This page has been printed from the Yarrow Place website http://www.yarrowplace.sa.gov.au
Student Information
Yarrow Place is a part of the Children, Youth & Women's Health
Service and is funded by the SA Department of Health. The service
is auspiced by the Women's & Children's Hospital.
Yarrow Place regularly receives requests from secondary and tertiary
students for information related to Yarrow Place's activities, roles
and function as well as information related to rape and sexual assault.
In response to these enquiries we have developed the following information
package. You can read this information online and use what you require
in your studies. Alternatively you can download the whole package
as a PDF for printing later. Please acknowledge Yarrow Place as
the source of your information.
Different students are interested in different topics. Some are
doing health assignments and they are generally more interested
in the impacts of sexual assault and the services available to people
who have been assaulted. Others are doing legal studies and may
be more interested in the law and criminal justice system. Others
again might be more interested in causes of sexual assault or strategies
to prevent it.
We aim to provide:
- introductory information about some of the most commonly asked
questions
- information about where to find out more about each topic
The following information is not designed to help people who have
been raped or sexually assaulted, or people who want to help someone
who has been sexually assaulted.
If you want to talk to someone about something that has happened
to you or to someone you know, click here
for more information.
A note on language
There is a range of sexual offences, ranging from sexual harassment
to rape. We usually use the term 'rape and sexual assault' to cover
the whole continuum. We do this because the word 'rape' used by
itself leaves out the other kinds of sexual assault. Some people
who have been raped, however, do not feel as though the term 'sexual
assault' adequately describes what happened to them. So we use both.
Anyone regardless of age, gender, sexuality, culture, ability
or religion can be sexually assaulted or raped. Most victims of
rape and sexual assault are female and most perpetrators are male.
However, we have tried not to use gender-specific language in this
information.
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