Category: Local Resources & Support

Off-Campus Support Groups & Meetups

SCARS Survivor Collective Peer Meetups
“We want you to feel welcome in our Survivor-led Support & Outreach Community with Survivor Collective Alliance Reaching Society (SCARS). We are a grassroots, non-profit organization run by volunteer Survivors and we would be to happy to have you join our community! Together we will share about where we have come from in our experience with abuse and talk about ways we can move forward into hope and healing. We are intentional in our process to create an inclusive and empowering space for making connections, building community, and helping each other in the process through mutual understanding and support.”

Call to Safety Support Groups
“Call to Safety provides free and confidential support groups throughout the year.  We offer groups for adult survivors of childhood trauma and groups for survivors who experienced sexual assault in adulthood. Support groups are open to people of all genders. Groups are between 8 and 10 weeks long and are usually held in the evenings or on a weekend.”

Allies in Change Groups

• “Our Women's Abuse Recovery counseling group focuses on providing support to women who are either currently in or have been in an abusive relationship. Group members work towards recovery by learning about various forms of abuse and controlling behaviors and beliefs, while learning how to set clear boundaries, develop effective communication skills, and practice positive self-care. The group offers support for day-to-day living in addition to examining the challenges of relationships.”
• “Our relationship group, Becoming Allies, is a counseling group facilitated by Dr. Chris Huffine, Psy.D., and is designed to help men learn how to be more effective in relationships. This counseling group is a positive and collaborative experience that focuses heavily on communication, working with each other, and striving to change for the better.”
• “Abuse Intervention Groups provide an accountable and supportive setting for men to understand the role of male socialization, identify the ways they have been abusive or controlling of others, examine and change their beliefs about abuse, and practice acceptable alternatives to abuse.”

SASS Support Groups
“The mission of Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) is to provide services to survivors of past and present sexual violence and to change societal conditions that allow oppression, especially sexual violence, to exist. SASS creates social change by supporting survivors, and through prevention education, community collaboration, organizing, and outreach.”

• Bimonthly online support groups

Sexual Assault Resource Center (SARC) Support Groups
“SARC’s Mental Health Program offers a variety of groups. Support groups can be an important part of healing for survivors as they decrease the sense of isolation that many survivors feel and can be helpful in working through interpersonal challenges. SARC’s group program offerings may vary throughout the year as we try to provide a combination of ongoing process-oriented support groups and time-limited topic-specific groups.”

Clackamas Women’s Services (CWS) Support Group
“This group is for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Domestic violence can include many different types of abuse. Abuse tactics could be financial, emotional, spiritual, psychological, verbal, sexual, as well as physical abuse. The person being abusive could be an intimate partner, a family member, friend, co-worker, or stranger. This could have happened very recently or something that occurred a while ago. Though we will not know the full extent of each other’s experiences, we can come together as a group and honor what we each bring to the table.”

1in6 Support Groups
“The mission of 1in6 is to help men who have had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences live healthier, happier lives. Our mission also includes serving family members, friends, partners, and service providers by providing information and support resources on the web and in the community.”

• Weekly online support groups
  “Our online support groups offer support to men in their journeys of trauma recovery, with a focus on education and mutual support. Each support group functions just like a chat room: choose an anonymous display name, enter the group, and start typing. There’s no audio or video, and no personal information is collected. A counselor is present to facilitate each session.”