Centres Against Sexual Assault
{{Short description|Rape crisis centres in Victoria, Australia}}
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The Centres Against Sexual Assault (CASAs) are non-profit, government-funded rape crisis centres in Victoria, Australia. Sexual Assault Services Victoria (SASVic, formerly CASA Forum){{cite web | title=Sexual Assault Services Victoria | website=Sexual Assault Services Victoria | date=24 May 2023 | url=https://www.sasvic.org.au/ | access-date=6 August 2023}} is the umbrella body for CASAs.{{cite web | title=Victorian CASA'S (Centres Against Sexual Assault) | website=Sexual Assault Crisis Line| date=6 August 2023 | url=https://www.sacl.com.au/links/victorian-centres-against-sexual-assault/ | access-date=6 August 2023}}
The first Centre Against Sexual Assault was established at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital in the mid-1990s under the leadership of Kate Gilmore.{{cite web | title=Kate Gilmore | website=Communities in Control | date=3 August 2023 | url=https://communitiesincontrol.com.au/speakers/kate-gilmore | access-date=6 August 2023}} {{as of|2009}}, it was the country's largest network of its sort.{{cite web | title=Sexual assault 'woven through Australia's landscape' | website=ABC News | date=10 March 2009|first=Amy |last=Simmons | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-03-10/sexual-assault-woven-through-australias-landscape/1614764 | access-date=6 August 2023}}
CASAs provide support and intervention to anyone who is a victim/survivor of sexual assault, as well as providing advocacy and education services.{{cite web | title=Victorian Centres Against Sexual Assault Forum | website=Better Health Channel | date=5 March 2021 | url=http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/serviceprofiles/victorian-CASA-service | access-date=6 August 2023}}