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Resources
RESTORE staff and volunteers collect and share information and resources constantly. We aim to provide access to a comprehensive selection of relevant and timely information and options related to sexual violence, intimate partner violence, prevention, and other related topics. This collection includes items in print, audiovisual, and electronic formats, and is updated regularly.
Grooming and Child Sexual Assault Materials
(CSAM)
This service is one step you can take to help remove online nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit photos and videos taken before you were 18.
https://takeitdown.ncmec.org
Child exploitation and trafficking happens all over, in every community – even your own. And children are especially vulnerable.
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
(SAAM)
Together we act, United we change. Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2025.
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RESTORE’s advertisement in City Magazine for April’s 2025 issue seeking to raise awareness for our services during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
City Magazine Ad 2025
The Mailboxes of Hope initiative runs across all 5 served counties during the months of April and October, for Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, respectively.
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LETTERS OF HOPE
Every April, RESTORE highlights Letters of Hope. Letters of Hope is a virtual place to share letters of support, hope, encouragement, and solidarity with survivors of sexual violence. Submissions are collected anonymously online and RESTORE information is available for anyone looking for more information or help.
Booklists
These book lists are an exploration of the complexities of sexual assault. RESTORE advocates have compiled it from our experience locally along with national recommendations. This list represents various lenses, genres and voices surviving sexual violence. These books can be used for classes, groups, clubs or to learn and grow as an individual.
RESTORE advocates are available to process any questions, challenges or emotions that may come up in reading of these books.
If you have read a book that is not on the list, but think that it should be, please call the hotline and share the title and author and our advocates will add it to our “to read” list. We can only end sexual violence when we unite together. No matter what.
TECHNOLOGY
CCRI’s mission is to combat online abuses that threaten civil rights and civil liberties.
cybercivilrights.org
An activity created by RESTORE’s Training team to help prioritize technological safety and raise awareness of your own blind spots as it relates to privacy access and other tech safety aspects.
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A resource created by RESTORE’s Training team suitable for any age, highlighting helpful resources directly related to internet and technology safety.
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A resource from the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s Safety Net Project, detailing the role technology plays within domestic violence situations and when used by human traffickers.
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Trauma Informed Care MATERIALS
(TIC)
NYS Trauma-Informed Network & Resource Center aims to support and spread trauma-informed work and wellness practices across New York State through connection to resources, events, and each other.
www.traumainformedny.org
A self-regulation tool created by RESTORE’s Mental Health team to highlight the optimal mental space for learning, processing, connecting, and making good decisions.
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A resource created by the RESTORE Education team providing descriptions and examples of Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, and Flop – The 5 F’s of Trauma Response.
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Intimate Partner Violence
(IPV)
A resource from Forge Forward, an organization working to build strength and resilience in our transgender communities. This resource details possible threats used against, and control tactics used by, trans partners.
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A resource created by the RESTORE Education team, suitable for any age, highlighting the freedoms you have to be yourself without disrespecting others.
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A resource created by the RESTORE Education team, geared toward adolescents, to highlight the rules/markers of consent.
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A resource created by the RESTORE Education team, geared toward adolescents, to highlight the rules/markers of a healthy relationship.
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historical intersections
This program includes a brief overview of the historical intersections of sexual violence with anti-Black violence in the United States. It explores sexual violence in proximity to civil rights movements such as desegregation and voter access. This program was developed by Training Coordinator Lauren Berger and research was principally from At The Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire.
