January 22nd, 2026

We’re honored to share an important milestone in The Alliance’s work, one that has been shaped by years of collaboration, learning, and partnership with communities across New York.

The Alliance is becoming New York State’s sexual violence coalition.

This means we will serve as a non-government, survivor-centered organization dedicated to coordinating and strengthening the statewide response to sexual violence. As a state coalition, we will advocate for the 54 rape crisis programs, and the survivors they serve, across New York State, while maintaining our current priorities in New York City as well.

By stepping into this role, we will be building on what has come before while bringing renewed focus, accountability, and coordination to our shared mission to end sexual violence. We recognize the responsibility that comes with serving as a statewide coalition, and we are deeply honored to be entrusted with this role. This expansion is not something we take lightly. It is a commitment to listen closely, partner meaningfully, and remain accountable to survivors and the organizations that serve them across every region of New York.

For 25 years, we’ve worked alongside survivors, advocates, providers, and preventionists to strengthen New York City’s response to sexual violence. Together, we’ve trained thousands of professionals, advanced survivor-centered policy, expanded prevention efforts, and helped build systems that are more coordinated, more accountable, and more responsive to survivors’ needs.

In the last two years we’ve been expanding our reach across New York State. By taking on the role of statewide sexual violence coalition, we will be serving rape crisis programs and survivor systems more comprehensively.

This next chapter is meant to strengthen coordination, share knowledge and data, and build collective power so survivors and the organizations that support them are not left to navigate harm alone. As our Executive Director, Emily Miles, has shared:

“This growth is about ensuring every survivor, regardless of their zip code, has equal access to trauma-informed services. Survivor-serving organizations across New York are doing essential work in an under-resourced and inequitably distributed system. These organizations and the survivors they serve deserve a coordinated, survivor-centered system. We are deeply honored to take on the work of supporting and strengthening that system, together.”

There is substantial work ahead. In the months to come, we’ll be sharing more about what this statewide role looks like in practice and the ways you can be involved as we build this coalition together. In the meantime, you can stay in the loop with by signing up to join our Monthly Sexual Violence Community Digest and following us on Instagram and LinkedIn.

This work is possible because of the trust, leadership, and partnership of so many of you. Whether you’ve learned with us, organized alongside us, funded our work, or shared your expertise and experience: you are part of what makes this moment possible.

Thank you for standing with survivors, and for being part of a community committed to a future free from sexual violence, in all forms, for all people.

With gratitude,

The Alliance