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Check With Me First

In 2019 NHS London commissioned us to run an awareness project which will provide healthcare professionals with resources for treating potential survivors of sexual abuse, giving them the tools and knowledge to confidently engage with and best support these patients and people under their care.
We are collaborating with the NHS, our London Survivors Forum, and our member agencies to use our combined reach and experience in this field to put together our programme.
Following positive feedback from two pilot workshops that took place in 2019, we held two focus groups with NHS colleagues in January 2021 to learn more about how we can effectively promote this campaign, from the perspective of NHS practitioners. We heard that sexual abuse remains a taboo among many healthcare professionals and they often lack confidence when dealing with situations with survivors, feeling that they may provide an inadequate response. Through our project, we want to help change this.

Click here to register for the workshops

For more information, please email us at [email protected] 

Resources for Healthcare Services

Resources for Healthcare Services

Downloadable posters and resources for healthcare service providers. Read more

Published: 1st February, 2022

Updated: 17th March, 2023

Author: Claudia Williams

#CheckWithMeFirst Animation

#CheckWithMeFirst Animation

Watch our #CheckWithMeFirst animation, which outlines some of the key messaging of our trauma-informed campaign for healthcare professionals. Read more

Published: 1st December, 2021

Author: Claudia Williams

Service User Survey

Service User Survey

If you are a survivor, we want to hear about your experiences of NHS healthcare services so that we can help to make these services more accessible to survivors of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse. Read more

Published: 3rd August, 2021

Updated: 17th March, 2023

Author: Claudia Williams

Register for a workshop

Register for a workshop

Become a trauma-informed #CheckWithMeFirst Champion for our NHS awareness campaign. Read more

Published: 13th July, 2021

Updated: 17th March, 2023

Author: Claudia Williams

#CheckWithMeFirst Project

#CheckWithMeFirst Project

Learn more about The Survivors Trust's trauma-informed awareness project for the NHS – #CheckWithMeFirst. Read more

Published: 13th July, 2021

Updated: 17th March, 2023

Author: Claudia Williams

Resources for Survivors

Resources for Survivors

Patient information cards, a cervical screening guide and practical tips to help ease anxiety at healthcare appointments. Read more

Published: 21st April, 2021

Updated: 17th March, 2023

Author: Claudia Williams

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    The Survivors Trust is the largest umbrella agency for specialist sexual violence support services in Europe. Our member agencies provide information, advice, support and therapy to over 80,000 individual survivors each year. Our services work with victims and survivors of all ages, male and female, of all forms of sexual violence, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation.

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