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Partner With Us to Educate, Equip, and Restore Victims of Emotional Abuse and Trauma
Join MEND Today
Donate Now
Partner With Us to Educate, Equip, and Restore Victims of Emotional Abuse and Trauma
Your support is changing lives.
The MEND Project seeks to educate, equip, and restore all who are impacted by emotional abuse and trauma and train those who interface with them personally or professionally. Your contributions are allowing us to fulfill these goals!
Annette Oltmans
We Are Thankful for Your Generous Support
HOW CAN YOU GIVE
FUNDRAISE
You can fundraise to support our mission of equipping and caring for survivors and educating those professionals and people who want to help.
SPONSOR SURVIVOR SCHOLARSHIPS
Support survivors of abuse by sponsoring training scholarships.
Become a MEND Project Partner
Our MEND Project Partners are vital members of our team. Without them, we couldn’t do what we do! These one time and monthly contributors allow us to continue producing free workshops, training programs, online content, and other educational materials to educate and equip survivors, responders, and advocates.
Our Mission
EDUCATE
We supply education for survivors, advocates, and responders on covert abuse tactics, providing clarity and validation for people who’ve been harmed—and training for licensed and non-licensed responders. Our goal is to end the stigma (and confusion) surrounding abuse for good.
EQUIP
We equip both survivors and their advocates with the tools and materials needed to recognize abuse when it’s happening and ultimately put an end to relationship violence in our nation.
RESTORE
Above all, we seek to restore survivors by validating their experience and providing support for their healing journey. We want them to know they are not alone and that freedom is possible.
OUR CORE VALUES
Our mission is expressed in four fundamental values:
LISTEN
CAREFULLY
STRENGTHEN
CONNECTIONS
PROCLAIM
TRUTH
DO NO
FURTHER HARM
OUR VISION & AIM
The MEND Project’s vision is to end Double Abuse®. We seek to expose the hidden issues of Original and Double Abuse® in our culture and bring them into the light so that no more victims are harmed.
Your support makes a difference.
Together, we can end abuse.
Help & Information
If you are in immediate danger contact the national hotline (1-800-799-SAFE) or call 911.
Disclaimer: The author of this website, The MEND Project and its founder, Annette Oltmans, takes responsibility for the presentation of the content of this website. We are not clinicians, but are researchers and desire to help you. We are not trying to vilify any gender, or any person, regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality etc. Our mission is to identify and clarify the single behaviors or patterns of behaviors that occur when covert abuse is present. The material on this website and the services our nonprofit offers are offered in an effort to serve all victims of abuse. © 2025 The MEND Project. All Rights Reserved.