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CanadaHere we highlight the remarkable ways the Our Wave community fosters a safe, supportive, and engaging space for survivors to embark on their healing journey.
479,667 people have joined the Our Wave community since the platform launched in 2019. Survivors have shared 1,723 stories from 73 countries, our team has answered 725 survivor questions, and we have made 105,269 resource referrals. Every figure on this page comes from our own platform data.
Community users
Stories shared
Questions answered
Resource referrals
The Our Wave community has 479,667 users. Members read stories, leave anonymous messages of support, work through grounding exercises, and mark healing milestones as they reach them. To date the community has started 13,414 grounding exercises and reached 25,945 milestones.
Read our 2025 annual reportNew community users in 2025
Survivor milestones achieved
Grounding exercises started
Survivor questions answered
Survivors have published 1,723 stories on Our Wave, shared from 51 U.S. states and territories and 73 countries. 857 of those stories include a personal message of hope for other survivors, and 977 include a message about healing.
Explore the impact of storytellingSurvivor stories shared
Survivor artwork shared
Messages of Hope posted
Messages of Healing shared
State/Territory
Stories shared
California
105
New York
70
Texas
68
Florida
56
Pennsylvania
48
Minnesota
38
Ohio
37
Illinois
35
Georgia
28
North Carolina
26
41 more
Countries with shared stories
U.S. states & territories with shared stories
Survivors can ask anything, anonymously, and someone qualified answers. Questions go to our research and survivor support team, who write back in plain language about consent, disclosure, legal options, relationships, and what healing tends to look like over time. We have answered 725 questions so far, and those answers have been read 452,925 times, which makes them the most-read part of the whole platform. Most of the people reading never had to ask, because someone else already did.
Survivor questions answered all time
Survivor questions answered in 2025
Our Wave has made 105,269 resource referrals, connecting survivors to curated hotlines, therapy services, legal aid organizations, and local support providers. Our resources hub is localized, so a survivor in Japan or Argentina is shown services they can actually reach rather than a U.S. phone number.
Explore our community's impactResource referrals all time
Resource referrals in 2025
Resource Name
Referrals
RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
21,356
Violence Against Women Helpline
4,829
NO MORE Global Directory
4,524
Sexual Violence Helpline Montreal
3,365
SOS WOMAN Line 37
3,184
Women's Emergency Helpline Dominican Republic
2,930
Violence-Free Line Mexico
2,888
Line 114 Honduras
2,876
0800-MUJERES Venezuela
2,730
Purple Line Colombia
2,719
79 more
Our Wave is using data to improve healing outcomes for survivors. In practice that means asking and listening to survivors about what has helped them heal, and adapting our platform to match. One of our studies gathered healing advice from 136 survivors across seven countries so the next person can start their journey with tools that already helped someone else. Survivors contribute their stories to this work only with their explicit permission.
View all researchSee how Our Wave's mission is making headlines and inspiring change across the media landscape.
View all pressQuestions we get most often about our numbers, our funding, and how we measure impact.
Our Wave is funded three ways: foundation grants, individual donations, and program revenue from organizations that license our storytelling platform. Our institutional funders include the Oak Foundation, which supports our work on childhood sexual abuse prevention and survivor support. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so donations are tax-deductible and our finances are filed publicly on IRS Form 990.
We track three things: platform metrics, resource utilization, and partnership and research outcomes. Platform metrics include sharing a story, asking a question, or starting a grounding exercise. We also measure what happens when we point someone toward outside help, counting the referrals and asking whether the resource was beneficial or not. The third is what comes of working with partner organizations and researchers. All of this goes into our annual impact report, most recently for 2025.
The impact figures come from our own platform data as reported in our most recent annual impact report, covering 2025. Year-specific figures come from the annual impact report for that year.
No. We do not sell survivor data and we do not share identifying information. A story is only used in research when the survivor has explicitly consented. The aggregate figures on this page contain no identifying details.
Yes, within limits. Researchers can request access to our consented, anonymized story archive through our research team. Journalists can find approved figures and quotes in our press kit. We do not release story text or identifying information without the survivor’s consent.
Our Wave depends on your generous contributions for our continued success. Thank you for supporting us as we build a community where survivors of sexual harm and domestic violence are heard, believed, and supported.
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