SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EXAM (SAFE) PROGRAM
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
751 S. Bascom Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
- Get to a location where you are out of danger.
- Contact a trusted support person for help.
This may be a sexual assault or domestic violence advocacy agency. - Seek health care at a SAFE Response Location. When you arrive ask for a SAFE nurse.
- SAFE exams for sexual assault may be provided up to 10 days after sexual assault.
- SAFE exams for domestic violence or intimate partner violence may be provided up to 14 days after assault.
- Seek counseling and support.
Survivors 12 years or older:
- Have the right to consent to medical and forensic care after sexual assault and intimate partner violence
- Have the right to choose whether to report to law enforcement immediately after assault
- Have the right to seek medical forensic care even if undecided whether to report to law enforcement at the time of the exam
FOR IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE:
(408) 793 – SAFE (7233)