doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000011851
Article type: Original Research
1 January 1982
Volume 7 Issue 1
doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000011851
Article type: Original Research
1 January 1982
Volume 7 Issue 1
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Caring for Adolescent Victims of Sexual Assault
Royna Cooper
Carol Deller
CITATION: Cooper R., & Deller C. (1982). Caring for Adolescent Victims of Sexual Assault. Children Australia, 7(1), 378. doi.org/10.1017/S0312897000011851
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Abstract
The Sexual Assault Referral Centre (S.A.R.C.) was established in January, 1976, as a crisis and support centre for victims of sexual assault. It was Australia’s first hospital-based sexual assault centre and developed out of concern from community groups, feminists and police in Perth about the treatment of sexual assault victims.
The Centre provides a 24 hour per day, 7 day per week service for any victim of sexual assault who is over the age of 12 years. The vast majority of people attending the Sexual Assault Referral Centre have been female but the service is also available for males.