GREAT RESOURCES for Domestic Violence, Stalking and Sexual Assault Victims: Privacy-Security-Behavioral Analysis-Survival-Long Term Evasion
Websites, Resources, Manuals, Youtube Channels, Communication Tools, Apps and more will be listed here too
-As time goes on, I add more resources I find for a variety of abuse and intimate partner violence victims as well.
-Please leave in the comments any other ideas and resources you know of.
-It will likely save someone’s life.
Emotional and Stalking, Threat Assement and Understanding
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
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-Phone Numbers-
-Seeking Help Online: Considerations for Survivors
- National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1–800–799–7233, or by online chat.
- National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1–800–656–4673, or by online chat
- The Deaf Hotline at 855–812–1001 or by email, hotline@adwas.org
- Battered Women and their Children 1–800–603-HELP
- More Numbers here: Safety Net Project (techsafety.org)
Power of Google
Use google to find more for your country, state, county, city.
Emerging Artificial Intelligence Technologies
💡 Artificial Intelligence Apps and Tools, may be a great resource for finding help for victims too and giving them creative ideas on how to escape and evade their abusers.
How Victims can use Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Claude)to Escape, Evade and Survive
If you’re escaping, and need ideas on “how to: for example, order online more privately ”,AI Apps can help you design a saftey plan, escape your abuser, determine potential risks and vulnerabilities in your plan and more.
🛑 CAUTION:
Use google and call other experts to double check it’s answers-information.
-The better read you are on the topic, the better you can catch a mistake.⚠️ Sometimes ai “hallucinates” and is incorrect ⚠️
More Free Resources:
In the US, you can use 211.
-211, also has a 10 digit number for each area it serves,
which is helpful when you have to move from one area to another, and want to call that area in advance
⚠️Sometimes the numbers 211 gives you is outdated/incorrect
Outside of the US
-International Directory (helpguide.org)
The above website has a limited list of countries (that you can choose from), and then the theme for the help that you need.
Again, use google for your particular country.
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I. VALUABLE VICTIM:
⬇Resources, Number to Call, Organizations, Tools⬇
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A) ✅Victim Connect is an extensive data base of:
- Shelters, NGO’s that provide free legal resources, state and county social service agencies, Safe Address Programs, Food Banks and much more.
- You can call, text or chat with them online:
“VictimConnect can be reached via phone and text at 855–4-VICTIM or via online chat Monday — Friday from 9:00am –5:00pm ET.”
→It’s like an “all in one” (It also offers basic tips and advice for dealing with emergency services too)
B) → How to Guides and Manuals ←
This website talks alot about tech safety, privacy tools:
-https://allaboutcookies.org/
A Toolkit for Survivors
www.techsafety.org
They have guides (similar to what is in this blog) that go over DIVERSE security risks and challenges:
from smart homes and cameras, to voting safely, and MUCH MORE
for example: Below I list SOME of the Manuals
(they have many more under each of the following categories on their website, so please click on their website!):
Basic Technology Safety:
-Tech Talk: Securing Devices
-Guide to Securing Accounts & Devices
Stalkerware & Location Tracking
-Computer Stalkerware & Safety for Survivors
Phones
-Survivors’ Guide to Phones
-Options for Free Phones
-iPhone Privacy & Security Guid
-Choosing and Using Apps: Considerations for Survivors
Online Privacy & Safety
-Financial Abuse & Technology * New
-Browser Privacy Settings * Updated
-Uber Safety and Privacy Considerations
-Facebook Privacy & Safety: A Guide for Survivors of Abuse
Internet of Things (IoT) & Connected Devices
-Home Automation
-Smart Home Devices: Survivor Privacy and Safety
-Survivor’s Guide to Cameras
-Smart Toys
-Health Devices
-Survivor Safety and Connected Cars
-Mobility Data Specification — Scooters, Rideshares, and Taxis
Documenting Abuse:
(Guides, Apps, Process and Implications)
Reasoning and Logic, Some ideas
More legal and process Aspects, Tools, Guides
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APPS to use
Location Independent Ways of Living
(you may be in a hotel, friends house, shelter, your van, or having to move from city to city. These will help.)
-Virtual Mailing Addresses
They also offer virtual addresses and mailboxes. Great if you open up an anonmous llc too.
-Online Fax Services
(some allow you to send faxes to doctors, lawyers, law enforcement over secure lines)
Alternate Ways of Living
Depending on your situation, the amount of time you haver to prepare and so forth, this may be a temporary safety and security solution
-Van life youtube channels:
(This will help you be able to move almost wherever, whenever. Be mindful of winter though)
Digital nomad youtube channels are good too
They travel and learn to use services across the globe that adapt to them constantly needing to move.
Safer Communication
(and Misinformation, if needed)
Surfsharks One+ plan offers a virtual number and alternate identity you can use online
-International Phone Numbers
www.telnyx.com
-Internet Faxing (fax important documents to you lawyer, doctor, police)
www.ifaxapp.com
Identify What Information is out there about you online
-www.pentester.com
(a paid service that is very comprehensive that allows you to see everything the internet has about you online)
-A Free Way to find and remove information about you on google
Stalking Victim’s Toolkit from Heaven
Most basic: (find related article)
-Google, Yahoo, Bing
-Search tools on Social Media Channels
Case studies/Stories About Dating Risks
-Youtube channel: Mr.Nightmare
(His scenarios, even if some are made up by those that summit the stories, offer valuable lessons. Most of them sound real to me)
Books
Book-The Safety Trap,
Chapter-Case Study: The Bad Breakup Author-Spencer Coursen, Threat Management Expert
Spencer Coursen, Threat Management Expert
More Extreme
-he travels the world by using rains carrying shipping containers, using abandoned building for places to sleep and more. I don’t recommend doing anything illegal. However, he shows how to get by in a semi-worst case scenario manner.
(These are more for those planning on going to the woods. However, the concepts, principles and tips are still practical and helpful. It doesn’t hurt to take a couple extra precautions too)
-“Build the perfect bug out bag. You’re 72 hour disaster survival kit”
by Creek Stewart.
-“The disaster ready home: a step by step emergency preparedness manual for sheltering in place”
by Creek Stewart.
How to get Back Into the Workforce-Safely
-Job Application Hacks for Stalking Victims: Safely Navigate Your References and Emergency Contacts
DV How To Manuals
Financial Insights, Social Media, OPSEC, Decoy Accounts and much More
“9 Secrets to Be Invisible Online”
YouTube Channel: All things Secured
https://youtu.be/bEgn18Gj3co?si=cpIN4mKdyxn6oS11
Free Security Checklist
https://www.allthingssecured.com/security-checklist-pdf/
Survival and Scenario Based Books-YouTube Channels
-Varying levels, Concepts most likely the key part here.
- Garand Thumb (The Principles he Outlines here, Are the Same as the ones you will need to, when escaping over the short and long term)
“Build the Perfect Bug-Out Bag/
Build the Perfect Bug Out Veichle”
-by Creek Stewart
“The Preppers Canning Guide”
-by Daisy Luther
- Grey Man Youtube Channels
(How to blend in-which comes in handy if you need to hide in an area your abuser/abuser’s friend’s, live near)
Great Principles and Concepts to Follow for the First Phase of your Escape
Situational Awareness and Mindfulness
Expert Interrogators and Behavioral Analysts
Psychological and People Reading Skills and Training:
Learn how to spot deceptive and abusive behavior
Creative Home-Hotel Security Solutions
PepperBall.com
Social Ettiquet and Blending Back in Again
Art of Manliness
-Brett and Kate McKay
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-The Tactical Victim-
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