem: Understanding and Improving the Way We Think and Feel about Ourselves. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985.
- Steinem, Gloria. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self Esteem. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1992.
- Stollenberg, John. Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice. New York: New American Library, 1990.
- W, Nancy. On the Path: Affirmations for Adults Recovering from Childhood Sexual Abuse. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991.
- Whitfield, Charles. Healing the Child Within. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1987.
- Wisechild, Louise M., editor. She Who Was Lost Is Remembered: Healing from Incest Through Creativity. Seattle, WA: The Seal Press, 1991.
- Woititz, Janet. Adult Children of Alcoholics. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 1990.
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