Yarrow Place is the lead public health agency responding
to adult rape and sexual assault in South Australia.
A community service with a statewide mandate, auspiced
by the Women and Children’s Hospital, Yarrow
Place has four main roles:
providing direct services to people who
have been raped or sexually assaulted and who
were aged 16 years or more at the time of the
assault.
providing a lead agency role in SA. This
includes advocacy in relation to key issues,
public policy, planning and service delivery
in the area of sexual violence against adults.
resourcing other agencies and workers to
provide services to victim/survivors; and