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

Thank You Rotary Club of Niantic

Rachel O’Grady, a member of our Survivors Speak Outreach Team, was given the opportunity to share her story and speak about Jane Doe No More at the Rotary Club of Niantic Luncheon in December.

Rachel O’Grady

A passionate volunteer, Rachel is always ready to share her experience and talk about the work of Jane Doe No More. Thank you Rachel for your commitment to our mission.

Together we are empowering survivors and educating others on the role each of us can play in the prevention of sexual crimes.

If your club or organization is interested in having Jane Doe No More present to your group, please fill out the application here.

 

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Ghislaine Maxwell's guilty verdict exposes defense's victim-blaming disgrace

On December 29, 2021, after 6 days of deliberation. a jury of six men and six women found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty on five of six federal charges for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses.

The defense strategy of blaming the victims did not work in this case. It is an all too common and incredibly disturbing tactic. Learn more

Your honor, the government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt and so there is no need for me to testify.
— Ghislaine Maxwell

The quote above are the only words spoken by Ghislaine Maxwell during the trial. Obviously and thankfully the jury disagreed.