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Community Resource List

Legal Resources

The People’s Law Library of the Maryland State Law Library has some very good information on the legal standards for peace and protective orders, as well as some information on the courts’ emergency procedures:

Here is a listing for all of the Commissioners’ Offices in Maryland so that you can call the office in your county before applying for a peace order or protective order:

Here is a listing of all the District Court Offices in Maryland so that you can call the Clerk’s Office if you need more information about your case. You want to ask to speak to the civil or family law clerk:

Here is a listing of all the Circuit Court Offices in Maryland so that you can call the Clerk’s Office if you need more information about your case. You want to ask to speak to the civil or family law clerk:

National Survivor Resources:

  • Love Is Respect: 1-866-331-9474 www.loveisrespect.org This is a free and confidential hotline available 24 hours a day/7 days a week.
  • One Love’s My Plan https://www.myplanapp.org/home The myPlan app is designed to help people who identify as female or their friends determine if a relationship is unsafe. It was created in conjunction with researchers at Johns Hopkins University using 20 years of research with female-identified survivors of relationship abuse.

Maryland Survivor Resources:

  • If you are interested in pursuing a protective order, you can contact Women’s Law Center via phone or email 410-321-8761; admin@wlcmd.org

Carroll County:

  • Carroll County Family and Children’s Services (24-hour hotline, accessible via phone and text): 443-865-8031
  • CARE Healing Center (formerly Rape Crisis of Carroll County) 24 hr hotline: 410-857-7322 All services are provided free of charge. They serve any victim of sexual violence age 12 and older, and secondary victims.

Baltimore Metro Area:

New Jersey Survivor Resources:

Pennsylvania Survivor Resources:

Community Resources focused on Survivors of Color:

Community Resources focused on Survivors with Disabilities:

Community Resources focused on LGBTQIA Survivors:

Community Resources focused on immigrant survivors:

Community Resources focused on Male and Male-Identified Survivors:

Bystander Resources:

  • One Love’s MyPlan app: https://www.myplanapp.org/home The myPlan app is designed to help people who identify as female or their friends determine if a relationship is unsafe. It was created in conjunction with researchers at Johns Hopkins University using 20 years of research with female-identified survivors of relationship abuse.

Resources for those at Risk of Committing Violence:

  • Confidential Stop it Now Helpline (focused on intervention and prevention strategies for targeted at eliminated child sexual abuse, and available to talk to adults about their own at-risk behaviors): https://www.stopitnow.org/about-us
  • National Domestic Violence Hotline (Specialize in intimate partner violence, dating abuse and, healthy relationship education for both survivors and those at risk of committing harm) https://www.thehotline.org/help/
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