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What to expect at a Rape Crisis Centre
Information on the services in Rape Crisis Centres in Ireland.
Any experience of sexual violence is intensely isolating. Care, help and support is available at your Rape Crisis Centre. It is important to stress that the trauma of an attack will have long term effects on your life, and that in dealing with, and examining these, you have a right to support. In order to break the isolation imposed by the attack, you need to have contact with others who acknowledge and validate your experience and how it has affected you.
Rape Crisis Centres (RCC’s) offer support, advice and advocacy services for both survivors and supporters of survivors of rape and all other forms of sexual violence.
Your local RCC will provide some or all of the following services:
- A helpline (all centres have helplines).
- Support and counselling for women and men who have experienced any form of sexual violence.
- Dublin Rape Crisis Centre offers a 24-hour, 365-days a year national helpline - 1800 778888.
- Someone to accompany you to the Gardai, the court or the doctor if this is what you decide to do.
RCC’s provide information about:
- Recovery
- Garda procedures
- Pregnancy testing, the morning after pill, tests for sexually transmitted infections and the test for HIV/AIDS
- The legal process
- Providing support for family, friends, partners and others who are supporting survivors of sexual violence.
All services are fully confidential and free.
Click here to find a Rape Crisis Centre in Ireland.
Rape Crisis Network FREEPHONE: 1800 778888
Web: www.rcni.ie
Map of support services: www.rcni.ie/rape-crisis-centres.aspx
RCC offers a confidential, 7 days a week 24-hour telephone helpline, staffed by trained counsellors who are available to listen to you and to any concerns you may have in regard to issues of rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment or childhood sexual abuse.
Content developed by the Irish Rape Crisis Network.
