RAINN’s Technology Access Project: Offering Free Website & Email Services to Affiliates

Sorted under sexual assault, violence against women on March 22, 2009

RAINN Most of us have relied on the internet for valid, educational information. A lot of us have relied on the friends and support systems we have cultivated online to help sort out our feelings, opinions, and problems in our day to day lives. We undoubtedly live in a society where a great amount of people have become reliant on technology but there are still needs to be met when it comes to the information and support many of us need via the internet world, especially those of us who have survived or are still surviving abuse and trauma. RAINN is the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization that has aided so many survivors in need of support and advocates of survivors in need of information. RAINN has not only helped people through their 1-800 hotline, but because they understand the reliance we have on technology and the fact that more survivors are willing to open up via the internet, where they can remain completely anonymous, they opened up a 24/7 online hotline.

In an effort to bring more technology-based support to survivors, they are ensuring that all of their affiliates across the country have the ability to have a web presence of their own for the survivors in need in their areas. Because the vast amount of companies, organizations, and people who use the internet do not have the knowledge necessary to create a clean, functional, and user-friendly web presence of their own, RAINN has started the Technology Access Project that will offer all of RAINN’s participating affiliates a free website and free email services to help aid and support their base of survivors, as well as to educate those in their areas about abuse and trauma, and also how to heal, starting in Spring of 2009. The Technology Access Project is made possible by Grant no. 2008-TA-AX-K012, awarded to RAINN by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice.

This is a monumental step forward for survivors in need of RAINN and their affiliate’s support and services. Because they are offering websites and email services for free, they are ensuring that every single participating affiliate of theirs has the ability to create a web presence without any financial burden or even technical experience. RAINN’s technical staff will be available for any affiliate who is lacking in technical experience to walk them through the brief setup process and they will also be available to answer technical questions for as long as they are using the service. Best of all, your domain name will not be owned by RAINN; ownership will be retained by the affiliate even if they decide to stop using RAINN’s service.

I am thrilled that RAINN has decided to do this and that the Office on Violence Against Women saw a need for technological support and filled it, making RAINN’s Technology Access Project possible.



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  • This is an excellent step forward! Good news!
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