Alachua County - Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center
The Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center offers help to anyone who is a victim or survivor of violence. You do NOT have to report to law enforcement to receive help. Help is free and private.
Services Include:
- Immediate outreach to victims of sexual battery
- Face-to-face and telephone counseling
- Support groups
- Accompany and support victims through criminal justice proceedings
- Transportation to court appearances and other appointments related to the victimization
- Assist with application process for Victims Compensation and relocation for Sexual Assault Victims
- Assistance with Protective Injunctions
- Emergency assistance with urgent special needs
- Personal advocacy
- Information and referral
- Community education, speeches, and consultation
- Network with other victim service providers and state organization
- Outreach services provided in the Gainesville Police Department
Please call or visit the website to learn more.
24 Hour Sexual Assault Helpline: 352.264.6760
Toll Free 24 Hour Sexual Assault Helpline: 866.252.5439
TDD/TYY: Please call the Florida Relay Service at 711
Bradford County Outreach Office:
403 Georgia Street
Starke, FL 32091
Union County Outreach Office:
410 W Main Street
Lake Butler, FL 32054
Service Location
218 SE 24th ST
Gainesville, FL 32641
United States
352.264.6760
Provider
Alachua County offers a victim services and rape crisis center that provides:
- Immediate outreach to victims of sexual battery and violent crime 24/7. Accompany victims of sexual battery to the hospital during the initial rape examination.
- Face-to-face individual counseling for victims and their families.
- Support groups that range for female survivors of sexual assault, male survivors of sexual assault, LGBTQ+ survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence, adults molested as children, teen girls ages 13-16 who are survivors of sexual abuse, and family/friends of those killed by violent crime.
- Confidential HIV/AIDS testing.
- Accompany and support through any criminal proceedings that may follow (testimony, deposition, trial, sentencing, etc.).
- Assist victims in filing for Victim Compensation and/or sexual battery relocation.
- Community education, consultation, and speeches.
Public Email
lkalt@alachuacounty.us
Address
218 SE 24th Street
Gainesville, FL 32641
United States
866.252.5439