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Incest Survivors Additional Brochures New Mexico Sexual Abuse Program Coordinators (continued) The following is a list of mental health agencies with counselors trained to help survivors of sexual abuse. You Portales Shiprock The following brochures about sexual abuse are also availablemay decidefrom you want to talk with someone over the phone Mental Health Resource Home for Women & Children, INCEST before you can go in to see them. You may want to join a 359-1221 • 1-800-432-2159 crisis Rape Crisis Service the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Inc.: Parent Empowerment Raton 368-5124 group for incest survivors. Either way, find a therapist who Silver City Taos/Colfax Comm. Services á 'Safe, Strong and Free', for young children (Spanish believesand your feelings and memories. Give yourself the 445-2754 El Refugio, Rape Crisis Svcs. time and compassion. You will need both. A Guide to Helping Your Child Rio Rancho 538-2125 English) URVIVORS Border Area Mental Hlth. Ctr. S Rio Rancho Family Health Center 388-4412 ‘No matter what is true of your past, the world is in need of your bestin the Aftermath of Sexual Abuse 896-0928 • 1-888-920-6333 crisis á Roswell 1-800-426-0997 crisis 'Top 10 Questions for Kids'. for mid-school aged childrencontrib utions. You can only give your best by becoming your best self; Counseling Associates Socorro and this is only possible if you consider yourself deserving of emotional 623-1480 Socorro Mental Health healing.’, (Betty Caponera, Ph.D., Overcoming Painful Past Experiences’) 835-2444 á 'Teens Talk About: Bodies and Feelings' Ruidoso Gail Santilli, C.I.S.W. The Counseling Center Taos 237-5038 • 437-7407 crisis Community Against Violence á 'If You Love Me: Acquaintance Rape', and ‘Carpeting Out New Mexico Sexual Abuse Program Coordinators Flagstaff, Arizona 758-8082 • 758-9888 crisis 1-800-634-3666 crisis Across America: Drug Assisted Rape’, for High School students 1997 San Felipe Taos Mental Health 758-1125 Alamogordo Farmington San Felipe Behavioral Health The Counseling Center Truth or Consequences Presbyterian Med. Svcs. & Family Services á ‘Talking To Your Children About Sex: How to use open 437-7404 Community Counseling S.T.A.R.T. 867-9740 discussions about sex, privacy, respect and values to prevent Albuquerque the 325-0238 • 325-1906 crisis Santa Fe 894-0889 • 894-5475 pager Albuquerque Rape Crisis Center Tucumcari San Juan County Rape Crisis Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center sexual abuse and exploitation of children and teens.’ A 266-7711 booklet 599-6168 Mental Health Resources 988-1951 • 986-9111 or for parents Programs for Children & Gallup 1-800-721-7273 crisis 461-3013 Adolescents 1-800-432-2159 crisis Western NM Counseling Svcs. Santa Rosa 272-2190 • 272-2800 after 5pm 863-3828 Las Vegas Medical Center á 'Incest Survivor', 'Male Victim', 'From Victim to Survivor' Sequoia Adolescent Treatment 1-800-649-0181 crisis Community Based Services (Spanish and English), ‘Rape in Marriage’, ‘Sexual Abuse Center of Grants 472-3768 • 425-1048 crisis 344-4673 Cibola Counseling Services Seniors’, ‘Lesbians and Sexual Assault’, ‘Sexual Abuse of crisis Artesia 287-7985 • 1-800-287-0212 (after hours) New Mexico Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Units Persons with Developmental Disabilities’ and ‘Overcoming Artesia Counseling Center Hobbs Painful Past Experiences’ for adults. 746-9848 • 365-7606 crisis Guidance Center of Lea County Las Cruces Aztec 393-3168 • 393-6633 crisis Alamogordo SANE Daybreak Center 392-0966 for adolescents Otero County SANE Unit 526-3437 crisis 334-3444 • 342-1802 crisis Jemez Pueblo 443-7900 • 443-2156 crisis 1-888-595-7273 Belen Pueblo of Jemez Soc. Services Albuquerque Office: 521-5549 Valencia Counseling Svcs., Inc. 834-7117 Albuquerque SANE Collaborative Portales 864-1909 • 865-3359 LasWHY Cruces THE NEED FOR THIS BROCHURE: 883-8720 • 884-7263, emergency Roosevelt County SANE Bernalillo La Pinon Rape Crisis Center Para Los Ninos, UNM Health 359-1800, ext. 531 Produced by: La Buena Vida • 867-2383 526-3437 Sciences Center Pediatric Sex Roswell Carlsbad 1-888-595-7273 crisis Abuse Exams New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Inc. This brochure is intended to supply you with detailed information Esperanza House SANE Unit Carlsbad Mental Health Southern NM Human Contact: Renee Ornelas, MD 3909 Juan Tabo NE, Suite 6 about incest if you or someone you love are wondering or have already 272-6849 625-1457 885-4836 • 885-8888 crisis Development Clovis Santa Fe Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111 Clovis 882-5101remembered having had an incest experience. It may have left you Mental Health Resources Southwest Counseling Clovis Plains Regional Med. Center Santa Fe St. Vincent SANE (505) 883-8020 within the Albuquerque area, or toll free crisis SANE 995-4999 • 989-5952 crisis 769-2345 • 1-800-432-2159 (after hours) 647-2800feeling • 526-3371 confused crisis or foggy as to what actually happened, was it really at 1-888-883-8020 beyond the Albuquerque area 769-7335 ask for SANE Rep. Shiprock, Navajo Nation Deming Laswrong, Vegas and what constituted incest, anyway? Farmington Border Area Mental Health Center Las Vegas Comm. Based Svcs. Northern Navajo Medical Ctr. FAX (505) 883-7530 crisis 546-2174 • 1-800-426-0997 crisis 454-5115 • 425-1048 (after 5pm) Sexual Assault Services/ SANE E-mail: nmcsaas@swcpcom Northern NM 368-6818 Espanola Los Alamos 505-325-2805 • 505-326-4700 crisis Web Site: www.swcp.com/nmcsaas/ Northern NM Family Crisis Center LosThese Alamos andFamily other Council questions will be addressed here, along with referrals 753-1656 • 1-800-206-1656 crisis 662-3264 • 662-4422 crisis to places where you can get more information and counseling. This This publication is printed with the permission of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, This brochure is funded by the Injury Prevention & EstanciaEMS Los Lunas with minor edits for the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Inc. This project Valencia Counseling Services Valenciabrochure Counseling was Ser writtenvices to support you in your struggle to know once and was supported by funds from the NM Injury Prevention and EMS Bureau and Behavioral Health Services Bureau and the Behavioral Health Services 384-0220 • 865-4739 crisis 865-3359 • 865-3359 crisis Services Division, New Mexico Department of Health, and with Grant No. 2001SWBX0028 for all whatNew really Mexico happened Coalition in your of Sexualchildhood. Assault Programs, Inc. awarded by the Violence Against Women Office, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Dept. of Division, Dept. of Health, Santa Fe, NM. Justice (DOJ). Points of view in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of policies of the U.S. DOJ. Developed by MARTHA KLEIN, LISW for the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Inc. Info FOR PANEL 2nd save.indd 1 11/23/05 9:52:13 AM WHAT IS INCEST? Fear of being alone Incest is an inappropriate sexual behavior between people whoNew Mexico are considered Sexual Abuse to Program Coordinators Unable(continued) to make love The following is a list of mental health agencies with counselors trained to help survivors of sexual abuse. You be family to each other. Inappropriate sexual behavior can include exhibitionism, Cynicism Portales voyeurism (being forced to watch sexual acts or having someone watch you), Shiprock may decide you want to talk with someone over the phone Mental Health Resource Home for Women &Feeling Children, out of control before you can go in to see them. You may want to join a fondling of private body parts over or under clothes, mutual 359-1221 masturbation, • 1-800-432-2159 oral crisis Rape Crisis Service Angry with yourself and/or others sex, anal sex, and intercourse. Raton 368-5124 group for incest survivors. Either way, find a therapist who Taos/Colfax Comm. Services Silver City Dependency on familiar friends believes your feelings and memories. Give yourself the 445-2754 El Refugio, Rape Crisis Wondering Svcs. what you did to deserve the abuse time and compassion. You will need both. We usually think of fathers molesting daughters when we Riothink Rancho of incest. While 538-2125 Rio Rancho Family Health Center Border Area Mental Being Hlth. Ctr. worried that you will never be normal again this type of inappropriate sexual contact does occur, incest also occurs between 388-4412 ‘No matter what is true of your past, the world is in need of your best 896-0928 • 1-888-920-6333 crisis Eating problems siblings, cousins, mothers and son, mothers and daughters, Roswell grandparents, and 1-800-426-0997 crisis contributions. You can only give your best by becoming your best self; offspring, etc. It also occurs between people who are not biologically Counseling Associates family but Socorro Increased use of drugs or alcohol and this is only possible if you consider yourself deserving of emotional who have the same extension of trust and familiarity as have 623-1480 people related by Socorro Mental Health healing.’, (Betty Caponera, Ph.D., Overcoming Painful Past Experiences’) Ruidoso 835-2444Wondering or realizing that you experienced incest as a child may feel like your blood. This means people who are “aunts”, “uncles”, best friends of the fam- Taos The Counseling Center entire world has been turned inside out. You may feel like everything you were New Mexico Sexual Abuse Program Coordinators ily, and with Native Americans can include Medicine Men 237-5038 and other • 437-7407 respected crisis Community Against Violence Elders. 1-800-634-3666 crisis 758-8082told or• 758-9888 came tocrisis believe about your past and your family was a lie. You may also San Felipe Taos Mental Health 758-1125wonder why you were picked; if you did something to “cause” it.
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