![]() ![]() ![]() The telephone hotline connects callers with a local resource center and the online hotline, also confidential and anonymous, allows an individual to be in a secure one-on-one chat with a RAINN staff member. It is confidential, anonymous, and available 24/7. The National Sexual Assault Hotline has helped more than 2 million people since 1994. Related: Millions Earmarked to Clear Massive Rape Kit Backlog It was the beginning of seeing that the rape wouldn’t be the end of my life.” It was a turning point for Matis: “It was everything I needed to hear and hadn’t been told before. It’s not because of something you did wrong.” I was asking myself again and again and again, What could I have done different? And then she told me that rapists cause rape. She told me that no one causes rape but rapists, which seems obvious now but didn’t seem obvious at all to me then. “The woman I spoke to the very first time was so fantastic and incredible - and she told me it was not my fault. “After reactions had surprised and shaken me from people I had trusted, I decided to call a professional who would be able to help,” she shares. That’s when she called RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline. After Matis’ rapist had been found innocent by Colorado College’s Title IX adjudication process, Mantis found herself quickly losing hope - and losing her sense of herself. ![]()
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