If you're on the long-term journey toward healing, there are many things you can do:

Get creative - Writing poetry, keeping a journal, painting, etc. are all therapeutic activities that allow you to express your emotions in healthy ways.

Volunteer - Donate time to your local crisis center. Many offer youth-oriented opportunities. Becoming an advocate for other survivors can help you heal from your own experience.

Read about it - Knowledge is power. Read accounts by other survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse. Books like Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" can offer insight and help you see that you're not alone.

Submit your stuff - Write a letter to the editor of your community newspaper to raise awareness about sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse. Submit an article for your school newspaper on these issues. Write your legislators at the local, state and national levels. Urge them to commit additional resources to ensure that survivors get the services they deserve.

Get involved! - Organize a rally with a speaker and/or a band. Include an "open mic" so people can voice their opinions, read poetry, sing, etc. Your local crisis center can be an excellent resource for this!

Organize a Chalk Walk Day at your school (make sure you get the principal's permission!). Cover your school's sidewalk with messages and statistics that raise awareness of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse and call for ending it.

Get your "tattoo" to raise awareness. Request your Awareness-Raising Tool Kit and help educate family, friends and members of your community about the impact of domestic violence and abuse. Click here to learn more and to order your tool kit.