sexual assault crisis
and
prevention services
Project Sister Family Services (PSFS) strives to reduce the trauma and the risk of sexual assault, child abuse, and child sexual abuse
in the East San Gabriel and Inland Valleys of Southern California by providing a variety of crisis intervention services and outreach and prevention programs.
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Our sexual assault crisis intervention programs
24 hour Hot-Line, offering immediate crisis assistance in seven languages seven days a week. Service statistics for 2006-07 indicate that we responded to 818 crisis hotline calls in nine languages, including English, Spanish, Korean, Taiwanese, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Tagalog, and French. [909.626.help(4357) or 626.966.4155]
Accompaniment/Advocacy, in which trained volunteers support and advise survivors of sexual violence and child abuse at the hospital, police station, and during court appearances. In 2006-07, Project Sister Family Services provided 213 hospital, court, and/or police station accompaniments to survivors, 51% of whom were under the age of 18.
Information and Referral Service, providing information about medical services or reporting an assault, and referral to appropriate agencies.
Professional Counseling Services, available to female and male survivors, significant others, and non-offending family members. Our counseling services help survivors to overcome the traumatic aftereffects of sexual violence and child abuse. Last year, Project Sister Family Services counselors served 231 individual clients with 1,846 hours of individual counseling.
Counseling for Children who are survivors of physical and sexual abuse. Our youngest clients attend counseling sessions that help them to heal, recover their childhoods and regain the confidence to pursue happy and productive futures. Non-offending family members of sexually abused children are also treated, enabling them to support the survivors in their families more effectively while managing their own anxieties. Parents of physically abused children are treated as well, frequently providing Project Sister Family Services counselors with the opportunity to heal parents who have experienced abuse in their own lives. In this way, we make a significant contribution toward ending a cycle of family violence that can persist for generations. Fully 41%, of all individual counseling clients in 2006-07 were under the age of 18.
Learn more about Project Sister Family Services' counseling services for abused children and adults molested as children.
Support Groups are available to adult and teen survivors of sexual assault and molestation, families and significant others. Last year, Project Sister Family Services provided 44 support group clients with 707 counseling hours.
Learn more about our counseling programs and support groups. >>>
*24-hour Help Line • 909.626.HELP (909.626.4357) • 626.966.4155
7 days a week
For immediate crisis assistance, please call our 24-hour Help Line. All other questions or comments can be directed to
Project
Sister Family Services Information. Questions and comments should be non-emergency in nature and will be answered within a week of receipt. |
How can we help?
Are you aware?
1 in 2 sexual assault victims is under age 18 and 1 in 6 is under the age of 12.*
Less than 1 in every 3 sexual assaults is reported to law enforcement officials.*
A woman is raped every two minutes in the United States.*
1 out of every 3 women and 1 out of every 5 men in Southern California will be sexually assaulted.
Sexual assault is a violent crime affecting all ages, races, cultures and economic classes.
6 out of 10 sexual assaults occurred in the survivor's home or at the home of a friend, relative or neighbor.*
77% of sexual assaults are committed by people the survivors/victims know.*
Sexual assault survivors need help to cope with the physical, emotional, social and legal crises arising from their assault.
* Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice
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