PERRY BULWER - BRIGHT ON THE EDGE

RELIGION AND CHILD ABUSE ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS

• reFOCUS: Recovery resources for folks hurt by their involvement with abusive and controlling organizations and relationships.
• COUNSELING FOR FORMER CULT MEMBERS
  A licensed therapist and cult recovery counselor who has worked with more than 2,000 former members from a variety of cults: Christian, Eastern, New Age, multilevel marketing, psychology, and other groups.
• Venice Family Clinic provides comprehensive primary health care and mental health services
  Starting Sept 15, 2008 VFC will offer free service for people who have left cults or other tightly controlled groups, often burdened by their previous acculturation to beliefs and behaviors foreign to mainstream society.
• Freedom From Abuse Network
  Freedom from physical, emotional, sexual and spiritual abuse.
• PERSONS AGAINST RITUAL ABUSE - TORTURE
  Since 1993 we have been relationship educators and human rights defenders working with persons who have experienced various forms of relational violence, including ritual abuse-torture.
• End Ritual Abuse
  Advocacy for victims of ritual abuse and mind control
• RISE International
  RISE International works to protect children from abuse in cults.
• International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)
  Founded in 1979, the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a global network of people concerned about psychological manipulation and abuse in cults, cultic groups, alternative movements, and other environments.
• Moving On - A website by and for young adults whose parents joined The Family/Children of God cult
• ExFamily - A website exposing The Family International/Children of God Cult
• XFamily - A collaboratively edited encyclopedia about The Family/Children of God cult.
• Catharsis Foundation - Services & Support For Survivors of Child Abuse
• The HOPE Organization
  A non-profit group dedicated to assisting survivors of abuse within polygamous relationships.
• State of Utah Attorney General's Office
  Polygamy is illegal in Utah and forbidden by the Arizona constitution. However, law enforcement agencies in both states have decided to focus on crimes within polygamous communities that involve child abuse, domestic violence and fraud.
• Stop Baptist Predators: Shining light on Baptist clergy sex abuse
• SNAP - Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
• Bishop Accountability - Documenting the Abuse Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church
• City of Angels 3: Clergy Cases - documenting clergy abuse in the Catholic Church
• ExCS UK: The website for former Christian Scientists
• CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
  A national advocacy group working to reform America’s failing child welfare systems on behalf of the abused & neglected children who depend on them for protection.
• Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.)
  CHILD is a non-profit national membership organization established in 1983 to protect children from abusive religious and cultural practices, especially religion-based medical neglect. CHILD opposes religious exemptions from duties of care for children.
• Children Are Unbeatable - Campaigning to provide children the same protection from assault as adults have.
• Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
• Ex-Scientology Kids
• Scientology & Dianetics: Tax-exempt Child Abuse and Neglect ?
• Witnesses describe child lockups by Scientologists
• Cover up of pedophile child sexual abuse by Scientology
• Enturbulation: Information on Activism Against Scientology
• Jewish Survivors of Sexual Violence Speak Out
• JSafe: The Jewish Institute Supporting an Abuse-Free Environment
  Works to promote a Jewish community in which all of its institutions and organizations conduct themselves responsibly and effectively in addressing the wrongs of domestic violence, child abuse and professional improprieties.
• The Awareness Center: Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault
• Children of Nigeria
  Advocacy For Children Accused of Witchcraft
• Tony Alamo News
  A Resource For Victims and Survivors of Alamo Christian Ministries
• Peebs.Net is a website that endeavors to investigate and report the Truth behind the Exclusive Brethren
  Helping break the chains and break down the barriers that prevent us from seeing our families, friends and loved ones, trapped in what many are calling a bona fide Cult.
• Trancenet: Critical Resource on the Transcendental Meditation Technique and related programs associated with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• TM-Free Blog: Independent views of the Transcendental Meditation Orgs and their founder, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Scandals, research, insider secrets, and more.
• DIVORCE, BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS, AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
• RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): the largest U.S. anti-sexual assault organization. Help is now available through the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline.
• The End of Hereditary Religion: A resource for people determined to stop the hereditary nature of religion so innocent children can grow up free of superstition and dogma.
• ISPCAN: The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
  ISPCAN's mission is to prevent cruelty to children in every nation, in every form: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, street children, child fatalities, child prostitution, children of war, emotional abuse and child labor.
• The Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence
• National Association to PROTECT Children
  PROTECT is a national pro-child, anti-crime membership association. We are founded on the belief that our first and most sacred obligation as parents, citizens, and members of the human species is the protection of children from harm.
• National Association to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children
  NAPSAC is an organization dedicated to the prevention of childhood sexual abuse and the support of survivors through education, advocacy and legal reform.