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Site Map

Home page

• Join our free Supporters Scheme
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• Make a donation to us
• More on how to help us
• Our aims

Contact us

• Access a local forensic medical examination
• Access a local GUM clinic
• For your Privacy
• Hide your tracks
• How to contact TRCC
• National Domestic Violence Helpline
• Procedure for reporting to the police
• Rape Crisis Lines in the UK
• Recent Rape or Sexual Assault
• Supportline

Face to Face Counselling

• About Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre
• Are the counsellors professionally qualified?
• Can I bring someone with me?
• Do you have a waiting list?
• General information leaflet
• How do I book sessions?
• How long will each counselling session last?
• How to make contact with TRCC
• Is the service confidential?
• Is the service free?
• If this has happened to You
• If you arrange a Counselling Session
• Specialist Information Service / Library
• What areas do you cover?
• What is counselling?
• What model do you use?
• What we offer
• Who is the service for?
• Who we are

News

• Annual General Meeting, July 2009
• Discussion programme 2009/10
• Mailing list
• National freephone helpline number
• Northumberland Rape Crisis pilot project - latest
• Open Event at Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre
• Special Fund 2009/10
• Successful Abseil event for International Women’s Day, 8th March 2009
• Training calendar 2010-11
• Tyneside Outreach project: information for local agencies
• Visual Media Exhibition on Sexual Violence
• Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Publications

• Annual Reports
• Book list
• Flashbacks   Order form
• Guide to Supporting a Survivor of Rape
• Learning Disability and Sexual Abuse report
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• Order form for publications (for Tyneside and Northumberland agencies only)
• Why can't she forget?

Talks and Visits

Training

• Course fees
• Courses offered
• How to book
• How we work
• In-house training

Useful links

• Find Support in your Area
• National Rape Crisis
• Other Local Services

Volunteering

• Do you offer placements for counselling students?
• How do I become a volunteer?
• How much time will I have to give?
• How will I be supported / supervised?
• What opportunities are available to volunteers?
• What qualifications do I need?
• Will I receive expenses?

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Young Women

Myths

• The abuser/rapist was drunk, on drugs, depressed, under stress etc
• The girl/woman was flirting, had a bad reputation, was wearing a short skirt etc. She was asking for it.
• If you have been sexually abused you will become an abuser
• Most abuse is just a one-off incident done in a moment of madness
• Once a man is aroused he has to have sex - he can't help himself
• She must have wanted it if she didn't fight back and get hurt
• The young woman had been binge drinking
• Young women lie about being sexually abused or raped to get attention

Personal safety

Possible effects of sexual violence

Quiz

• Answers

Supporting a friend

• Helpful responses

Surviving experiences of sexual violence

Tricks used by abusers

Useful links

What is sexual violence

•   Child sexual abuse
•   Organised abuse
•   Rape
•   Ritual abuse
•   Sexual assault
•   Sexual harassment

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