In 1984, we opened the first hospital-based program in Ontario to help victims of sexual assault.
Today, we're an international model for sexual assault treatment and research.
Every minute of every day, a woman or child in Canada is sexually assaulted.
Our Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Care Centre is there, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to help victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. Police and paramedics, rape crisis centres and other hospitals, know to bring victims of violence to Women's College Hospital.
It's no wonder. We've developed a sexual assault care model that experts from around the world come to learn about. And scientists in our Violence and Health Research Program collaborate with clinicians to develop policy that is exported throughout the world.