Resources
Get help. Right now if you need it.
Ruin the Party is educational. It is not a replacement for emergency services, law enforcement, medical care or professional crisis support. The people below are.
If someone is hurt, in danger, or cannot be woken up: call 911.
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Emergency
Someone is hurt, unconscious, in danger, or cannot be woken up.
- Call
- 911
National Sexual Assault Hotline
Run by RAINN. Free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish. For survivors and for the people trying to help one.
- Call
- 800-656-4673
- Chat
- online.rainn.org
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Free, confidential, 24/7. You do not have to be suicidal to call.
- Call or text
- 988
Crisis Text Line
Text with a trained crisis counselor. Free, 24/7.
- Text
- HOME to 741741
love is respect
For ages 14 to 24, about dating and relationships. A program of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. 24/7.
- Call
- 866-331-9474
- Text
- LOVEIS to 22522
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Free, confidential, 24/7, in over 200 languages.
- Call
- 800-799-7233
- Text
- START to 88788
- Chat
- thehotline.org
Organizations already doing this work
Ruin the Party is a phrase and a push. These are the people with programs, training and twenty years of evidence. Use them.
College students and campus chapters
It's On Us
The largest nonprofit program for college sexual assault prevention, with student-led chapters on more than 500 campuses teaching consent, bystander intervention and survivor support. Started in 2014 out of the White House task force on campus sexual assault.
itsonus.orgCoaches and athletic programs
Coaching Boys Into Men
A program from Futures Without Violence: twelve fifteen-minute talks a coach has with his team over a season about respect, relationships and stepping in. Evaluated in a CDC-funded study and recommended by the CDC. Coaches get a free card series.
coachescorner.orgSchools, colleges and communities
Green Dot
The bystander program that gave everyone the three ways to step in: do it yourself, get somebody else, or break the moment. Run by Alteristic.
alteristic.orgAnyone raising, coaching or leading boys
A Call to Men
Training and material on healthy, respectful manhood. They coined the Man Box, the set of rules boys are handed about what a man is allowed to be, and they have worked with the NFL, the NBA, MLB and the military.
acalltomen.orgYouth programs and trainers
MCSR (Men Can Stop Rape)
Since 1997, programs for young men built around healthy masculinity and the idea that strength is for protecting people.
mcsr.orgEveryone
RAINN
The nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization. Plain explanations of consent, the law state by state, and what to do after an assault.
rainn.org
Numbers and addresses on this page were read from each organization’s own site on October 1, 2026. If one has changed, tell us and we will fix it the same day.
