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Crime victim services

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Disaster Distress Helpline

The Disaster Distress Helpline is dedicated to providing year-round disaster crisis counseling. This toll free, multilingual, crisis support service is available 24/7 via telephone 800–985–5990 (for Spanish, press 2) and SMS (text 'TalkWithUs', or for Spanish, text 'Hablanos', to 66746) to residents in the U.S. and its territories who are experiencing emotional distress related to natural or man-made disasters.

Cyber Civil Rights Initiative

This organization provides victims of intimate image abuse (nonconsensual intimate image sharing), and other forms of online abuse with support and referral services. Contact their toll free Image Abuse Helpline hotline at 844-878-2274. The Initiative also offers information for policymakers, attorneys, and others to help them understand and combat image-based sexual abuse.

National Identity Theft Victims Assistance Network

This OVC-funded program seeks to expand and improve the outreach and capacity of victim service programs to assist victims of identity theft and cybercrime. This national network seeks to build capacity to provide assistance to victims of these crimes and encourage the expansion of existing victim service programs and coalitions.