SAFETY & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE

Best For:

Domestic violence, dating abuse, relationship abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, safety planning, and helping someone in an unsafe relationship.

What It Offers:

Free, confidential, 24/7 support from live advocates by phone, chat, and text. Users can call 800-799-SAFE, chat online, or text START to 88788.

Cost:

FREE

Good to Know:

The site warns that internet use can be monitored and may be impossible to erase completely. It recommends calling if device monitoring is a concern.

NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Best For:

Understanding domestic violence systems, finding state coalitions, technology safety, housing, economic justice, policy, legal resources, and survivor-support infrastructure.

What It Offers:

State and U.S. territorial coalition directory, domestic violence education, policy resources, economic justice work, housing resources, technology safety, resource library, toolkits, and links to WomensLaw and TechSafety.

Cost:

Free to browse.

love is respect

Best For:

Young people, dating abuse, relationship questions, boundaries, online safety, school safety, and supporting a friend or partner.

What It Offers:

24/7 confidential support for teens, young adults, and loved ones by phone, text, and live chat. It also has safety planning, relationship education, warning signs, consent, boundaries, and support guides.

Call 1-866-331-9474, chat online, or text LOVEIS to 22522.

Cost:

FREE. Message/data rates may apply for text.

  • RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline

    Best For: Sexual assault, sexual abuse, intimate image abuse, survivor support, or supporting someone who has been harmed.

    What It Offers: 24/7 support from trained staff by phone, online chat, text, and WhatsApp. Users can call 800-656-HOPE, text HOPE to 64673, or chat online.

    Cost: Free.

  • SWOP Behind Bars

    Best For: Sex workers, trafficking survivors, incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, and people seeking reentry support.

    What It Offers: A sex worker and survivor peer-staffed Community Support Line, resource connection, reentry support, direct services, advocacy, education, and community-building for people impacted by sex work, trafficking, incarceration, and stigma.

    Call the Community Support Line at 1-877-776-2004.

    Cost: Free to contact. Some connected resources may vary depending on the provider or location.

  • HIPS

    Best For: People impacted by sex work, drug use, housing instability, survival work, overdose risk, HIV/HCV risk, and harm-reduction needs.

    What It Offers: A 24-hour hotline for emotional support, supply deliveries, and connection to health-supportive services.
    HIPS also lists harm-reduction supplies, condoms and safer sex supplies, syringe exchange, drug testing strips, etc.
    Call the 24-hour hotline at 1-800-676-4477. For supply delivery requests, call the hotline or email the listed HIPS contact.

    Cost: Some medical or partner services may vary.

  • WomensLaw.org

    Best For: Legal information about abuse, restraining orders, custody, divorce, housing protections, immigration, stalking, cyberstalking, financial abuse, reproductive coercion, and court preparation.

    What It Offers: Plain-language legal information by state, an email hotline, abuse education, safety planning, court preparation guides, and “Places that Help” directories for advocates, shelters, lawyers, courthouse locations, and national organizations.

    Cost: Free to browse.
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Long Live the Black Sheep is not a therapy, crisis, medical, legal, or financial service. The Resource Vault exists to help route people toward professional, vetted support resources. If this is urgent or unsafe, contact emergency services or a crisis support line right away.