This seems like a place where the distinction between "providing services" and raising consciousness / political power is really important. A fellow survivor who is newly coping with their trauma might not be the best person to provide a lot of support to a recently abused person. I have definitely seen the lines get blurred between activism and community support in ways that are downright retraumatizing and unhealthy, too -- sometimes what a person needs is healing and a break from constant reminders of injustice, not to be roped into a really politically active community that will distress them with constant reminders of what has already happened to them.

But! a bunch of people who are oppressed systematically by the same forces can find a lot of healing as well as a lot of organizing might when they are able to join together. And I think unfortunately the Non-profit-industrialization of a lot of support networks has cast a lot of people intimately familiar with a system of oppression as not trustworthy about their own experience, because they are too biased by trauma or what have you -- and then that justifies putting all the power and resources in the hands of those who set out to help treat their individual traumas and pain from a very hiearchical framework. Therapy and services are valuable sure, but horizontal organization can be way way more empowering and building of agency, and give you the means to challenge the political roots of what happened to you. That said, politically organizing is not the same thing as being in a support group and I have seen those wires get crossed in really risky messy ways too!