Show Support
Whether you’re a survivor yourself or know someone who is, your compassionate support can profoundly impact someone’s healing journey. Here’s how.
By showing up, speaking out, and stepping in, you can become an essential part of a survivor’s journey toward healing and justice.
Show Up
Showing up for survivors requires compassion and courage. Learn to listen without judgment and provide trauma-informed support.
How To Help Survivors HEAL After Sexual Violence
RAINN’s H.E.A.L. acronym is a simple, powerful guide to help people show up for survivors. Share resources, become trauma-informed, advocate, and listen.
Volunteer
Volunteers play an essential role in supporting survivors of sexual violence. Here’s what to know about volunteering with RAINN or a service provider near you.
Speak Out
Your voice is a force for change. Learn to challenge harmful beliefs, reject victim-blaming, and share your own story with courage and compassion.
How To TALK With Survivors of Sexual Violence
Learn to support someone after they disclose a sexual assault. RAINN’s T.A.L.K. acronym can help you have supportive conversations with survivors.
Share Your Story
Survivors are central to anti-sexual violence efforts. Learn how your story can empower prevention, enhance healing, and expand justice.
Step In
Bystander intervention can stop sexual violence and save lives. Learn safe ways to distract, offer help, get assistance, and provide meaningful support.
Stop Sexual Violence: Step in With CARE
When bystanders intervene, communities can STOP sexual violence. RAINN’s C.A.R.E. acronym can help you intervene effectively and safely.
Bystander Intervention: Protecting Children
Learn to recognize the signs of child sexual abuse, how to talk to a child survivor, and how to report crimes against kids, tweens, and teens.
Compassion + Action Changes Lives
Together, we can act with compassion to prevent sexual violence, support survivors, and pursue justice. Here’s how RAINN has made a difference since 1994:
5 Million
survivors and their loved ones have been supported by RAINN since 1994.
1,200
Every day, RAINN’s staff and volunteers help an average of more than 1,200 people.
460,028
Total number of people served through RAINN’s victim services programs in 2024.
Show Support with RAINN
At RAINN, we believe every survivor deserves help, hope, healing, and happiness—no matter when the sexual violence occurred or where you are on your healing journey.
Support & Services
Share RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline and help someone get free, confidential support services and information—available 24/7 by phone, chat, or text.
Education & Community
Help adults and kids learn to recognize, prevent, and respond to sexual violence, empowering everyone to create safer communities.
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If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you are not alone. RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers free, confidential, 24/7 support in English and en Español.
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