The hotline provides an essential link between sexually and domestically abused individuals and our services, including recommendations of safe places to go following an assault, arrangements for emergency shelter, information regarding all medical and legal options, advocates to mediate between the survivor and medical and law enforcement personnel, service referrals and counseling. Our hotline volunteers undergo a rigorous training program and background check to ensure that the support they offer is informative, empathetic and safe.

An advocate is available 24-hours a day to mediate interactions between the survivor, emergency room personnel, and law enforcement. Our advocates concentrate on the best interests of the survivor, including listening to their needs rather than asking questions and directing her/his behavior. To best serve sexual assault survivors, our advocates provide replacement clothing, and information regarding the Sexual Assault Examination Kit procedures, STD testing/treatment and other medical choices.

The legal advocate serves as a liaison between the survivor and the criminal justice system to ensure that the survivor’s rights are protected. The advocate can accompany a survivor to a police interview, assist with orders of protection, provide case updates, and attend all meetings and court proceedings with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney’s office with, or on behalf of, the survivor.

Our master degree clinicians provide trauma-level short and long-term counseling, and specialize in child, adolescent, and adult clients. Counseling is available for survivors and non-offending family members in individual and group settings. We understand that each client’s social and cultural situation is unique. The survivor is regarded as the authority on what is best as they work to redefine themselves to reduce the effects of the trauma and to maximize their safety.

Need to get out?

Housing issues making you feel you have to go back?

Call us.

We will arrange for and transport you to safe temporary shelter.

We provide case management for our clients, including referrals and information about other social services, and accompanying the survivor to appointments with other agencies. We also provide economic empowerment assistance, including, but not limited to, pre-employment and transitional skills needs.

Riverview Center provides educational programming to tens of thousands of schoolchildren each year to help enact change in our cultural biases and assumptions, by addressing such topics as body safety, healthy versus unhealthy relationships, sexual harassment, sexting, gender stereotyping, bullying, cyberbullying, and Internet safety. But if our message does not reach parents, caregivers, and community leaders, not only do the adults not embrace our message, the information the children are learning could be contradicted in the home. To address this, we offer a variety of violence prevention presentations for adults in which we highlight positive role modeling and healthy parenting techniques, and strive to change attitudes and beliefs about gender roles, stereotypes, and violence in our society. We also provide the tools necessary to appropriately handle disclosures of abuse and recognize the possible physical and emotional consequences of being a survivor. Specialized training is also conducted for law enforcement, the prosecuting attorney’s office, and social service and medical personnel.

Please contact us if you would like to set up free programming.