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Your gift helps save lives.
Your donation empowers S3C Foundation to support people living with complex trauma and dissociation through lived experience psychoeducation, peer support groups, and improved clinical training for mental health care providers.
Every gift extends care and access to people seeking deeper connection and healing who would otherwise not have the financial means to participate. Your support also makes our programs accessible to people in the Global South and in countries where currency exchange rates make USD-based pricing prohibitive.
This work is made possible by community members who believe in interdependence and want healing to reach those most impacted by trauma and systemic inequities. Thank you for being part of that.
What your donation makes possible
Based on where donor funds have actually gone, here are specifics you could list:
Scholarships to the S3C Advanced Symposia, our immersive in-person peer retreat
21 online peer groups
Printed copies of System Speak books distributed to survivors
Free seats for community members at every clinical training we offer
Collaboration with non-profit partner events such as An Infinite Mind's Healing Together Conference and books for the Beauty After Bruises baskets
Psychoeducational book studies and topical classes with guest presenters
A lived experience presence at ISSTD conferences, connecting clinicians with survivor-centered resources
Meals and direct care for survivors at in-person gatherings
The System Speak podcast, free psychoeducation reaching listeners in more than 100 countries
How Your Donations Have Been Used
Free community membership. Donations help sustain the System Speak Community, where about two out of every three members participate for free, so survivors can access peer connection and resources regardless of their capacity to pay.
Symposium scholarships. Dedicated donations funded two scholarships for each S3C symposium each year, covering registration for survivors who could not otherwise attend.
Printed books for survivors. Donor funds have supported printed book distribution for every book printed, so that any survivor has access to resources to support their healing regardless of capacity to pay.
Books for Beauty After Bruises Therapy Boxes. S3C has donated books to Beauty After Bruises for their Therapy Box Project, which sends survivors without access to specialized trauma therapy a personalized collection of healing resources and comfort items.
Presence at ISSTD conferences. Dedicated donations covered S3C vendor tables at the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) annual conference each year, connecting survivors and clinicians with our resources.
Recovery book study. In Spring 2026, dedicated donor funds supported a recovery book study with presenter Laura Brown, who came to join us in our study of her book, "Not the Price of Admission" about improving quality of life through healthy relationships.
Conference scholarships with a partner organization. Donations have provided registration scholarships each year for over a decade to support An Infinite Mind's Healing Together Conference for survivors.
Emergency community response. In 2026, dedicated donations provided 600 meals to survivors in Minneapolis at the request of a local community organization.
In addition, general donations help by:
Keeping peer groups running. Donations help sustain our twenty-one active peer groups, including the platforms, scheduling, and facilitator support that make each meeting possible.
Opening trainings to community members. Survivors and community members can attend our professional trainings for free, giving them access to the same education clinicians receive.
Technology and access. Donations support the website, community platform, and digital tools that let survivors in more than 100 countries find us and participate from wherever they live.
Accountability and good governance. Donations help cover the filings, registrations, and recordkeeping that keep S3C a nonprofit in good standing, along with the policies that protect survivors, such as our safeguarding, non-discrimination, and grievance policies.
Room to respond. Unrestricted gifts give S3C the flexibility to say yes when our community brings us an urgent need.
Trauma-responsive care in every detail. Behind each program is careful planning around safety, pacing, and accessibility, so that participating feels supportive for people carrying complex trauma.
All of your donations impact survivors in direct but invisible ways.
Care You Won't See on a Program List
Some of the most meaningful work at S3C never appears in a schedule or a budget line. Survivors of complex trauma often carry their hardest moments alone, and when a community is steady and present, people no longer have to. Your donations sustain that community, and through it, care like this:
Showing up for life's milestones. Our community has gathered for weddings, funerals, and graduations so that survivors who would otherwise have faced those days alone had people beside them.
Opening doors to work and opportunity. We have written reference letters and job recommendations for survivors rebuilding their lives, offering the kind of support many people take for granted.
Helping people find a home. We have walked alongside unhoused community members as they moved into new housing.
Advocating for access. We have advocated for disability rights so that survivors received the accommodations they needed at work, at school, and in care.
Supporting families. We have supported parents in our community and helped meet basic needs, so children and families had more of what they needed to thrive.
This care happens quietly, and we keep it that way to protect the privacy and dignity of the people involved. It is possible because donors help keep this community connected, staffed, and present for one another.