Unfortunately, we have had to take the very difficult decision to suspend referrals to the following services:
- Edinburgh Adult Service that offers support for adult survivors across the City
- Outreach service in Midlothian and East Lothian
- STAR service for young people
With the ongoing coronavirus/COVID-19 situation and because of our limited staff capacity, we cannot provide support to new referrals to these services in a timely way.
We appreciate that waiting for our referral list to reopen can be difficult. Please see this link for alternative sources of support: List of alternative counselling services.
If you have experienced sexual assault in the past 7 days, please contact us on firstname.lastname@example.org.
You can also get support from the National Rape Crisis Helpline, open every night from 6pm to midnight: 08088 01 03 02, or the textline: 07537 410 027.
Survivors already receiving support will continue to be supported by phone/email/text where this is possible and appropriate. You should have heard from your ERCC support worker about your ongoing support sessions.
There may be further disruption to our services in the coming weeks, including the cancellation of appointments, restriction of opening hours and limiting of service provision. We will keep this page updated accordingly.
WHAT WE DO
We offer free and confidential emotional and practical support, information and advocacy to women, all members of the trans community, non-binary people and young people aged 12-18 in Edinburgh, East and Midlothian, who have experienced sexual violence at any time in their lives. This includes, rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, childhood sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation.
We work to change attitudes about gender based violence and improve services for survivors. Our prevention project offers free sexual violence prevention education to 11–25 year olds in schools and other youth settings in Edinburgh City, East, Mid and West Lothian.
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