How can we support you?
Get additional support from organizations that provide emotional and legal support, counseling, and help for union members in our community.*
*This information does not constitute legal advice. Please consult with an attorney if you have questions or think your rights as a worker have been violated.Emotional Support & Survivor’s Services
Your employer may offer a worker Assistance Plan (EAP) to connect you to resources. You can request the contact information for the EAP from Human Resources without sharing the reason for your request.
If you have health insurance, your insurer can connect you to resources covered by your insurance.
Echo provides parenting classes, workshops, and training that draws from the latest scientific research on trauma, emotional regulation techniques, and nonviolent communication to empower survivors and educate those who support them.
Contact: 213-484-6676
Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund)
The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund) offers a broad spectrum of programs, a calendar of workshops, support groups, online resources, and emergency financial assistance to support the unique, essential needs of all who work in performing arts and entertainment.
Additionally, the Entertainment Community Fund provides free and confidential help for those who have experienced sexual harassment, including short-term one-on-one counseling, referrals for helpful resources, and assistance in locating legal services.
Peace Over Violence (Los Angeles)
Peace Over Violence operates the LA Rape and Battery Hotline, a confidential, non-judgmental resource where staff and volunteers can provide emotional support, advocacy, information, and referrals. If you or someone you care about is a victim of sexual assault, domestic violence, or intimate partner stalking, you can call its 24-hour crisis line.
Contact:
Central Los Angeles: 213-626-3393
South Los Angeles: 310-392-8381
West San Gabriel Valley: 626-793-3385
Survivor's Sanctuary is a self-guided online platform created by metoo. International to aid survivors in their healing journeys. Survivor's Sanctuary takes an integrative approach to engage mind and body, to help survivors address the adverse effects of trauma and move toward healing. The platform features guided meditations, affirmations, somatic practices, playlists, journaling, and other activities to support healing.
Based in the U.K., TIME’S UP UK works to highlight the connections between the harassment revelations in Hollywood and the wider, systematic nature of harassment and violence against women across all industries, contexts, and countries with the recognition that this issue is universal.
Click here to view a curated list of support services created by TIME’S UP UK, including short and long-term emotional support, advocacy, and counseling services available in the UK.
Voices in Action is a nonprofit organization that combines educational programming, mentorship, and support with innovative matching technology to prevent abuse and improve workplace safety standards within the cultural arts.
They do this by tracking serial perpetrators; connecting industry workers who experienced workplace sexual abuse to no-cost, trauma-informed legal consultation; and by providing holistic support services and resources to survivors.
Helplines
If you are in immediate danger, call 911.
If you are not at risk of physical harm, notify the operator of a psychiatric emergency and ask for police officers trained in crisis intervention.
A wide range of information, services, and a 24/7 online helpline for men who experienced sexual abuse.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – Dial or text 988
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide or experiencing a mental health crisis a crisis counselor will help you to safely identify options and information about mental health services in your area.
Crisis Text Line – Text HOME to 741-741
Connect with a trained crisis counselor via text message.
Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund)
Free, confidential help including short-term one-on-one counseling, referrals for helpful resources, and assistance locating legal services for those who have experienced sexual harassment.
National Domestic Violence Hotline – Call 800-799-SAFE (7233)
Confidential support to anyone experiencing domestic violence or seeking resources and information. Help is available in languages including Spanish.
National Sexual Assault Hotline – Call 800-656-HOPE (4673).
Crisis chat support is available at Online Hotline. Connect with a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in your area.
The Entertainment Industry Helpline - Call 855-943-5463
The Hollywood Commission offers a nationwide, non-crisis helpline to help entertainment workers address workplace harassment, discrimination, bullying, and other forms of abuse. If you see or experience something in the workplace that feels wrong, you can call the helpline to get support and learn about your options.
The Trevor Project – Call 866-488-7386 or Text START to 678-678.
Crisis chat support is available at Crisis Chat.Supporting LGBTQ young people during times of crisis by providing access to crisis counselors 24/7, 365 days a year.
Support for Union Members
If you are a union or guild member and believe your employer has not met its obligations, your union or guild can help.
If someone has sexually harassed you in the workplace, or to discuss a situation, please call:
Mayra Ocampo, Assistant Executive Director: (310) 289-2006 or mocampo@dga.org
After business hours DGA Safety Hotline: (800) 342-3457
24/7 Safety Hotline: (844) 422-9273 (844-IA-AWARE)
For any urgent matters concerning sexual harassment: 855-SAG-AFTRA (855 724 2387) and press 1.
For any other on-set emergency: 844-SAFER-SET (844 723 3773)
Please note that these lines serve SAG-AFTRA members or those who work under a SAG-AFTRA contract.
File a report with SAG-AFTRA here.
Writer’s Guild of America West
To have a confidential discussion with an experienced Guild representative, including if you’d like a representative to accompany you to an HR interview or help you file a complaint with your employer, please contact:
Latifah Salom: (323) 782-4521 or by email at Latifah Salom
Legal Support
If you’re looking for an attorney, you can contact the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund, housed at the National Women’s Law Center.
You may also contact your state's bar association, such as the California Bar Association, the New York Bar Association, or the local bar association, which should provide you with referrals and access to free legal services.
Employment Support
FWD-Doc is a global, intersectional community of disabled creators and allies working in media to build a more inclusive, accessible, and equitable entertainment industry by:
Building community and creative, supportive spaces.
Cultivating and championing disabled media makers and leaders.
Elevating stories by, for, and about people with disabilities.
Educating, partnering, and advocating for more inclusive, equitable, and accessible practices within the entertainment industry, for filmmakers and audiences.
Hire Survivors Hollywood offers consultation services, a survivor talent database, and custom training to assist those in hiring positions with building a safer, more equitable industry by giving a fair chance – auditions, meetings, interviews, opportunities – to survivors.
Founded and led by Sundance Institute and Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF), ReFrame is an initiative that employs a unique strategy: a peer-to-peer approach, in which ReFrame Ambassadors engage with senior industry decision-makers at over 50 Partner Companies to implement ReFrame systemic change programs.
The initiative’s goals are to provide research, support, and a practical framework that can be used by Partner companies to mitigate bias during the creative decision-making and hiring process, celebrate successes, and measure progress toward a more gender-representative industry on all levels.
RespectAbility’s Entertainment Media Consulting Team connects the industry to experts with lived disability experience to advise on all things disability inclusion, equity, and access throughout the overall storytelling process.
By partnering with studios, production companies, writers’ rooms, and independent filmmakers, RespectAbility works to increase authentic off-screen and on-screen disability representation, effecting systemic change in how society views people with disabilities. Services include script reviews; set accessibility site visits and writers’ room visits; accessible casting advertisement; cast, crew, and writer recommendations; etc.
The Transgender Film Center is a nonprofit advancing the work of transgender film creators by providing start-up and finishing funds to bring more trans-made stories to audiences around the world.