Advocacy

KCSARC offers comprehensive services for anyone who has experienced sexual assault recently or in the past, which includes sexual abuse, rape, incest, date rape and acquaintance rape, sexual exploitation and molestation. KCSARC serves adults, teens and children who are residents of King County, at no cost. KCSARC provides survivors with tools that support their own strengths, encourage them to make their own decisions, and empower them to regain control of their lives through their individual healing process.

Services are also available to family, friends or partners who are impacted by the sexual assault of a loved one. There is no fee for KCSARC services to victims/survivors or their related support people.

Frequently Asked Questions

When calling KCSARC at 425.226.5062 a client can expect to be greeted by a trained intake specialist who will ask questions to gather information. These questions are important in achieving a successful outcome during the process of coordinating and referring a client to various system components. The four case management components are: (1) Intake or Assessment, (2) Referral Services, (3) Case Monitoring, and (4) Advocacy (Links to medical, legal, education and prevention, therapy, parent education/enhancement, parent child interaction training, resource line).

What's In a Word?

You will see the words "victim" and "survivor" used interchangeably throughout our website. We do so because individuals refer to the impact of the assault on them in different ways at different times during their healing process.

It can be validating to refer to oneself as the victim of sexual assault at various times depending on the context of the conversation. To state that you have been victimized is to validate the truth and the reality of the assault that was perpetrated upon you. To refer to oneself in that way or to another by the use of the word "victim" is not to suggest that this is the whole of one's identity. It is simply an acknowledgement of the crime that occurred. Using the word "survivor" is to state that you have survived a sexual assault. Many people prefer the use of this word because it suggests a more powerful place of being. One who has survived, has not been defeated. Our use of these words interchangeably is done to honor the preferences of our clients. We do not intend on using one in favor of the other, or to discount the importance of one over the other.