Coronavirus/COVID-19 Update
Unfortunately, we have had to take the very difficult decision to suspend referrals to our Edinburgh Adult Service that offers support for adult survivors across the City. With the ongoing coronavirus/COVID-19 situation and because of our limited staff capacity, we cannot provide support to new referrals 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
We expect that our other services will face some level of disruption 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.
You can also contact the Rape Crisis Scotland national helpline on 0888 01 03 02 (open every day from 6pm until midnight) for support.
If you have experienced sexual assault in the past 7 days, please contact us on support@ercc.scot.
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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