“You were created to love and be loved. You were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and be known. You need to know that your story is important and that you’re part of a bigger story.  You need to know that your life matters.”The statement above comes from To Write Love on Her Arms, a non-profit organization dedicated to rediscovering hope and finding help for people with severe problems such as depression, eating disorders, abuse and more. While only beginning in 2006 as a way to help a friend, To Write Love on Her Arms has expanded and have now responded to 150,000 pleas of help from people in 40 different countries. However, while being a non-profit organization, To Write Love on Her Arms is not a 24hour helpline, nor are they professionals, but TWLOHA does provide links to other sites, ranging from eating disorder support sites to suicide prevention help lines.. To Write Love on Her Arms is located at twloha.coms.Every two minutes, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted and each year there are about 213,00 victims of sexual assault, according to the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN). RAINN is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization and works to educate the public about sexual assault, leads national efforts to prevent sexual assault, improve services to victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice. This organization created and also runs the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE. With this hot line provides victims of sexual assault with free, confidential services at any time of the day. The National Sexual Assault Hotline helped 137,039 sexual assault victims in 2005 and has helped more than 1.5 million since it began in 1994. Along with running the hot line, the site also provides information and statistics about sexual assault and how to prevent it, how to cope with it, information for friends and families of a victim of sexual assault, how to save evidence to bring the assaulter to justice and how to get involved. To learn more, donate, or even talk about a sexual assault, support can be found at rainn.org.

According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, also known as The Hotline, teens are seriously at risk for dating violence. Research shows that physical or sexual abuse is a part of one in three high school relationships, but there are available hot lines to look to for answers. One of these sites being, the National Domestic Violence Hotline at www.thehotline.org/. Two out of three (66 percent) strongly agreed that domestic violence is a serious, widespread social problem in America. The Hotline is a non-profit organization that provides crisis information, help and referral to victims. The website also provides tips for whether or not one is unsure of if they have been abused or not. Celebrities support the organization, two being Salma Hayek and Martina McBride, both joining the National Domestic Violence Hotline to make personal commitments to promoting healthy, respectful relationships. The website also encourages donations to its cause as a way to continue funding the hot line. More than 600 families call the National Domestic Violence Hotline to escape from family violence and without this funding, what would happen if the hot line disappeared?  Along with tips and statistics, the hot line also provides information for immigrants who are dealing with domestic abuse. The number provided is the number to contact the hot line 1-800-799-SAFE.

In 1994, an Academy Award winning short film, Trevor, inspired the support group The Trevor Project. The movie, Trevor, about a gay 13-year-old boy who, when rejected by friends because of his sexuality, makes an attempt to take his life. After the movie aired on HBO, the filmmakers realized that the young viewers of the movie might be experiencing the same crisis. After they discovered that no such support line existed, the filmmakers decided to dedicate themselves to creating an organization to promote acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and to aid in crisis and suicide prevention among that group.The three organization values of The Trevor Project are acceptance, commitment and innovation.  The website supplies a way to send emails and letters as a way for support as well as responding to each of the letters as a way of helping. Lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers and suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15 to 24-year-olds. Located at http://www.thetrevorproject.org/, The Trevor Project support line is 866 4-U-TREVOR.

Listed above are only three of the many helplines provided and are by no means the only websites people can access. If you are desperate for help , then please go to the websites that were given. If you are suffering from something that was not listed, then at the TWLOHA website, more websites are listed.