GSA
www.geneticsexualattraction.com
The website is meant to help those who are victims of separation and reunion of blood family members and who are unable to understand what they are feeling. We are here to educate through others experience and to help you understand what GSA is or is not.
After Adoption
ActionLine: 0800 0 568 578
TALKadoption: 0808 808 1234
BirthTies: 0800 840 2020
www.afteradoption.org.uk
After Adoption offers a wide range of services and provides information, support and advice to all those affected by adoption. Working with children, families and adults to offer support throughout the adoption process. This can involve helping a birth parent to overcome the loss of their child to adoption, helping an adopted adult to search for their birth relatives, giving support to adoptive families and providing information to birth relatives. The Action Line also offers advice and support for people who have become attracted to a parent or sibling and who may have experienced a sexual relationship.
Post-Adoption Centre
Advice Line: 020 7284 5879
Mon to Thurs, 10am to 1pm, and Thurs evenings, 5.50pm to 7.30pm
www.postadoptioncentre.org.uk
Trained and experienced counsellors offer a friendly listening ear, confidential advice, course and workshop details and, where appropriate, appointments for face-to-face counselling or referrals to other services
Natural Parents Network
www.n-p-n.co.uk
A support organisation for natural parents and other relatives who have lost children to adoption. Natural Parents Network is a self help organisation, which offers non-judgmental, confidential and independent support to people who share similar experiences.
Abuse
ChildLine
Helpline: 0800 1111 (24 hours)
www.childline.org.uk
Free, confidential 24-hour helpline staffed by counsellors specially for children and young people to talk about any issue that is worrying them. Lines can be busy so keep trying. You can talk to a counsellor online as well as other young people via the message boards. The ChildLine website also contains a lots of information and advice on various topics including abuse, domestic violence, bullying and exam stress.
NSPCC
Helpline: 0808 800 5000 (24 hours, every day)
www.nspcc.org.uk
UK's leading charity specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. The free helpline is for anyone, children or adults, concerned about a child at risk of abuse. The NSPCC also runs high profile campaigns for children's rights, such as Full Stop and administers 180 regional teams and projects, and conducts research into child abuse and its effects.
Childwatch
Helpline: 01482 325 552
www.childwatch.org.uk
Do you feel unable to talk about your problems to your parents? Do you have problems at home? Are you being bullied at school? Do your friends pressure you to do things you don’t want to do? Do you have problems with drugs or the police? Do you feel scared or anxious, but don’t know why? We offer free confidential counselling and support to victims of abuse. We are here to help whether you are a young person or an adult and the phone line is open 9am until 5pm Monday to Friday. Lots of people call us every day about things that are making them unhappy. Whatever the problem is, whatever is going on in your life, please call us
Kidscape
Helpline: 08451 205 204
www.kidscape.org.uk
Committed to keeping children safe from bullying and child abuse, the helpline offers advice to parents on any concerns about school bullying. The website includes a forum for children to talk about their experiences of bullying, details of courses to help children to cope with bullying and you can order free booklets and leaflets on child safety and the prevention of bullying and abuse.
Survivor Support
Family Matters
Helpline: 01474 537 392
www.familymattersuk.org
If you have been subjected to sexual abuse and rape, one of your biggest challenges will be taking the decision to talk to someone. At Family Matters we know this can seem an enormous and daunting step. Anxiety and fear are among the most common emotions experienced by the abused. But these feelings do become easier and people can, and do, successfully go on to explore their past and its links with today in making sense of recurring problems.
CIS’ters
Helpline: 02380 338080
Email: admin@cisters.org.uk
CIS'ters is an emotional support service for adult women who were sexually abused, as girls, by a member of their immediate or extended family. The service offers a national helpline, newsletter and workshops. In addition we also provide training for workers in other agencies, including statutory sector. We signpost male survivors to other agencies. Actively campaign to raise awareness re the impact of childhood sexual abuse and the unmet needs of all victims (male and female and child/adult survivor).
Survivors UK
Helpline 0845 122 1201
www.survivorsuk.org
Provides information, support and counselling for men who have been raped or sexually abused.
RASAC (Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre)
National Helpline: 0808 802 9999 (12-2.30 & 7-9.30)
www.rasasc.bizview.co.uk
National helpline for survivors of rape and childhood sexual abuse (male and female), their families and friends. Provides emotional and practical support.
NAPAC (National Association of People Abuse in Childhood)
Helpline 0800 085 3330
www.napac.org.uk
We are the only national organisation focused on supporting adults who have been abused in any way as children. We know that most children who are abused don't talk about it until they become adults and NAPAC exists to support survivors of child abuse when want to talk and receive support.
Family Matters
Helpline: 01474 537 392
www.familymattersuk.org
For men, women and children who have survived childhood sexual abuse, rape or sexual assault.
MOSAC
Helpline: 0800 980 1958
www.mosac.org.uk
Mosac is a voluntary organisation supporting all non-abusing parents and carers whose children have been sexually abused. We provide various types of support services and information for parents, carers and professionals dealing with child sexual abuse.
The Rape and Abuse Line (RAL)
Helpline: 0808 800 0123 answered by women
Helpline:0808 800 0122 answered by men
www.rapeandabuseline.co.uk
A registered charity that offers a freephone, confidential helpline to persons who have survived rape or abuse however long ago the experiences were.
Women Against Rape
www.womenagainstrape.net
This is the joint website of Women Against Rape and Black Women's Rape Action Project. Both organisations are based on self-help and provide support, legal information and advocacy. We campaign for justice and protection for all women and girls, including asylum seekers, who have suffered sexual, domestic and/or racist violence.
Rape Crisis
www.rapecrisis.org.uk
National Organisation offering support and counselling for those affected by rape and sexual abuse.
See website for local groups or contact directory enquiries.