All professionals develop clear protocols to ensure the safety of their clients as a high priority in the case of disclosure of sexual violence. Given that it takes so long for women to report and get a positive response, there are services which provide long-term support. If funding constraints prevent counselling to survivors beyond six weeks, the long term health impacts will not be redressed and the subsequent costs of health burden will be greater. State and hospital registers of injury should collect information about the reasons behind self-harm. Such practices are supported by current feminist counselling frameworks.
Government recognise the long-term impacts on children lives of childhood sexual violence.
Government recognise the introduction of brief intervention strategies for sexual violence in place of long-term counselling services may be detrimental to survivors. Youth suicide prevention programs recognise primary causes for suicide and self-harm include childhood sexual violence and make policy redirections to compensate. We are housed out of the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota .