Mutual support groups whose members are individuals who have been involved in physical or emotional abuse by a spouse or other partner. The groups meet in-person, by telephone or via the Internet; provide emotional support, information and resources for those who participate; and may be structured for victims of domestic violence, those responsible for battering them, or for adults or adolescents who as children were traumatized by witnessing violence in their homes.

Mutual support groups whose members are individuals who have been sexually assaulted or have experienced incest as a child, their spouses or partners, other family members and friends. The groups provide emotional support, information and resources to help participants recover from their ordeal and may be structured specifically for male and female sexual assault survivors; individuals who have been sexually abused by physicians, therapists, religious authority figures or other trusted individuals; or male and/or female adults and teens who experienced incest or were sexually exploited as children. Groups may also be offered for perpetrators of sexual assault, child molestation or other sex crimes. Meeting formats may include in-person, telephone or Internet options.

Individuals who are generally between the ages of 18 and 25 depending on the ages that specific programs use for qualification.

Children and adolescents whose own personal, social and familial coping have been affected by the presence of domestic violence/abuse in their home.

Adults who, as children, were subjected to sexual abuse or exploitation by a parent, guardian or other family or extended family member whom the child trusted, and who are dealing with the traumatic effects of the experience in their adult lives. Sexual abuse includes any form of sexual activity imposed upon a child, regardless of the child's cooperation, from lewd remarks or voyeurism to fondling, oral copulation, sodomy or rape.

Adults who, as adults or children, have survived an actual or attempted act of rape, forced oral copulation, sodomy or other sexual assault or abuse which was perpetrated by an individual other than their spouse or, in the case of a child, by an individual other than a parent or other extended family member whom the child trusted.