Empowering survivors of sexual crimes to find their voice, advance their healing and educate others.

 
 

Education | Prevention | Advocacy | Support

Survivors Speak®

Empowering survivors to share their stories through specialized professional training in public speaking and team building, allowing them to advance their own healing while helping to educate audiences of all kinds.

Being part of the Survivors Speak team lets me feel a sense of community. We are connected in so many ways…body, mind and soul. I’ve found people like me. The perpetrator took away my innocence, but he can never take away my spirit.
— Mary Taylor, Survivors Speak Outreach Team

Community Outreach and Advocacy

Engaging individuals in the community, in the legislature, at businesses, corporations and organizations to work together to create real and meaningful change.

We all have a role to play…remember this is personal, there is no such thing as ‘not in my neighborhood.’ Sexual crimes affect us all; our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, our brothers, our friends, our co-workers and our children.
— Donna Palomba, Founder and President, Jane Doe No More

Safe Student Initiative®

Educating students from middle school to college through age-appropriate, survivor-led interactive programs including safe and unsafe touch, sexual respect, healthy relationships, consent, bystander intervention and rape culture.

Our students were moved by how brave the speakers were for sharing their personal stories. Hearing from survivors firsthand will have a lasting impact.
— Katelyn Giulino, Health Teacher, Naugatuck High School

Escape Alive
Survival Skills®

Training women and girls to stay safe physically, emotionally and intellectually through personal prevention strategies, confidence-building skills, awareness tips, and kick, strike and blow techniques.

I can’t say enough great things about this program. I attended with two friends and our daughters and we couldn’t stop talking about what an amazing experience it was. To say we walked away feeling empowered is an understatement. Thank you for giving us an afternoon we will never forget.
— Escape Alive Survival Skills Participant, WCSU Danbury

Duty Trumps Doubt™

Changing perspectives through our trauma-informed video and survivor-led presentations specifically designed to help law enforcement, medical personnel, legal professionals and society as a whole, to better understand victims of sexual crimes.

Everyone was highly impacted by your stories. The team definitely wants to continue our partnership moving forward.
— Sergeant Jason Hyland, UConn Police Department START Team

Spotlight

Dylan Farrow

We are so proud of the amazing Dylan Farrow, a member of our
Jane Doe No More Survivors Speak Outreach Team for speaking her truth and empowering other survivors of sexual crimes.

ALLEN vs. FARROW
Part 2 of a 4 part series
Sunday, February 28 at 9pm ET on HBO

What you think you know is just the tip of the iceberg.#AllenVFarrow, a four-part original documentary series from award-winning investigative filmmakers Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy, premieres February 21 on @hbomaxpic.twitter.com/vUBKdkYRVr

— HBO (@HBO)
February 5, 2021

"There were so many points in this journey where I've felt worried or just downright terrified and Jane Doe No More gave me the courage to keep going. I know I wouldn't have had the emotional fortitude to pursue this series if it hadn't been for all the support I've gotten from Jane Doe No More. Connecting with other survivors was so immensely helpful in helping me feel less isolated and alone. They have been an incredibly valuable resource to me over the past several years. We are stronger together."
- Dylan Farrow

 

#voice2change

In 2007, our founder, Donna Palomba’s case was the impetus for the removal of Connecticut’s statute of limitations on sexual crimes with DNA evidence.

“Donna has not only fought back from a vicious assault, she has made this change in the law a part of her personal mission to improve the treatment of victims and the pursuit of justice,” the Governor said. “Her story – ‘Jane Doe No More’ – is told on her web site, www.janedoenomore.org. The site also has important resources and links for assault victims. Her advocacy for this change makes her a true Connecticut hero and I salute her.”

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