SRP FAQ
About The Saferoom Project
What is The Saferoom Project ?
What is Saferoom.org ?
Who are the Founders and Co-Presidents?
What are the private forums?
How do I join The SRP web ring?
What is The Saferoom
Project ?
Saferoom started as an online "club" located at
Yahoo.
It began in September of 1998, and has grown to over 1200 members. Saferoom evolved into
The Saferoom Project, a non-profit organization based in North Carolina, supporting
online resources for survivors, their families, friends and partners.
We currently host a real-time chat, private forums and discussion mailing lists,
a poetry mailing list
and an eNewsletter. We also gather for the National SRP Conference annually.
Saferoom is for peer support. It does not offer therapy or crisis intervention, but its members offer friendship, compassion and a place to be understood without being judged.
What is Saferoom.org?
The Saferoom Project website is the central information hub of The Project itself.
Any information that you need to know about The Project, a specific chat or forum therein, or
Founder information for each forum, is at this site. There is also a
Survivor Artwork
Gallery in The Project, that houses poetry, prose, and digital artwork of
Project members. We have an extensive list of abuse and healing resources,
as well as general information on the World Wide Web, and miscellaneous points of
interest in our
Links section.
By
Shopping at
designated online stores from this site, you will contribute financially to the
continued operation of The Project.
All contents of this site are copyrighted, and are not to be used or reproduced. Creators of artwork and literature used on this site retain full rights to their work, and their permission must be sought to use their works elsewhere.
Who are the
Founders and Co-Presidents?
Saferoom, and The project itself, has three founders, and two Co-Presidents. There is one founder for
the Partner and Supporters forum, macaroni_duck.
Regarding issues in a survivor forum, or The Saferoom Project as a whole, write to
mrs88888
or copperbeech.
For issues regarding the Partner forum, write to
macaroni_duck.
Please understand that while we
hold individual conversations in confidence, when there are issues that will
affect the forum as a whole, we freely communicate them to each other.
Mrs88888
You can reach me at: mrs88888.I'm Marlena or mrs88888 as my friends call me. I picked the name because I like the number 8. I am a 45 year old wife and mother. I work as a bookkeeper/office manager for my family's business. I am a survivor who has had multiple abusers. I decided to come online to help in my healing process and found that in helping myself I could also help others. I enjoy chatting with all kinds of people, sitting by the beach and watching the waves and spending time with my family. I love to watch soaps. General Hospital being my favorite, Days of Our Lives & Port Charles. I must make note that I am a huge Oprah and John Travolta fan. Hope to meet them both one day. I am honored to be considered an expert in matters involving sexual abuse by the ExpertCentral.Com network. ExpertCentral.com and About.com have recently merged making me part of the 9th largest site on the Internet! About.com features expert guides on over 650 different topics, featuring helpful links and guide selected content. You can visit me through this link:
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Feel free to pose any question you may have on the topic of sexual abuse and rape. You can also visit my page at Mrs88888.com .
Copperbeech
You can reach me at: copperbeech.I am Kelley. I'm a tree girl, so copperbeech seemed appropriate for my userID. I am an incest survivor,
34, and female. I am
a certified hypnotherapist, author of
Gift of the Dreamtime: Awakening to the Divinity of Trauma,
and I have an intertribal shamanic practice, Soul Intent Arts. I am a Reiki Master and Teacher, and I also write a syndicated column, Intentional Insight: Q&A from Within, which you can read via newsfeed at
My extra time (LOL) is spent largely training in various healing modalities, and getting in as much quality time as I can with the Universe and what I love in it. I travel as often as I can.
Music is a huge part of my life, and I'm always checking out what's new. I tend not to stray too far from
U2, Ani Difranco, David Bowie, and Tori.
I play the piano (ok, not so much anymore), and try to spend as much time as possible outside. You can check out some of my writing
at my the leafpile
. Write me. I would love to talk with you. ;)
Macaroni_duck
You can reach me at:macaroni_duck.I am 37, and the life partner of copperbeech. Extra points to anyone who knows the origin of "Macaroni Duck" =) I work as a database developer and project manager for small businesses, and co-own a small multimedia publishing company. I have recently returned to school to get my masters degree and LPC in counseling. I play Ultimate Frisbee, and I collect music from all walks of life, as well as board games and AD&D modules. I like Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, The Tick, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xfiles and cool stuff =) I have always been very interested in working with people on relationships and communication, and I look forward to sharing and talking with other supporters in The Project!
What are the private forums?
The private forums in The Project are an area that acts as a BBS (bulletin board
system), where you post notes to the forum, and anyone who is a member can read and respond
to them. Our forums
are not viewable by the public. The forums are are divided up by topics, as well as there are
specific forums for survivors only, partners/supporters only, and gay/lesbian/bi/transexuals only.
The forums are moderated, though we ask each member to post respectably and respectfully. Please
honor each other's privacy and keep the forum memberships and their discussions ontopic.
We encourage members to use the following notation in the
post's subject if the content may be triggering:
Since no one can know what triggers someone else, we try to use "common sense" to decide what's triggering. Better to air on the side of caution and place a **TA** warning if talking about sensitive issues. Sometimes people get upset by the fact that they post a message and don't get any responses. Most often it is not a personal reflection on the person or the other members, at all, but a technical glitch. In general, most people read the post boards than respond to them. There are several reasons for people not answering posts. Often when issues are brought up hit that trigger, people don't know how to respond. If you specifically want a response to your post, ask for it. So please post what you can and in doing so, try and respond to others. No one has to post anything, it's just good place to get good feedback and support.