Our Programs
Centering survivor leadership. Strengthening systems.
Capacity Building
Through individual consultations, monthly peer advocacy meetings, and ongoing collaborative efforts with coalition partners, the S.T.O.P. Coalition builds the capacity of survivor-led initiatives working in prevention, response, recovery, resilience, and remembrance.
Coordinated Response
The S.T.O.P. Coalition triages response efforts among our coalition partners — organizations, survivor peer advocates, disaster response professionals, and service providers who have supported hundreds of communities impacted by mass violence, terrorism, and tragedies over the last three decades.
Peer Advocacy
S.T.O.P. promotes survivor-led peer advocacy, public education and awareness through collaborative campaigns, joint statements, and public education. We advocate for policies to ensure effective prevention and long-term support for individuals, families, and communities impacted by terrorism and targeted mass violence.
F.A.Q.
The Survivors of Tragedy Outreach Program (S.T.O.P.) is a survivor-led coalition devoted to supporting communities impacted by mass violence. We are an international network of survivors and nonprofit organizations providing survivor peer support, outreach, advocacy, and prevention aimed at promoting long-term healing and resilience.
Our vision is a world where no community faces the aftermath of mass violence alone, and where survivors’ voices lead the way in healing and in driving meaningful change to prevent future tragedies.
Our members represent survivor-led organizations, peer advocates, disaster response professionals, and service providers who have supported hundreds of communities impacted by mass violence, terrorism, and tragedies over the last three decades. Our institutional partners are dedicated to prevention, recovery, resilience, and remembrance.
The S.T.O.P. Coalition was formed to address a decades-long problem. We continue to see our communities, our families, devastated by mass violence and tragic loss of life, young and old. Our survivor population includes individuals, families, first responders, and community members who have witnessed, survived or lost loved ones to senseless mass violence and terrorism.
As survivors, we have experienced this firsthand, the pain, the grief, the injury, the long-term ripple effects, the layers of emotion of losing a loved one and of surviving a trauma many could never imagine, and which could have been prevented. So many of us directly impacted by these tragedies, and others who feel our pain, have made tremendous efforts to move the needle and enact change.
The need for long-term, survivor-centered support is profound: Many resources focus on short-term crisis response, but recovery often takes years. Survivors often find healing through peer advocacy and helping others, creating a cycle of resilience and leadership. The S.T.O.P. coalition connects survivors leading systems change with peers and professionals, offering capacity building, reducing isolation and providing hope.
We are calling for advocacy and prevention to ensure that no more families and communities have to endure the pain of this kind of trauma and loss. We are calling to our society to commit to long-term healing for families of those impacted by terrorism and mass violence. If you are feeling helpless now, hopeless that things will never change, we want to tell you there are so many ways you can make a difference.
STOP and think. START thinking together.
STOP the arguing. START taking responsibility.
STOP the inhumanity. START addressing mental health issues in our society and providing timely support to those in need.
STOP focusing on the fringes and pay attention to the elephant in the room. START systemic change to correct the many factors causing this problem.
STOP senseless violence killing our families and causing long-term trauma and grief. START enacting effective prevention measures on state and federal levels.
STOP feeling scared and being silent. START asking for help. If you suspect something, even in your own family, reach out to someone you trust.
STOP feeling like we can’t solve this problem. START turning up the volume—talk about this problem and keep getting louder.
Together we can STOP the violence. But be mindful that, even if the violence stops tomorrow, we will continue our work, because the recovery, the need for long-term healing, the pain does not end. Our survivor community is finite now, but the degrees of separation are diminishing. We are cardholders to a club we never wished to belong to. This club has an inexcusably high price. If we don’t stop the violence now, you may hold the card next.
Join the S.T.O.P. Coalition. Find out how you can get involved as an individual, organization, community volunteer. Join the coalition.
Support the S.T.O.P. Coalition. Invest in survivor-led systems change. Your support strengthens an entire ecosystem—not just a single program. The S.T.O.P. Coalition centers survivor leadership, aligns partners, expands funding pathways, and advances coordinated, trauma-informed care. Support our mission.
Here are 3 ways to START taking action right away.
Talk. Speak out about this issue and propose solutions
Educate. Know the facts around mass violence and share them with others
Care. Show compassion, empathy, and proactive listening.
Remember to check in with yourself, check in with others, and get involved with something positive in your community.
The S.T.O.P. Coalition is not a crisis response service and does not provide immediate support. If you or someone you know is in immediate need of assistance, please utilize the 988 Crisis Lifeline by dialing 9-8-8 on your phone or visiting 988lifeline.org. Help is available 24 hours a day.