Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault operates a 24-hour crisis line through which callers receive immediate crisis intervention and assistance from specially trained Crisis Advocates. The crisis line is accessible through a toll-free number and a number dedicated for TTY/TDD/SMS response. The 24-hour crisis line serves all of Southern Arizona. Bilingual services are available 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. Walk-in clients receive the same array of services as do crisis line callers.

As part of the Hospital Response: Sexual Assault Response Service (SARS), a partnership among Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault, Pima County Attorney's Office, all 13 law enforcement agencies, Pima County Victim Witness, two crime labs, and the community hospitals, our specially trained advocates and forensic examiners respond to recent victims of sexual assault in all area emergency departments. We currently collaborate with Northwest Medical Center and Tucson Medical Center to provide crisis services, specialized sexual assault medical forensic examinations and evidence collection in each of these hospitals 24 hours a day - 7 days a week.

The Sexual Assault Response Service is a 24-hour/7-day a week hospital response team providing services to recent survivors of sexual assault. A SARS advocate can respond to any Tucson hospital emergency department to provide victim/survivors with immediate crisis intervention and advocacy, as well as information about the victim/survivor's options and rights. A specially trained Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner is able to provide a medical-forensic exam and evidence collection. SARS also facilitates a victim/survivor's entry into longer-term support, as well as into Arizona's criminal justice system.

What Do We Offer?
~24-hour crisis intervention, advocacy, information & referral services by phone

• crisis intervention
  
• information
  
• referrals
  
• advocacy

~ Walk-in services (available Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm (closed from 12:00-1:00), in both English and Spanish)

• crisis intervention
  
• advocacy
  
• information
  
• referrals
  
• assistance with reporting
  
• no appointment necessary

~ 24-hour Sexual Assault Resource Service (hospital response) (available in both English and Spanish)

• hospital response
  
• advocacy
  
• medical forensic exams

~ Follow-up support and advocacy for survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones (available in both English and Spanish)

• advocacy
  
• information
  
• referrals

As a victim, you have a right to a medical-forensic exam. A medical-forensic exam is a comprehensive medical exam performed by a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner/Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SANE/SAFE) who is a specially trained Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Physician’s Assistant or Physician with advanced educational and clinical preparation. Click here to learn more about the exam in English or Spanish.