How to Get Help if You're a Victim—You are not alone! There are resources available when you're ready for them—and these people are here to help you with everything from counseling/support groups to legal services, and they don't expect you to have your head together.

For Homicide Survivors:

The National Coalition of Homicide Survivors, Inc at http://www.mivictims.org/nchs/

Parents of Murdered Children at http://www.pomc.com/

The Center for Trauma Recovery at Julie and Robin's University of Missouri at St. Louis: http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/artscience/...

NOVA—The Network of Victims Assistance at http://www.novabucks.org/

Murder Victims.Com at http://www.murdervictims.com/

General Resources for Rape and Violent Crime Victims:

The National Center for Victims of Crime—probably the most comprehensive site of its kind: http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/Main.aspx

Safe Horizon (great counseling services): www.safehorizon.net

Victims Assistance Online: http://www.vaonline.org/

The Center for Victims of Violence and Crime: http://www.cvvc.org/

Government Agency: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/

Victim & Victimology Resources—this is a HUGE list of helpful international, national, and local links for victims: http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~dreveskr/...