Support

 

To find out about our support service in Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian, and the types of support we offer including group support, advocacy support and long-term support please visit our website. 

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Specialist support for young people - The STAR Project

 

We have a dedicated support service called the STAR project which offers face-to-face support for all young people aged 12-18, who have experienced sexual violence at any time in their lives. To find out more about the STAR project here. 

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Advocacy

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Our advocacy service offers support to survivors who are considering engaging, or have engaged, with the criminal justice system following an experience of sexual violence that has happened at any time in your life. Find out more here.

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Still I Am (SIA) Project

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SIA offers free and confidential emotional and counselling support to women, all members of the trans community and non-binary people, from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds aged 16 and over, who have had any form of unwanted sexual experience. Find out more here.

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Student Survivors Project (SSP)

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The Student Survivors project offers counselling support to university students and students from the Edinburgh College Community of all ages and genders who have experienced sexual violence at any time in their lives. Find out more here.

 

Prevention Work

 

Our Sexual Violence Prevention service offers free, high quality workshops on sexual violence and related issues to 11–25 year olds in schools, youth groups and other youth settings in Edinburgh and the Lothians. We do so as part of Rape Crisis Scotland’s National Prevention Network, using the Preventing Sexual Violence Pack. To find out more about our prevention work, or book workshops in your school, please visit the prevention page on our website.