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Stuart House is an internationally recognized, model program that was created by the Rape Treatment Center in Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, with support form SHARE, to serve the special needs of sexually abused children.
About one out of every for girls and one out of every eight boys are sexually abused before they reach eighteen years of age. More than half of all rape victims are under eighteen years of age. In the traditional system, when sexually abused children and their families seek help, they are often taken to six different locations and subjected to as many as a dozen interviews in cold, institutional settings. Few receive needed medical care, expert forensic examinations, or therapy services and many feel re-victimized by the system.
To remedy these problems, Stuart House provides a one stop service center where child victims can receive all of the services they need in a single location - a facility that was designed to provide a therapeutic environment for children. Police officers, prosecutors, and child protection workers have offices at Stuart House and work as a team to help child victims. In addition, children receive expert, forensic medical examinations and comprehensive treatment services that are so crucial to their recovery from the trauma of sexual abuse. All of these services are provided free of charge.