Suggested Reading & Lending Library

Survivor Library

TREE Climbers believes that education is an important part of healing from sexual abuse. However, there are often barriers to accessing educational materials. A survey by Pandora’s Aquarium, an online support group, message board & chat room for rape, sexual assault & sexual abuse survivors / victims, found that 64% of their members had been unable to locate healing-related materials within their library’s lending system and almost 40% of members cited cost as a barrier to buying books. Even if a library or bookstore has an extensive selection of material about sexual assault, 31% of respondents were too embarrassed to order or take them out.

Pandoras Aquarium has created a library for survivors of rape and sexual abuse, which can be found here. They provide books as well as articles, essays, and other reading material for survivors of sexual violence.

We are currently working on our own pilot program for lending books to CSA survivors. If you would like to donate or purchase a book to support this project, please send an email to Roxine@treeclimbersinc.org. TREE Climbers operates as a 501(c)3 charitable organization, all donations are tax-deductible.

Suggested Reading

Activism & Social Change

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence–from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Transforming a Rape Culture

The Public Nature of Private Violence: Women and the Discovery of Abuse

Suggested Reading & Lending Library

Survivor Library

Suggested Reading

For survivors

For Male Survivors

For Female Survivors

For parents/guardians of CSA Survivors

For Partners of Survivors

For Teens

For Children

For Children (Prevention)

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