A survivor led movement redefining justice, safety, and healing
About Us
The Golden Standard is a survivor-led nonprofit working to reimagine how justice, safety, and healing can be pursued in Canada.
We aim to build tools, support systems, and infrastructure that center survivor voices and challenge the failures of traditional responses.
Through our 5-Part Survivor Justice Model, we hope to provide survivors with ways to document harm, connect safely, rate services, track systemic issues, and lead meaningful change — all on their own terms.
This isn’t charity. It’s strategy. And while we’re just getting started, we’re building something that was never meant to exist — because the system wasn’t built for us. But this is.
Meet the Founder
Chelsea Davies is a mother, survivor, and advocate who created The Golden Standard after years of navigating systems that claim to support survivors and seeing firsthand how often they fail.
What began as showing up for others. Sitting in waiting rooms. Listening. Helping survivors find words for what they lived through. It slowly turned into something bigger. More than support. It became structure. More than care. It became accountability.
Chelsea was featured in W5’s documentary Sleeping with the Enemy, which exposed a ring of men who drug, rape, and share images of their victims online. Her ex-husband was identified as one of the offenders. She initially appeared in the documentary under the pseudonym Rachel. Soon after, she went public with her full name.
The Golden Standard was created in the aftermath of that truth. Not just as a response to what happened, but as a blueprint for what should have existed all along. A way to make sure no one else is left to survive it alone.
The National Sexual Assault Database (NSAD)
The National Sexual Assault Database is a project in progress. A trauma-informed reporting system built by survivors, for survivors.
Our goal is to create a safe place to record experiences of sexual violence, whether historical or recent, named or anonymous.
We hope to offer survivors the ability to track patterns, identify repeat offenders, and access meaningful support. Survivors would also be able to choose whether they want to be notified if someone else names the same person, or be connected with others harmed by the same individual.
These connections would be carefully mediated to avoid retraumatization and protect against legal risks, such as collusion claims, if formal reporting happens later.
Participation would always be optional. Always survivor-controlled. Never shared with police or institutions unless requested.
More than a database
We also hope to include a region-specific support directory that would allow survivors to:
Find trauma-informed legal, medical, and mental health services
Filter by service type and location
Read survivor-submitted warnings and feedback
Make informed choices about where they turn next
"This isn’t just about documenting harm. It’s about building power."
Help us make it real.
If you believe this should exist, add your voice. Your support helps us prove the need, apply for funding, and bring this to life.
Use the links below to submit google doc form as a member of the public, survivor, advocate or ally. If you can provide Legal or Developer collaboration please fill out the google doc form as well.
Every voice matters, every bit helps.
Use the links below to submit google doc form as a member of the public, survivor, advocate or ally. If you can provide Legal or Developer collaboration please fill out the google doc form as well.
Every voice matters, every bit helps.
Service Navigation + Survivor Ratings
We’re building a trauma-informed system to help survivors make safer, more informed decisions about where they go for help.
Too many survivors walk into hospitals, shelters, sexual assault centres, or nonprofit offices without knowing what to expect — and leave retraumatized, unsupported, or silenced.
Our goal is to create a survivor-led review system where people can anonymously rate their experiences with services like:
Shelters
Hospitals
Police
Legal aid
Nonprofit organizations
Sexual assault centres
Victim services
Mental health providers
These submissions would be compiled into regional scorecards, identifying which services are safe, which ones cause harm, and where change is urgently needed.
The Survivor Accountability Index (SAI)
The SAI would act as a public-facing record of survivor experiences — a living document built from thousands of real stories.
It would be designed to:
Help survivors choose where to go
Inform funders and policy makers
Push institutions and organizations to do better
Hold harmful service providers accountable
This would not just support individual healing. It would shift how safety is defined and demanded across the system.
"Know what to expect before you walk in. Know what others lived through. Know that your voice helps reshape what comes next."
Help us build the SAI.
If you’ve used a service — good or bad — and want to anonymously share your experience once the tool is ready, we want to hear from you. Please mention in the form below that you would use this service when its available.
Accompaniment (The Golden Standard Team)
We hope to build a team of trained, trauma-informed advocates who can walk beside survivors as they navigate the systems that were never built with them in mind.
The vision is to offer real-time support during some of the most difficult and vulnerable moments, including:
Police reporting
Hospital visits
Court appearances
System navigation appointments
Rights education and post-appointment debriefing
These advocates would not just offer emotional and practical support. They would also observe and document how survivors are treated, whether rights are upheld, and where harm or negligence occurs.
This documentation would help identify systemic failures, institutional patterns, and barriers to access that are often overlooked or erased.
"Someone is beside you.
Someone is watching the system.
Someone is writing down what they don’t want remembered."
Help us build this team.
We are looking for supporters, professionals, and funders who believe no one should face these systems alone.
Mention 'accompaniment' in the form below if you think this is needed.
Mention 'accompaniment' in the form below if you think this is needed.
Data Infrastructure for Systemic Reform
The justice system doesn’t just fail survivors. It erases them.
Right now, there is no centralized way to track repeat offenders across jurisdictions. Survivors are often told their case is a “he said, she said,” even when multiple victims exist in silos, unaware of each other.
We’re building a national, trauma-informed database to change that.
The National Sexual Assault Database (NSAD) is designed to collect survivor-led disclosures, identify patterns, and expose systemic failure without requiring police involvement. Entries can be anonymous or named, and survivors can choose to be connected with others who have named the same person.
This isn’t just a tool for survivors. It’s a data backbone for systemic reform. By mapping repeat offending, institutional mishandling, and legal outcomes, we can provide irrefutable evidence of the patterns survivors have known all along and demand better.
Help us build what should have existed all along.
Because when data speaks, systems can no longer pretend they didn’t know.
If you believe this kind of data could help push for systemic reform, please mention "data collection" in the form below. Your support will help us secure the tools, funding, and reach needed to make it possible.
How Can You Help
The Golden Standard is survivor-led, but we’re not doing this alone. This work needs community, courage, and commitment from people who believe a better system is possible.
You can help by:
Offering funding or in-kind support
Volunteering professional services
Sharing safe, survivor-trusted services in your area
Following and amplifying our work on social media
Adding your voice to show this is needed
Whether you’re a survivor, supporter, legal professional, healthcare worker, educator, or community member — your support helps make this vision real.
Partner With Us
If you’re a trauma-informed service provider, nonprofit, legal professional, or support organization that shares our values, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re building a national service directory to help survivors access safe, trustworthy support. If you’d like your organization to be considered for inclusion, you can reach out to start the conversation.
Please email us at: contact@thegoldenstandar.org
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The Golden Standard
A survivor-led nonprofit building trauma-informed solutions, long term support, and real accountability.
National Sexual Assault Database (NSAD)
A national, survivor-powered database to track patterns, connect survivors, and push for systemic reform.
Chelsea Davies (Founder)
Public advocate, speaker, and survivor working to reimagine justice through truth-telling, connection, and data-driven reform.
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