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A short triage page to point you to the right part of CLCI Hub depending on whether you are worried about someone, currently inside a group, recently left, or supporting a survivor.
Introduction
CLCI Hub is a large reference site and the right path through it depends entirely on your situation. The four pages below are the most common starting points. They link directly into the tactic profiles, guides, country-specific help, and tools that match each context, so you do not have to navigate the whole site to find what you need.
If you cannot tell which path applies to you, the safest first read is /guides/coercive-control-in-spiritual-communities, which explains the underlying pattern in plain language. Nothing on this site is a substitute for professional legal, medical, or therapeutic advice; everything here is reference material to help you ask better questions of the people who can give that advice.
Pick the path that matches your situation
- Worried about someone — a partner, parent, sibling, child, friend, colleague.
- Inside a high-control group — you have growing doubts but have not left.
- Recently left — the first weeks and months after disconnection.
- Supporting a survivor — therapist, family member, teacher, or friend.
- Parent or family member — when the loved one shares family history with you.
- Researching a group — academic, student, or policy researcher.
- Listed organisation — you represent a group profiled on this site.
- Need urgent help — emergency, crisis, or safeguarding routes.
- Just want to understand the warning signs — overview without a specific case.
Other useful starting points
- Country-specific help pages list emergency contacts and local recovery networks for your jurisdiction.
- The patterns index lets you search by what is happening rather than by group name.
- The group profiles offer detailed CLCI / BITE breakdowns when you already know the group's name.
Safety
If anyone is in immediate physical danger, contact local emergency services first. This is a reference site and cannot intervene in a live safeguarding situation.
Related on CLCI Hub
Practical guides
Tools
Continue in CLCI Hub
- If you are worried about someone in a high-control groupA short reading list and pathway for family members, partners, and friends concerned about a loved one's involvement.
- If you are currently in a high-control groupA private reading path for anyone with growing doubts about a group they are still part of, with attention to information-control and digital-safety risks.
- If you recently left a high-control groupAn ordered reading path for the first weeks and months after leaving — practical, identity-rebuilding, and trauma-aware.
- If you are supporting someone who has left a high-control groupReading paths and posture notes for therapists, partners, family, and friends of recent leavers.
- If you are a parent or family memberWhere to begin when the person you are worried about is your child, parent, sibling, or partner — with attention to the relational dynamics that make family cases distinctive.
- If you are researching a group or the fieldEntry point for academic researchers, students, and policy researchers using the CLCI Hub dataset and methodology pages.
- If you represent an organisation listed on CLCI HubHow to engage with CLCI Hub if you are an officer, spokesperson, or legal representative of a profiled group.
- If you need urgent helpImmediate next steps when someone is in physical danger, in a mental-health crisis, or otherwise needs help faster than reading reference material allows.
- Warning signs at a glanceA short, plain-English list of the most commonly documented high-control-group warning signs, with links into the longer profiles for each.
- Patterns of high-control behaviourSearch the CLCI Hub catalogue by what is happening rather than by group name. Eighteen documented coercive patterns with linked profiles.
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