Let these steps guide you.
Step 1
Call 715-425-6443 or 866-650-SART and ask to talk to the Nurse Examiner or Advocate on call.
Step 2
Tell the Nurse Examiner or Advocate what time you can meet at the SART Center.
- Like scheduling an appointment, you decide what works best for you. Our Forensic Nurse Examiners and Advocates are available night or day.
Step 3
Go to the SART Center preferably with a friend. If you need a ride, please let us know.
Don't worry about getting the Forensic Nurse Examiner or Advocate out of bed. They are on call for you alone. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain, such as, the opportunity to begin healing.
If there are severe injuries that require immediate medical attention, go to the local emergency room in Baldwin, Hudson, River Falls or New Richmond. We will come and care for you there. If a victim is seen in the emergency room by hospital staff, the hospital will bill the victim for those services.
Remember, your health and safety comes first.
A, B, C's
A–Airway: Breathing difficulties (or strangulation)
- Even if you were strangled several days ago and can't see any marks on your neck or feel the injury, you should go to the Emergency Department at your local hospital. Victims of strangulation have died up to several weeks after the assault.
B– Bleeding: Uncontrolled, profuse bleeding
- If you have vaginal bleeding that is soaking a sanitary pad, please go to the Emergency Department at your local hospital.
C– Consciousness: Unconsciousness due a head injury
- Did you hit your head and/or get knocked out? We'll see you in the Emergency Department.
- If you passed out because of alcohol or the possibility of other drugs (i.e. date rape drugs), we'll see you at the SART Center.
S–Safety: Concern for safety
- Victims who are "tweaking" or coming down from drugs or are uncooperative and combative for whatever reason, please go to the Emergency Department.
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