Organizations Supporting Jeffrey Epstein Survivors
Snapshot
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have relied on a wide network of organizations for crisis intervention, counseling, legal navigation, financial guidance, public advocacy, media support, survivor mentoring, and assistance with rebuilding their lives.
Some of the most important organizations were created by Epstein survivors themselves. These include SOAR, Speak Out, Act, Reclaim, founded by Virginia Roberts Giuffre; Survivor Sisters, created collectively by women abused within the Epstein and Maxwell network; The Survivors, Inc., founded by survivors and members of their legal team; the Survivors Initiative, established by Jennifer Araoz; the Kintsugi Foundation, founded by Anouska De Georgiou; and The Jane Doe Foundation, founded by Epstein survivor Wendy Pesante.
These organizations do not all perform the same work. Some provide or coordinate practical survivor services. Others concentrate on public education, legislative reform, document transparency, prevention, or collective advocacy. A campaign that amplifies survivor voices should not be mistaken for a crisis center, licensed therapy provider, law firm, shelter, or compensation program.
Other organizations, including World Without Exploitation, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, The Survivors Trust, RAINN, Safe Horizon, and local rape crisis centers, have supported Epstein survivors or provide services that survivors can use.
This article distinguishes organizations founded by Epstein survivors from organizations founded by other survivors, general service providers, advocacy coalitions, government programs, and closed compensation mechanisms.
Immediate Support Resources
Anyone in immediate danger in the United States should contact emergency services by calling 911 when it is safe to do so.
Survivors seeking confidential support can contact:
- RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline by calling 800 656 HOPE, or 800 656 4673. Online chat is available through RAINN, and survivors can text HOPE to 64673.
- The National Human Trafficking Hotline by calling 888 373 7888, texting 233733, or using its online chat. The hotline states that it operates around the clock, offers confidential assistance, and can communicate in more than two hundred languages.
- The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 in the United States.
- The VictimConnect Resource Center by calling or texting 855 484 2846 or using its online chat. VictimConnect helps people understand options and locate appropriate services.
A hotline can provide emotional support, safety planning, and referrals. Calling a hotline does not create an attorney client relationship or guarantee admission to a shelter, financial assistance, or participation in an investigation.
Why Survivor Founded Organizations Matter
Survivors frequently describe traditional institutions as difficult to navigate, fragmented, or insufficiently responsive to the realities of trauma.
Epstein survivors confronted additional obstacles. These included Epstein’s money and social influence, aggressive legal tactics, confidentiality agreements, public scrutiny, harassment, disputes over sealing, institutional failures, and the repeated circulation of intimate evidence.
Survivor founded organizations can respond differently because their priorities are shaped by lived experience. They may recognize needs that conventional organizations overlook, including:
- Support during public exposure and media attention.
- Help communicating with lawyers, investigators, and government agencies.
- Assistance understanding court records and document releases.
- Peer contact with people who survived the same offender or network.
- Protection against victim blaming and online harassment.
- Long term support after litigation or compensation ends.
- Advocacy that does not require a survivor to surrender control of her story.
- Public education about grooming, coercion, trauma, and delayed disclosure.
- Financial and career support for survivors whose education or employment was disrupted.
- Reform of institutions that protected powerful offenders.
Survivor leadership does not remove the need for professional standards. Organizations providing therapy, legal advice, medical care, housing, or financial services must still operate within the rules governing those services.
Different Categories of Support
The organizations discussed in this article can be divided into several categories.
| Category | Principal purpose | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Epstein survivor founded organizations | Peer support, advocacy, education, resource navigation, and reform | SOAR, Survivor Sisters, The Survivors, Inc., Survivors Initiative, Kintsugi Foundation, The Jane Doe Foundation |
| Direct service organizations | Crisis support, counseling, housing, legal services, and case management | RAINN, Safe Horizon, GEMS, EVA Center, My Life My Choice |
| Advocacy coalitions | Public education, legislation, organizing, and institutional reform | World Without Exploitation, NOW, End Violence Against Women Coalition |
| Local survivor services | Location based counseling, advocacy, forensic support, and shelter | Palm Beach County Victim Services, Women’s Coalition of St. Croix, Family Resource Center |
| Legal and financial mechanisms | Compensation, civil claims, attorney referrals, and crime victim benefits | Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, civil settlements, National Crime Victim Bar Association |
| Research and documentation projects | Timelines, records, survivor testimony, and public accountability | Survivor Sisters, Epstein Data, court archives, independent sleuth research |
The same organization can operate in more than one category.
SOAR, Speak Out, Act, Reclaim
SOAR is the most prominent organization founded by an Epstein survivor.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre created SOAR to support survivors of sex trafficking, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. Its name stands for Speak Out, Act, Reclaim.
The organization’s official mission page describes its work as creating pathways for healing, empowerment, and advocacy. It identifies public education, survivor advocacy, and institutional reform as central parts of its mission.
SOAR describes itself as survivor led. Its board includes members of Giuffre’s family and survivor advocates. Following Giuffre’s death in April 2025, her family undertook renewed work to continue the organization and preserve her advocacy legacy.
The organization states that it is a nonprofit recognized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its current public material describes plans to build programs by asking what forms of assistance would have helped Giuffre.
SOAR’s principal areas of work include:
- Survivor centered public education.
- Advocacy for legal and institutional reform.
- Resources for survivors of trafficking, abuse, and domestic violence.
- Preservation of Giuffre’s work and testimony.
- Support for survivor participation in public policy discussions.
- Development of pathways for healing and empowerment.
SOAR is broader than the Epstein case. Its mission includes survivors who were abused by other offenders or within other institutions.
The organization should not be described as a substitute for emergency services, licensed therapy, or individual legal representation unless a specific SOAR program expressly provides that service.
Virginia Giuffre’s Earlier Advocacy Project
Before the current SOAR organization took shape, Giuffre promoted survivor advocacy through a project known as Victims Refuse Silence.
Public descriptions of the project varied over time. It was presented as an effort to educate the public about trafficking and help survivors obtain support.
The history is important because it shows that Giuffre’s organizational work developed over many years. However, Victims Refuse Silence should not be listed as a separate current service provider unless a functioning organization and current contact system can be verified.
SOAR is the clearer current organizational identity associated with Giuffre’s advocacy.
Survivor Sisters
Survivor Sisters was created by women abused within the network operated by Epstein and Maxwell.
Its official description presents the project as a survivor created initiative dedicated to truth, justice, and healing. It provides a collective platform through which survivors can preserve their voices, explain the history of the case, and advocate for accountability.
The organization’s work includes:
- A sourced timeline of abuse and accountability.
- Collections of survivor interviews and public appearances.
- Information about unresolved investigative questions.
- Public education concerning Epstein, Maxwell, and institutional failures.
- Opportunities for members of the public to express support for survivors.
- Advocacy for transparency and continued investigation.
Survivor Sisters is particularly valuable as a collective record. The Epstein story was often told through the names of offenders, lawyers, politicians, financiers, and celebrities. Survivor Sisters shifts the focus toward the women who supplied evidence, challenged secrecy, and endured the consequences of speaking publicly.
The site includes sensitive accounts of abuse. Readers should approach the material carefully and should not reproduce survivor testimony without considering context, consent, privacy, and possible harm.
Survivor Sisters is principally an advocacy, documentation, and public education initiative. It should not automatically be described as a crisis hotline, treatment provider, shelter, or law firm.
The Survivors, Inc.
The Survivors, Inc. is a Florida based nonprofit founded by survivors and members of their legal team.
Its stated mission is to support and empower people who have experienced sexual assault or human trafficking. Unlike organizations focused primarily on public transparency, The Survivors, Inc. describes a practical resource model intended to help survivors rebuild their lives.
Services and areas of assistance described by the organization include:
- Trauma informed life coaching.
- Resource navigation.
- Family support.
- Financial education.
- Career planning.
- Educational assistance.
- Help locating mental health providers.
- Support managing public exposure.
- Guidance while navigating legal and administrative systems.
- Mentorship and personal development.
An Epstein survivor discussing the organization during a 2026 congressional proceeding explained that survivors do not all possess legal representation, therapy, stable support systems, or the resources needed to manage the consequences of abuse. The organization was presented as an attempt to address those differences.
The Survivors, Inc. expressly distinguishes navigation and support from legal advice. Survivors should consult a licensed attorney for advice concerning claims, statutes of limitation, releases, settlements, evidence, or participation in an investigation.
The organization is significant because it emerged from collective survivor experience rather than from an institution responding after public criticism.
The Survivors Initiative
Epstein survivor Jennifer Araoz announced the creation of the Survivors Initiative in 2020.
The project was described as a support network for people who experienced sexual abuse or trafficking. Its announced plans included survivor support groups, legal referrals, advocacy, and partnerships intended to protect young people from exploitation.
Araoz stated that she wanted survivors to have access to the kinds of support that can be difficult to locate after abuse. Contemporary reporting described planned activities in New York and Washington.
The Survivors Initiative is important historically because it represents one of the earliest publicly announced organizations created by an Epstein survivor after Epstein’s 2019 arrest.
However, a current official website, current program calendar, and current public service directory could not be clearly verified for this article. It should therefore be described as a documented survivor founded initiative whose present operating status requires confirmation.
Readers should verify current contact information before relying on the project for services or making a donation in its name.
The Kintsugi Foundation
Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou founded the Kintsugi Foundation.
Public reporting describes the foundation as a nonprofit focused on helping women recover from addiction and trauma. The name refers to the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery in a way that makes the repaired lines visible rather than disguising them.
De Georgiou has also participated in public advocacy for Epstein survivors, including demands for document transparency and institutional accountability.
The foundation’s reported focus is important because trauma can produce needs that persist long after a criminal proceeding or civil claim concludes. Survivors may require sustained assistance involving mental health, addiction recovery, relationships, employment, housing, and personal safety.
Publicly accessible information about the Kintsugi Foundation’s eligibility rules, programs, geographic reach, referral process, and current service availability remains limited. USC Annenberg Media has documented De Georgiou’s creation of the foundation and its stated mission.
The foundation should not be represented as offering a particular treatment or financial service unless that service is confirmed directly.
The Jane Doe Foundation
The Jane Doe Foundation is an Ohio nonprofit founded by Wendy Pesante, who publicly identifies herself as an Epstein survivor.
The organization describes itself as survivor led and focused on trauma recovery, prevention, education, advocacy, mentoring, and community resource navigation.
Its programs address a wider range of experiences than the Epstein case, including:
- Childhood abuse.
- Sexual abuse.
- Human trafficking and exploitation.
- Domestic violence.
- Addiction recovery.
- Mental health challenges.
- Incarceration and reentry.
- Family wellness.
- Personal development.
- Abuse prevention.
The foundation states that it does not provide therapy, treatment, or direct cash assistance. It instead offers education, mentorship, advocacy, and connections to local providers and government programs.
This limitation matters. Resource navigation can be valuable, but it is different from receiving clinical care, emergency housing, or financial aid.
The foundation has also published material addressing public misconceptions about Epstein survivors. That work contributes to a broader effort to challenge victim blaming and the tendency to treat every survivor’s experience as identical.
The name should not be confused with Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts coalition against sexual assault and domestic violence, or with unrelated organizations using the common legal term Jane Doe.
World Without Exploitation
World Without Exploitation is a national coalition working to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
It was not founded specifically by Epstein survivors. However, it has played a major role in bringing survivors together, amplifying their voices, organizing public events, and supporting demands for transparency.
The coalition includes more than 175 member organizations. Its work addresses public attitudes, law, media representation, prevention, and survivor leadership.
World Without Exploitation has supported Epstein survivors through:
- Public service announcements.
- Survivor gatherings.
- Legislative advocacy.
- Petitions seeking release of government records.
- Media coordination.
- Public education about trafficking and exploitation.
- Coalition building among survivors and advocacy organizations.
The organization helped create opportunities for survivors who had previously worked separately to meet, coordinate, and speak collectively.
That collective action is significant. Powerful institutions can more easily dismiss an isolated person than a coordinated group of survivors supported by lawyers, advocates, researchers, and established organizations.
World Without Exploitation is primarily an advocacy coalition. A person seeking emergency shelter, therapy, or individual case management should use the direct service resources listed by the coalition or contact a specialized provider.
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
The Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, commonly known as CAST, is a Los Angeles based organization serving survivors of human trafficking.
CAST provides survivor services, legal assistance, housing related support, case management, training, policy advocacy, and community education.
In September 2025, CAST issued an explicit statement of solidarity with Epstein survivors. The organization emphasized that survivor support must extend beyond prominent cases and include people whose experiences receive little or no public attention.
CAST’s response highlighted several conditions that can increase vulnerability to trafficking:
- Poverty.
- Housing insecurity.
- Limited employment opportunities.
- Barriers to health care.
- Immigration insecurity.
- Previous abuse.
- Social isolation.
- Institutional disbelief.
CAST was not created by an Epstein survivor, but it represents the kind of established trafficking service organization that survivors may need when seeking help beyond public advocacy.
The Survivors Trust
The Survivors Trust is a United Kingdom and Ireland umbrella organization for agencies supporting people affected by rape, sexual violence, and childhood sexual abuse.
It does not operate solely for Epstein survivors. Its value lies in connecting survivors with specialist member organizations and promoting standards for survivor support.
In a 2026 statement concerning the Epstein files, the organization acknowledged the distress that renewed reporting and document releases can cause. It reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that survivors have access to appropriate services.
Its principal functions include:
- Providing a collective voice for specialist organizations.
- Connecting survivors with member agencies.
- Educating the public about sexual violence and its effects.
- Supporting professional development.
- Promoting survivor informed responses.
- Campaigning for better institutional treatment of survivors.
The Survivors Trust is useful for locating services in the United Kingdom and Ireland, but the specific assistance available depends on the individual member organization.
National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women has publicly expressed support for Epstein survivors and their demands for accountability.
NOW’s role is primarily advocacy. It campaigns on women’s rights, sexual violence, equality, and institutional reform.
Its public statements can help counter victim blaming and place survivor demands within a wider civil rights framework. However, NOW is not ordinarily the first point of contact for crisis counseling, shelter, forensic care, or individualized legal representation.
Its support should therefore be classified as public and political advocacy rather than direct survivor treatment.
End Violence Against Women Coalition
The End Violence Against Women Coalition is a United Kingdom coalition working to end violence against women and girls.
The coalition issued a statement of solidarity with survivors during renewed public attention to the Epstein records.
Its work includes policy advocacy, public education, research, and efforts to improve institutional responses to sexual violence.
Like NOW, the coalition is important for systemic advocacy but should not be mistaken for an emergency service or individual therapy provider.
Me Too International
Me Too International was founded by survivor activist Tarana Burke.
It was not created by an Epstein survivor, but the movement transformed the environment in which many Epstein survivors spoke publicly. It helped establish a shared language for discussing sexual violence, abuse of power, institutional protection, and survivor solidarity.
The movement’s relevance includes:
- Supporting survivor voice and collective action.
- Challenging shame and isolation.
- Educating communities about sexual violence.
- Campaigning for institutional change.
- Connecting sexual abuse to wider structures of power.
Me Too International is principally a movement and advocacy organization. It is not a replacement for a local rape crisis center, therapist, or attorney.
The Voices and Faces Project
The Voices and Faces Project is a survivor storytelling and advocacy organization.
It helps survivors use personal narratives for education, cultural change, and policy advocacy. It has worked alongside anti exploitation coalitions, including World Without Exploitation.
Storytelling can help survivors reclaim control over experiences that were hidden, distorted, or used against them. It can also expose a survivor to renewed public attention.
Participation in public storytelling should therefore be voluntary, informed, and subject to clear consent regarding publication, editing, photographs, recordings, and future reuse.
SafeBAE
SafeBAE is a survivor founded organization focused on preventing sexual violence among young people.
Its work includes education, peer leadership, consent, prevention, and support for young survivors.
SafeBAE publicly honored Virginia Giuffre and connected her advocacy to the wider need to treat sexual violence as a serious public health problem.
The organization does not exist specifically for Epstein survivors, but its youth centered prevention work addresses conditions that allowed recruiters and offenders to exploit teenagers.
GEMS
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, commonly known as GEMS, was founded by Rachel Lloyd, a survivor of commercial sexual exploitation.
GEMS serves girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. Its model emphasizes the progression from victim to survivor to leader.
Its services include:
- Crisis care.
- Holistic case management.
- Educational support.
- Youth development.
- Transitional and supportive housing.
- Court advocacy.
- Survivor leadership.
- Training for service providers.
GEMS is not an Epstein specific organization. It is nevertheless highly relevant because Epstein and Maxwell used grooming, money, recruitment through peers, and promises of opportunity to exploit young women and girls.
The organization demonstrates what sustained, survivor informed intervention can look like after exploitation.
My Life My Choice
My Life My Choice is a survivor led program focused on ending the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Its Survivor Mentor Model pairs trained adult survivors with young people who have experienced exploitation or face a high risk of exploitation.
Programs include:
- Long term survivor mentoring.
- Prevention education.
- Professional training.
- Survivor leadership.
- Policy advocacy.
- Emergency assistance in eligible cases.
- Community education.
The organization is not limited to the Epstein case. Its methods are relevant to the recruitment pattern documented in Palm Beach, where teenage girls were encouraged to bring other girls to Epstein’s home.
Survivor mentoring can reduce isolation and help young people work with someone who understands grooming and exploitation from lived experience.
EVA Center
The EVA Center is a Boston based survivor led organization serving women affected by commercial sexual exploitation.
Its work includes relationship based mentoring, assistance with exit planning, housing support, emergency help, health care navigation, and long term survivor support.
The organization emphasizes that leaving exploitation is usually a process rather than a single event. Survivors may face financial dependence, housing instability, trauma, criminal records, addiction, family separation, and continuing contact with exploiters.
The EVA Center was one of four organizations selected to receive funds when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology redirected an amount equal to Epstein’s donations.
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center provides support to people affected by sexual violence.
Its services include crisis counseling, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, support groups, and assistance for family members and loved ones.
The organization was founded through survivor and community activism. It serves the wider public rather than Epstein survivors alone.
BARCC was also selected to receive part of the money that MIT redirected after reviewing Epstein’s donations to the institution.
Organizations Funded Through MIT’s Redirection of Epstein Money
In 2020, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that it would distribute $850,000 among four organizations supporting survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation. The amount equaled the donations MIT determined it had received from Epstein between 2002 and 2017.
The four organizations were:
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
- EVA Center.
- My Life My Choice.
- The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts Domestic and Sexual Violence Project.
MIT’s announcement described services including crisis support, survivor mentoring, housing assistance, violence prevention, safety planning, and economic support.
The distribution did not mean that the organizations were created specifically for Epstein survivors. It represented an institutional decision to redirect an equivalent amount toward organizations working with people affected by sexual abuse and exploitation.
Such donations do not erase the original institutional decision to accept Epstein’s money. They can nevertheless supply resources to organizations performing relevant survivor services.
Safe Horizon
Safe Horizon is a large New York victim assistance organization.
Its Anti Trafficking Program provides legal and social services to trafficking survivors across ages, genders, immigration statuses, and languages.
Available forms of assistance include:
- Case management.
- Legal services.
- Immigration assistance.
- Housing referrals.
- Counseling referrals.
- Health care connections.
- Benefits navigation.
- Employment and education referrals.
- Support during court proceedings.
- Safety planning.
Safe Horizon is particularly relevant because Epstein maintained a residence in Manhattan and abused girls and young women in New York.
Its general hotline can be reached at 800 621 HOPE, or 800 621 4673.
Service eligibility and geographic limits should be confirmed directly with the organization.
RAINN
RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline in partnership with local sexual assault service providers.
RAINN offers confidential crisis support, information, and referrals. Its hotline can help survivors locate counseling, medical assistance, legal resources, and local rape crisis services.
RAINN does not investigate allegations, determine whether a crime occurred, or represent survivors in court.
Its national reach makes it useful for Epstein survivors and other survivors who do not know which local organization to contact first.
National Human Trafficking Hotline
The National Human Trafficking Hotline connects survivors of sex and labor trafficking with services and referrals.
The hotline maintains a national referral directory containing organizations that provide emergency, transitional, and long term assistance.
A survivor can contact the hotline without being certain whether her experience meets a legal definition of trafficking. Hotline advocates can discuss options and local resources.
The hotline is not a law enforcement agency. Survivors should review its confidentiality policy and ask how information will be handled before sharing identifying details.
VictimConnect Resource Center
The VictimConnect Resource Center assists people affected by crime.
Its specialists can help survivors:
- Identify local services.
- Understand possible rights.
- Locate counseling and advocacy.
- Find crime victim compensation information.
- Consider safety needs.
- Locate specialized legal resources.
VictimConnect does not replace an attorney or guarantee financial compensation. It can provide a starting point for survivors who are unsure which system or organization applies to them.
National Center for Victims of Crime
The National Center for Victims of Crime supports crime victims through advocacy, education, referrals, and professional resources.
Its National Crime Victim Bar Association helps connect victims with attorneys who handle crime related civil claims.
An attorney referral is not the same as free representation. Survivors should ask about fees, contingency agreements, litigation costs, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and deadlines before retaining counsel.
Palm Beach County Victim Services
Palm Beach County Victim Services and Certified Rape Crisis Center serves survivors of sexual assault in Palm Beach County.
Its relevance to the Epstein case is direct. Epstein’s Palm Beach residence was a central location for recruitment and abuse, and many survivors first encountered him while they were teenagers living or working in the area.
The center provides free and confidential services, including crisis intervention, advocacy, and support connected with sexual assault.
Its round the clock helpline is 866 891 7273.
The center also operates services associated with the Butterfly House Sexual Assault Response Team facility.
A survivor does not need to participate in a public campaign or speak to the media to seek help from a rape crisis center.
Virgin Islands Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Council
The Virgin Islands Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Council is the territorial coalition addressing domestic violence and sexual assault in the United States Virgin Islands.
The council supports local organizations, public education, prevention, professional development, and coordinated responses.
Its St. Croix office can be contacted at 340 719 0144. Its St. Thomas and St. John office can be contacted at 340 774 0144.
The council is relevant because Epstein owned Little St. James and Great St. James and maintained a residence on St. Thomas. Survivors, witnesses, and local residents may require services that understand Virgin Islands law, geography, and community institutions.
The council is not the same entity as the government of the Virgin Islands or the territorial attorney general’s office.
Women’s Coalition of St. Croix
The Women’s Coalition of St. Croix supports people affected by sexual violence, domestic violence, stalking, dating violence, child sexual abuse, and sex trafficking.
Its services include crisis intervention, confidential counseling, emergency shelter, transitional housing, advocacy, and survivor support.
Its crisis number is 340 773 9272.
Although Epstein’s best known Virgin Islands properties were near St. Thomas, survivors and families across the territory may need services on St. Croix.
The organization is a local service provider rather than an Epstein specific advocacy group.
Family Resource Center in St. Thomas
The Family Resource Center serves victims of crime in St. Thomas and St. John.
Public service directories describe its assistance as including crisis intervention, emergency shelter, counseling, case management, court advocacy, safety planning, and referrals.
Its crisis line is 340 776 7867.
The organization’s location makes it particularly relevant to survivors or witnesses connected with events on St. Thomas or the nearby islands.
As with every shelter or local provider, availability, eligibility, confidentiality practices, and transportation needs should be discussed directly with an advocate.
Legal Services of the Virgin Islands
Legal Services of the Virgin Islands provides civil legal assistance to eligible residents of the territory.
Potential areas of assistance may include protective orders, housing, family law, public benefits, and other civil matters affecting survivor safety.
It is not a substitute for specialized counsel handling a major trafficking lawsuit or a claim against the Epstein estate. However, civil legal aid can be essential when a survivor faces housing loss, family instability, debt, or another immediate legal problem.
The Virgin Islands Law Enforcement Planning Commission resource directory also lists local victim services, compensation resources, legal assistance, medical institutions, and government contacts.
Support in the United Kingdom
Epstein survivors and witnesses have lived in several countries, and some allegations concern events in the United Kingdom.
Relevant British resources include:
- The Survivors Trust, which connects survivors with specialist member organizations.
- Rape Crisis England and Wales, which provides information and access to specialist sexual violence services.
- NAPAC, the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, which supports adults who experienced childhood abuse.
- Samaritans, which provides emotional support to people experiencing distress.
These organizations do not investigate Epstein related allegations. Their role is survivor support, information, referral, and advocacy.
Support in Australia
Virginia Giuffre lived in Australia, and other survivors or family members may also require Australian services.
Relevant resources include:
- 1800RESPECT, which provides support concerning domestic, family, and sexual violence. It can be reached at 1800 737 732.
- Blue Knot Foundation, which supports adults affected by complex trauma and childhood abuse.
- Lifeline Australia, which provides crisis support at 13 11 14.
These are general national resources rather than organizations created specifically for Epstein survivors.
Support Groups and Peer Networks
Peer support can reduce the isolation created by sexual abuse and trafficking.
Epstein survivors have demonstrated the importance of connecting with people who understand the same offender, locations, employees, recruitment system, lawyers, and public controversy.
Peer support can provide:
- Emotional validation.
- Practical knowledge about legal and media processes.
- Help identifying shared patterns.
- Support during trials and document releases.
- Protection against isolation.
- Collective advocacy.
Peer networks can also create risks. Members may unintentionally affect one another’s memories, share confidential evidence, expose survivor identities, or create disputes about who belongs in a group.
Responsible peer support should respect privacy, individual differences, and the possibility that survivors may remember events differently.
No survivor should be required to join a public group or disclose her identity to receive support.
Media and Public Advocacy Support
Epstein survivors often confronted intense media attention.
Organizations such as Survivor Sisters, SOAR, World Without Exploitation, Me Too International, and the Voices and Faces Project can help survivors participate in public advocacy.
Media assistance may include:
- Preparing for interviews.
- Understanding whether an interview will be live or edited.
- Reviewing consent for photographs and recordings.
- Protecting private identifying information.
- Coordinating public statements.
- Responding to harassment or misinformation.
- Connecting individual testimony to policy reform.
Media exposure is not therapy. It can produce renewed trauma, hostile attention, misquotation, and permanent online records.
A responsible organization should never pressure a survivor to disclose more than she wants to disclose.
Independent Researchers and Sleuth Organizations
Independent researchers have helped locate documents, map relationships, preserve timelines, and identify leads concerning Epstein and Maxwell.
Resources such as Epstein Data, survivor created timelines, investigative Substacks, document repositories, and independent sleuth reports can help survivors and advocates understand a large and fragmented public record.
These researchers may perform valuable work, but they are not automatically victim service organizations.
An independent researcher should not be treated as a therapist, attorney, law enforcement officer, or official custodian of confidential evidence.
Responsible sleuth work should:
- Center survivors rather than sensational personalities.
- Protect redacted and private identities.
- Distinguish evidence from inference.
- Link claims to primary documents.
- Correct errors publicly.
- Avoid contacting survivors repeatedly or aggressively.
- Obtain consent before publishing private communications.
- Avoid presenting every named person as an offender.
- Distinguish an organization’s stated mission from verified services.
- Direct people in crisis toward qualified providers.
Sleuth reports and Substack investigations can be useful leads. Their conclusions should be checked against court records, government documents, corporate filings, and direct organizational sources.
Attorneys and Survivor Representation
Lawyers have played an essential role in helping Epstein survivors pursue compensation, challenge secrecy, respond to subpoenas, protect identities, and participate in criminal proceedings.
A law firm is not ordinarily a survivor support charity. Its responsibilities arise from an attorney client relationship with particular clients.
Before hiring an attorney, a survivor should understand:
- Who the attorney represents.
- Whether there are conflicts among multiple survivors.
- How fees and costs will be calculated.
- Who controls settlement decisions.
- How confidential information will be stored.
- Whether media work is included.
- What deadlines may apply.
- Whether the attorney has experience with trafficking, sexual abuse, estates, or institutional liability.
Organizations such as the National Crime Victim Bar Association can help survivors locate attorneys, but a referral does not guarantee representation or a successful claim.
The Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program
The Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program was a claims process funded by Epstein’s estate and administered independently by Jordana Feldman.
The program began accepting claims in 2020 and concluded in 2021. It received approximately 225 claims. About 150 applicants were found eligible, and more than 92 percent of those eligible accepted compensation offers.
The program distributed more than $121 million.
The program allowed survivors to seek compensation without filing a public lawsuit or undergoing conventional litigation. Claimants who accepted an award were required to release claims against the estate and related covered parties.
The program was not a charity, therapy service, or permanent survivor organization. It was a limited compensation mechanism, and it is closed.
It should not appear in a current resource directory as though new claims can still be filed through the original program.
Civil Settlements and Class Actions
Survivors have also obtained compensation through civil lawsuits and settlements involving Epstein’s estate, financial institutions, and other defendants.
Major proceedings included:
- Claims against the Epstein estate.
- Jane Doe v. JPMorgan Chase.
- Jane Doe v. Deutsche Bank.
- Litigation involving the government of the United States Virgin Islands.
- Individual claims against people accused of participating in or facilitating abuse.
A settlement fund is not a survivor support organization. It exists to resolve specified legal claims under particular eligibility and release rules.
Receiving compensation does not eliminate trauma or provide continuing emotional, medical, or practical support.
A settlement also does not necessarily constitute an admission of liability by the defendant.
Government Crime Victim Compensation
State and territorial crime victim compensation programs may reimburse certain expenses connected with violent crime.
Depending on the jurisdiction and applicable rules, covered costs may include:
- Counseling.
- Medical treatment.
- Lost wages.
- Funeral expenses.
- Relocation.
- Transportation.
- Crime scene cleanup.
- Other safety related costs.
Eligibility rules, filing deadlines, cooperation requirements, and available benefits vary.
The federal Office for Victims of Crime provides information about victim services and compensation programs. The United States Virgin Islands also operates a Criminal Victims Compensation Commission.
These government programs are separate from the Epstein estate compensation process.
What Survivors May Need Beyond Litigation
Litigation can produce evidence, compensation, and accountability, but it does not supply every form of recovery.
Survivors may require:
- Long term trauma therapy.
- Medical care.
- Addiction treatment.
- Stable housing.
- Education and job training.
- Financial planning.
- Family support.
- Protection from harassment.
- Assistance correcting public misinformation.
- Peer relationships.
- Immigration advice.
- Help obtaining records.
- Support during anniversaries, trials, and document releases.
- Control over public use of their name and story.
- Opportunities to participate in reform without being retraumatized.
Organizations are most effective when these needs are treated as interconnected rather than isolated problems.
How to Evaluate a Survivor Organization
Before seeking services, volunteering, or donating, a person should examine what an organization actually provides.
Important questions include:
- Is the organization currently active?
- Is it registered as a nonprofit, informal advocacy group, or commercial entity?
- Is it founded or led by survivors?
- Does it provide direct services or only advocacy?
- Are counselors and clinicians appropriately licensed?
- Does it provide legal advice, attorney referrals, or neither?
- Does it offer emergency assistance?
- Are services free?
- What geographic or age restrictions apply?
- How does it protect survivor privacy?
- Does it publish survivor stories only with consent?
- Does it explain how donations are used?
- Does it have a board, financial reports, and clear contact information?
- Does it distinguish verified evidence from allegations?
- Does it avoid pressuring survivors into publicity?
An organization can perform valuable advocacy without providing clinical services. The key is accurate description and transparency.
Survivor Privacy and Consent
Organizations working with Epstein survivors must account for extraordinary privacy risks.
The public record includes deposition testimony, medical information, photographs, contact information, interview summaries, and allegations involving people who were minors when the events occurred.
A survivor centered organization should allow each survivor to decide:
- Whether to use her name.
- Whether to appear in photographs.
- Whether to speak publicly.
- Whether to participate in litigation or advocacy.
- Which details can be published.
- Whether testimony may be reused.
- Whether contact information may be shared.
- Whether journalists or researchers may approach her.
A survivor’s decision to remain anonymous does not make her experience less important. A decision to speak publicly does not remove her right to boundaries.
What the Evidence Establishes
The available record establishes that:
- Several organizations have been created by Epstein survivors.
- Virginia Roberts Giuffre founded SOAR.
- Survivor Sisters was created collectively by women abused within the Epstein and Maxwell network.
- The Survivors, Inc. was founded by survivors and members of their legal team.
- Jennifer Araoz created the Survivors Initiative.
- Anouska De Georgiou founded the Kintsugi Foundation.
- Wendy Pesante founded The Jane Doe Foundation.
- These organizations perform different combinations of advocacy, education, peer support, mentoring, and resource navigation.
- World Without Exploitation has helped organize and amplify Epstein survivors.
- CAST and other trafficking organizations have publicly supported Epstein survivors.
- RAINN, Safe Horizon, and local rape crisis centers provide services that Epstein survivors may use.
- Palm Beach County and the United States Virgin Islands have local organizations relevant to communities where Epstein operated.
- Survivor founded organizations such as GEMS and the EVA Center serve the wider population of trafficking survivors.
- MIT redirected an amount equal to Epstein’s donations toward four organizations serving survivors of abuse and exploitation.
- The Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program distributed more than $121 million before closing.
- Compensation programs and civil settlements are not permanent survivor support organizations.
- Independent researchers and sleuth publications can support documentation but are not substitutes for professional care.
What the Evidence Does Not Establish
The available record does not establish that:
- Every organization mentioned provides direct services to Epstein survivors.
- Every advocacy campaign offers counseling, housing, or financial assistance.
- Every survivor belongs to Survivor Sisters or another public group.
- Every Epstein survivor wants to speak publicly.
- Every organization founded by a survivor is automatically trauma informed.
- Nonprofit status guarantees effective programs.
- A public statement of solidarity creates an individual service relationship.
- An attorney referral guarantees representation.
- A hotline report automatically creates a criminal investigation.
- Compensation replaces long term survivor care.
- A civil settlement proves every allegation.
- A donation remedies an institution’s earlier relationship with Epstein.
- Every independent researcher follows professional privacy standards.
- Every organization that once announced programs remains active.
- One model of healing is appropriate for every survivor.
Investigative Assessment
The organizations created by Epstein survivors represent one of the most significant developments to emerge from the public history of the case.
For many years, Epstein survivors appeared as isolated witnesses in police reports, lawsuits, newspaper stories, and sealed court records. Survivor founded organizations changed that structure by giving survivors collective platforms, institutional identities, and opportunities to define their own priorities.
SOAR preserves Virginia Giuffre’s broader vision of healing, advocacy, and reform. Survivor Sisters creates a collective historical and advocacy record. The Survivors, Inc. concentrates on practical resource navigation and rebuilding. The Survivors Initiative, Kintsugi Foundation, and Jane Doe Foundation show how individual survivors have transformed their experiences into projects intended to help others.
These organizations should not be treated as interchangeable. Some are mature nonprofits with defined services. Others are advocacy platforms, developing projects, or historically documented initiatives whose current activity requires verification.
The wider support network remains essential. Rape crisis centers, trafficking programs, legal aid organizations, survivor mentors, therapists, compensation systems, and local service providers perform work that public advocacy groups may not be equipped to provide.
The strongest survivor support system combines lived experience with professional care, financial transparency, privacy protection, institutional accountability, and respect for each survivor’s choices.
Key Takeaways
- Several major survivor organizations were created by Epstein survivors themselves.
- SOAR was founded by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
- Survivor Sisters was created collectively by women abused within the Epstein and Maxwell network.
- The Survivors, Inc. provides practical resource navigation and survivor support.
- Jennifer Araoz created the Survivors Initiative.
- Anouska De Georgiou founded the Kintsugi Foundation.
- Wendy Pesante founded The Jane Doe Foundation.
- World Without Exploitation has helped Epstein survivors organize collectively and advocate for transparency.
- CAST, NOW, The Survivors Trust, and other organizations have issued public support for survivors.
- RAINN and the National Human Trafficking Hotline provide confidential national support.
- Safe Horizon offers trafficking related legal and social services in New York.
- Palm Beach County operates a certified rape crisis center in the community where many survivors were recruited.
- The Virgin Islands has local sexual assault, trafficking, and crime victim organizations.
- GEMS, My Life My Choice, and the EVA Center are survivor informed organizations serving the wider trafficking survivor community.
- The Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program is closed and should not be presented as a current service.
- Advocacy, therapy, legal representation, housing, and financial compensation are different forms of assistance.
- Independent sleuth research can aid documentation but must be checked against primary evidence.
- Survivor privacy, consent, and control over personal testimony must remain central.
Related EpsteinWiki Articles
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Ghislaine Maxwell
- Virginia Roberts Giuffre
- Witness Statements and Depositions Litigation
- Giuffre v. Maxwell
- Giuffre v. Prince Andrew
- United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell
- Jane Doe v. JPMorgan Chase
- Jane Doe v. Deutsche Bank
- Territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands v. Epstein Estate
- How to Read an Epstein Document
- Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program
Epstein Survivor Founded Organizations
- SOAR, Speak Out, Act, Reclaim
- SOAR mission and founder page
- Survivor Sisters
- About Survivor Sisters
- Survivor Sisters timeline
- The Survivors, Inc.
- The Jane Doe Foundation
- The Jane Doe Foundation leadership
- Reporting on Jennifer Araoz and the Survivors Initiative
- Reporting on Anouska De Georgiou and the Kintsugi Foundation
Direct Service and Advocacy Organizations
- World Without Exploitation
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
- CAST statement supporting Epstein survivors
- The Survivors Trust
- The Survivors Trust statement on the Epstein files
- National Organization for Women
- End Violence Against Women Coalition
- Me Too International
- The Voices and Faces Project
- SafeBAE
- GEMS
- My Life My Choice
- EVA Center
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
- Safe Horizon
- Safe Horizon exploitation services
- RAINN
- National Human Trafficking Hotline
- VictimConnect Resource Center
- National Center for Victims of Crime
Local and Government Resources
- Palm Beach County Victim Services
- Palm Beach County sexual assault services
- Virgin Islands Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Council
- Women’s Coalition of St. Croix
- Family Resource Center
- Legal Services of the Virgin Islands
- Virgin Islands victim resource directory
- Office for Victims of Crime
- Justice Department resources for victims and survivors
- MIT distribution to four survivor organizations
Primary Court and Evidence Sources
- Giuffre v. Maxwell federal docket
- United States v. Maxwell federal docket
- Official United States v. Maxwell case page
- Jane Doe v. JPMorgan Chase federal docket
- Jane Doe v. Deutsche Bank federal docket
- United States Department of Justice Epstein Library
- Epstein Data congressional deposition archive
Court records and Epstein Data documents establish survivor testimony, allegations, litigation history, and institutional responses. They do not verify the present operating status of a nonprofit. Current services should be confirmed through the organization itself.