:: Resources from Silence Speaks

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The Arts and Healing Network has for more than ten years served as a welcoming online resource for those interested in the healing potentials of art, demonstrating how creativity can be a catalyst for positive change within communities.

Center for Digital Storytelling, the sponsoring organization for Silence Speaks, developed the original digital storytelling methodology and continues to offer public workshops and manage digital storytelling programs nationally and internationally.

Center for Media Justice makes strategic communications and media activism creative, accessible, and relevant to organizers, journalists, artists, and the everyday majority whose voices are pushed to the margins.

Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information.

Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma provides articles, expert interviews, tip sheets and other resources, serving as a multimedia venue for discussion of controversies and breakthroughs in trauma science, policy and media coverage.

Hot Peach Pages offer a global inventory of hotlines, shelters, refuges, crisis centers, and women's organizations, searchable by country, as well as an index of gender-based violence resources in more than 70 languages.

Human Rights Watch focuses international attention where human rights are violated in order to lay the legal and moral groundwork for greater justice and security to people around the world.

International Center for Transitional Justice assists countries emerging from repressive rule or armed conflict, as well as those with established democracies where historical injustices or systemic abuse remain unresolved, in pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuses.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission advocates against discrimination or abuse based on actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression.

Generative Somatics offers training, consultation, and resources on an approach that attends to both the individual experience of trauma and the social context in which it occurs as critical to understanding, healing, and transformation.

Men Engage Alliance works to promote the involvement of men and boys in struggles for gender equality, health promotion, and violence prevention at the global level.

Peace Media Clearinghouse provides access to multimedia materials that support conflict analysis and prevention, conflict resolution, and post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation.

Survivors’ Art Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to empowering trauma survivors with effective expressive outlets via an Internet Art Gallery, national exhibitions, and publications.

The Trauma Center offers training, consultation, and educational resources on traumatic memory and how treatment effects trauma survivors' minds and bodies, and brains.

Witness advances human rights advocacy and strengthens grassroots movements for change by providing training on video production and assisting its partners to use video as evidence.

WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system.