Tool 01
Start Here
Sort what is urgent when several needs are competing for your attention.
Get Support
You do not need to know which resource you need.
Choose the statement closest to what is happening today. Each pathway narrows the options and gives you a practical next step.
Nothing here requires you to report.
You can use these pathways to think, document, prepare, or find support without making every decision today.
What feels most urgent?
Choose the closest answer. You do not need to explain the entire situation before taking one useful step.
PATH 01
I may be in immediate danger.
Find urgent safety contacts and prepare the clearest facts to share.
PATH 02
I do not feel safe.
Think through children, pets, disability needs, housing, money, transportation, and safer next steps.
PATH 03
I want to preserve what happened.
Save messages, photographs, timelines, agency responses, and other parts of the record.
PATH 04
I am thinking about reporting.
Prepare before contacting police, healthcare, schools, employers, courts, or another institution.
PATH 05
I asked for help and the response caused more harm.
Document what happened, request corrections, compare escalation options, and protect your energy.
PATH 06
I am worried about my phone, accounts, or location.
Preserve signs of access before making changes that could destroy evidence or increase risk.
I still do not know where to begin.
Open Start Here. It will help you sort safety, documentation, reporting, medical care, and harmful system responses without requiring you to choose the perfect category.
Six guided tools.
These pages help you make a decision or complete a task. Each tool begins with a question and ends with a specific next action.
Tool 02
Build Your Record
Preserve messages, photographs, timelines, digital access, and institutional responses.
Tool 03
I Do Not Feel Safe
Build a practical safety plan around the life you actually have.
Tool 04
I Am Thinking About Reporting
Prepare facts, evidence, questions, accommodations, and follow-up steps before making a report.
Tool 05
They Did Not Help Me
Respond when an institution dismisses, delays, misdocuments, minimizes, or mishandles what happened.
Tool 06
Protect My Devices
Review location access, accounts, stalkerware concerns, shared plans, and digital harassment.
Find support by situation.
These pathways connect you to direct phone, text, chat, and external support options without requiring you to search an organization’s website first.
Urgent safety
Immediate Danger
Emergency contacts, crisis support, direct phone and chat options, and facts to share first.
Abuse and coercive control
Domestic Violence
Safety, housing, coercive control, documentation, legal help, and identity-specific support.
Medical, forensic, and support options
Sexual Assault
Medical care, forensic exams, reporting choices, drug-facilitated assault, and direct crisis support.
Following, monitoring, and unwanted contact
Stalking
Physical stalking, repeated contact, digital monitoring, third-party contact, reporting, and privacy.
Identity-affirming support
LGBTQ+ Support
Shelter access, outing threats, identity-based abuse, trans-specific support, legal help, and chosen family.
Courts, protection, and rights
Legal Aid
Protection orders, custody, immigration, victim rights, affordable legal help, and court preparation.
Shelter and practical barriers
Housing and Shelter
Emergency shelter, children, pets, transportation, money, accessibility, and privacy questions.
School, exchanges, and legal care
Children and Custody
School safety, disclosures, exchanges, legal concerns, medical care, and children’s devices.
Specialist technology support
Digital Safety Resources
Specialist help for stalkerware, compromised accounts, location access, shared plans, and online harassment.
Continue without starting over.
Ask a question, stay connected, or contribute to the public record when the immediate crisis has passed.
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Submit a question about abuse patterns, documentation, reporting, systems, or practical next steps without identifying yourself.
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The Survivor Record
After the immediate crisis has passed, share a harmful reporting or institutional response so recurring system failures can be documented. Anonymous platform with STF.
Clear boundaries are part of survivor care.
These pages are designed to reduce uncertainty without claiming services the foundation cannot currently provide.
STF can offer
- Guided public tools and pathways
- Documentation and preparation support
- Direct resource contact information
- Anonymous questions and public education
- Anonymous system-failure reporting through The Survivor Record
- Investigative and public accountability work
STF cannot guarantee
- Emergency response or 24/7 crisis support
- Legal representation or legal advice
- Therapy, medical treatment, or case management
- Shelter placement or transportation
- Immediate individualized response
- A specific outcome from an outside organization or institution
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