The program provides confidential counseling and advocacy for victims, including individual and group counseling, accompaniment to a hospital immediately after an assault, information and referral for campus or community resources, and general assistance to victims, their families, and friends by providing information and support. If requested by the victim and if reasonably available, the University will provide modifications to living arrangements for the victim, if residing in University housing. Also, if requested by the victim and if reasonably available, rearrangement of academic class schedules for the victim may be provided. The Women's Center Sexual Assault Victim Advocate can be contacted at 348-5040 or by calling University police after regular business hours. Persons eligible for these services include students, faculty and staff of the University of Alabama.
All services are free and confidential.
Group Sessions are offered for Survivors of Sexual Assault and Childhood Sexual Abuse, and a Relationship Violence Education group is also offered. The University of Alabama Women's Resource Center provides a Victim Advocate Program. This program provides needed support in a time of crisis to victims of sexual assault and relationship violence. The advocate will help victims, their families and friends by providing information and support. For example, modifications to living arrangements for the victim and the accused, if residing in on-campus housing, may be provided if requested and if reasonably available.