The Lina Expertise Center is an initiative of the foundation Misbruikt!

In collaboration with the Spotlight Foundation and the Lisa TGK Foundation.

LINA collaborates internationally with:

How this website came to life

This website was developed by Miranda Freriks, director and board member of the Stichting Misbruikt! (Abused! Foundation). Thanks go to Lars Grijsen for building the site; Danitsja de Nooijer & Heidi for the website copy and training development; Inouschka de Nooijer for designing the logo; Bas Kremers for providing input and co-developing training and education; the Lisa TGK Foundation; Claudia Fischer of the Info Portal Rituelle Gewalt; a journalist in Germany specializing in trauma and journalism, sexual violence, ritual violence, privacy, and digital security; Elly Handson, a clinical psychologist and researcher working in the field of abuse and trauma prevention and evidence-based education in the United Kingdom; and Professor Michael Salter, a criminologist specializing in the study of child sexual exploitation, gender-based violence, and complex trauma in Australia.