OUR Mission

The Tuscaloosa SAFE Center provides 24-hour compassionate, patient-centered healthcare, advocacy, and counseling services to those who have experienced sexual assault so that each person is empowered to begin the healing journey. Through community outreach and education programs, the SAFE Center promotes social change in West Alabama to end sexual violence.

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We are a community-based, collaborative agency, and our Center is designed to meet the emotional, medical and forensic needs of sexual assault survivors by:

• Providing compassionate care in a private environment – away from a hospital emergency room – to reduce further trauma to the patient;

• Provide quality medical care including assessment, treatment, forensic examination, and follow-up;

• Ensuring quality collection of evidence, including documentation, preservation, and chain of custody by utilizing trained and certified sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) to perform the exam;

• Working with community resource advocates, law enforcement and other service providers to meet the needs of sexual assault survivors;

• Providing expert testimony when needed if the patient chooses to seek justice.

There is no charge for our services at the SAFE Center.