The Five Programs
PROGRAM ONE
Survivor System Navigation
This work operates inside legal and institutional systems to understand how they actually function when harm occurs. We focus on the moments where systems become opaque, fragmented, or unsafe — and where survivors are expected to absorb risk without protection. By staying close to real-world processes, we surface how harm is compounded and where systems consistently fail to support or adapt. This insight becomes the foundation for accountability and reform across Project Medusa.
1
System Observation
We observe how justice and institutional processes unfold in practice, identifying where delay, confusion, and fragmentation create risk.
2
Continuity Across Systems
We track how survivors are moved — or dropped — between institutions, exposing gaps that leave no one responsible for the whole experience.
3
Exposure of Hidden Failure Points
We surface the moments the system rarely examines, but where harm is most often reproduced.
PROGRAM Two
Accountability & System Evidence
This work transforms lived experience into evidence that exposes repeat failure, not isolated outcomes. We document patterns across cases, decisions, and institutional behavior to reveal how systems enable harm to continue. By shifting the focus from individual credibility to structural accountability, this program forces learning where the system prefers silence. Evidence becomes leverage for change.
1
Pattern Documentation
We track recurring issues across delays, dismissals, credibility assessments, and outcomes to identify systemic risk.
2
System Analysis
We examine how policies, discretion, and institutional design contribute to repeat harm.
3
Public Evidence & Findings
We publish accessible reports and briefs that make systemic failure visible and impossible to ignore.
PROGRAM Three
Ethical Safeguards & Power Correction
This work exists to confront how power operates when survivors are asked to participate in advocacy, media, research, or reform. Too often, participation is framed as opportunity while risk remains unacknowledged. We focus on correcting those dynamics by establishing clear standards for consent, protection, and withdrawal. This program shifts ethics from intention to enforcement.
1
Consent Frameworks
We design structures that ensure participation is informed, voluntary, and reversible — without penalty.
2
Public Engagement Review
We assess media, advocacy, and public requests to identify risk, pressure, or misalignment.
3
Power Intervention
We step in when engagement becomes coercive, extractive, or unsafe — prioritizing survivor agency over visibility.
PROGRAM fOUR
Post-System Reality & Long-Term Impact
This work focuses on what remains after formal processes end — the unresolved impact systems rarely account for. Legal closure does not equal resolution, and the long-term effects of system involvement are largely undocumented. By capturing post-system realities, we challenge how success is defined and expose where responsibility ends too soon. This insight reshapes timelines for reform and prevention.
1
Long-Term Impact Mapping
We document how system involvement affects health, identity, work, relationships, and stability over time.
2
Education & Reflection
We provide non-clinical education that helps survivors understand post-system responses and regain agency.
3
Reintegration Pathways
We support reconnection to leadership, creativity, and civic participation — when and if survivors choose.
PROGRAM FIVE
Prevention & Public Safety
This work moves upstream to reduce harm before it occurs. Prevention cannot rely on awareness alone — it requires evidence about where risk actually exists and how harm is enabled. We apply survivor-informed research to environments and institutions where prevention can make the greatest difference. This is where Project Medusa shifts from response to redesign.
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Survivor-Informed Prevention Education
Translate lived experience into evidence-informed education that identifies real-world risk patterns and reduces conditions that enable harm.
2
High-Risk Environment Training & Advisory
Provide targeted guidance for nightlife venues, campuses, and digital platforms to strengthen safety practices, risk awareness, and institutional response before harm occurs.
3
Public Education & Awareness
Deliver prevention-focused public education through podcasts, talks, and partnerships that increase understanding of coercive dynamics without relying on survivor disclosure.
4
Organizational Safety Frameworks
Support organizations in developing clear, ethical safety frameworks, policies, and response protocols that reduce risk and strengthen accountability.
The Survivor Collective | Project Medusa