Planned feature
Explore your options
A calm, step-by-step way to understand possible next steps—without pressure or labels.
A new resource is taking shape
You don't have to figure it out alone.
Next Step Options is being developed to help you explore options, find support, and decide what comes next—without pressure.
Coming soon
The full Next Step Options platform is under development. We’re taking the time to make it useful, respectful, accessible, and grounded in expert review.
What we’re building
Simple tools designed to offer information and choices—without asking you to explain or label what happened.
Planned feature
A calm, step-by-step way to understand possible next steps—without pressure or labels.
Planned feature
Clear paths to established organizations and services, based on what feels useful to you.
Planned feature
Thoughtful, reviewed language to help start a conversation or ask for support in your own way.
Planned feature
Practical, compassionate guidance for showing up for a friend without taking away their choices.
About Next Step Options
When something uncomfortable, coercive, or harmful happens, it can be hard to know where to begin. Next Step Options is being created as a calm place to understand possibilities and connect with established help.
We believe good support respects your pace, your privacy, and your choices. The future platform will not ask you to submit your story or push you toward one outcome.
Find support now
Next Step Options does not provide emergency assistance or live support. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. The organizations below are independent services.
Established support organization
National support from trained staff by phone, text, or online chat.
Available 24/7
Established support organization
New Jersey’s statewide sexual-violence hotline and connections to county programs.
Available 24/7