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Learn More About How We Can Help You
Contact our 24/7 hotline:
800-773-8570
YWCA Delaware's Sexual Assault Response Center (SARC) provides comprehensive, free and confidential crisis services to sexual assault survivors and domestic violence survivors aged 12 and older and their non-offending family members, friends and partners throughout the state of Delaware.
SARC is committed to providing healing, hope and empowerment to individuals whose lives have been impacted by sexual violence or domestic violence, whether the assault happened yesterday or many years ago. If you or someone you care about has been sexually assaulted or experienced domestic violence, reaching out for help can be the first step toward recovery and healing.
For immediate assistance and information on your options, call our crisis helpline at (800) 773-8570. SARC assists survivors in need of medical, police and legal accompaniment, supportive telephone counseling, aftercare follow up services, individual and group counseling, as well as information and referral to vital community services.
SARC is committed to providing emergency sexual assault and domestic violence responses to all Delawareans who need it. Please note that while the SARC helpline is available 24/7, the wait times for specialized services after regular business hours (6 a.m. to 6 p.m. excluding holidays) may be delayed due to increased requests for our services.
Services Include:
24/7 Sexual Assault Response Helpline (800) 773-8570
24/7 Medical and Legal Accompaniment
Information and Referral to Resources
Aftercare Follow-Up Case Management Services
Individual Trauma-Informed Counseling
Support Groups
Community Outreach and Education
Center Locations: New Castle, Wilmington & Georgetown
These services are free and confidential and offered to all community members.
Join our free support group open to all survivors of domestic violence or sexual violence
Led by trauma-informed DV/SV SARC Counselor Andrew Ramsaran, the group meets bi-weekly on Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:00 PM at our Home Life Management Center, located at 709 N. Madison Street, Wilmington, DE.
Survivors can expect a supportive, non-judgmental space to:
• Learn grounding and coping strategies
• Share and listen in a healing community
• Build emotional resilience and empowerment
No registration required.
Dates: 7/24/25, 8/7/25, 8/21/25, 9/4/25, 9/18/25, 10/2, 10/16, and 10/30.
About Week Without Violence
In partnership with World YWCA, Week Without Violence is the YWCA movement’s opportunity to come together and advocate for a safer world for women, girls and families. This year’s theme, Safe Beginnings: Protecting Mothers, Nurturing Futures, is all about how we can support moms and their children as they build hopeful, healthier futures. Throughout the week, we’ll be sharing stories from real YWCA program participants to amplify their voices, honor their resilience, and inspire action.
Week Without Violence has been a YWCA national campaign since 1995 – 30 years!
Join us from
October 20-24, 2025
As we raise awareness, elevate survivor voices, talk with policymakers, and more with a common goal: centering survivors so that together, we can end gender-based violence.
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Tackling racial and systemic disparities in maternal and infant outcomes, toxic stress, and ensuring every mother has access to respectful, quality care.
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Uplifting the strength of pregnant survivors and advocating for safety, support, and trauma-informed care during one of life’s most vulnerable times.
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Highlights how access to safe, stable, and affordable housing is essential for mothers and families to thrive. Explores how domestic violence, eviction, and systemic inequities disrupt the ability to parent in peace—and calls for housing justice as a cornerstone of family well-being.
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Discussing the barriers that mothers face to leaving domestic violence situations.
Include financial abuse as a barrier to mother’s leaving domestic violence situations, this will help tie in our partners at Allstate.
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Focusing on the critical role of legal systems in protecting mothers and their children from domestic violence. While laws exist to safeguard survivors, many mothers—especially those who are Black, Brown, immigrant, low-income, or disabled—face overwhelming barriers when seeking justice. From navigating custody battles to securing restraining orders, the legal system can be both a lifeline and a labyrinth.
Are you passionate about making a difference in your community?
Help Survivors by Becoming a SARA
Our SARC Locations
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YWCA Delaware SARC Wilmington Office & Healing Space
YWCA Delaware
Home-Life Management Center709 N. Madison Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
24/7 Helpline: (800) 773-8570
(302) 273-130 -
YWCA Delaware SARC Office at The Healthy Village at Saint Francis Hospital
701 N Clayton St, Wilmington, DE 19805
24/7 Helpline: (800) 773-8570
(302) 273-1300 -
YWCA Delaware Sexual Assault Response Center (SARC) New Castle Office
Corporate Commons
15 Reads Way, Suite 200
New Castle, DE 19720
24/7 Helpline: (800) 773-8570
(302) 273-1300 -
YWCA Delaware Sexual Assault Response Center (SARC) Georgetown Office
Georgetown Professional Park
20123 Office Circle
Georgetown, DE 19947
(302) 273-1300
Identify Abuse ↘
This is the first step. Ask yourself if any of these signs point to your relationship health.
Red Flags
Unhealthy Relationship Checkpoints ⏺
Does your partner…
Get jealous easily or accuse you of having an affair?
Have abuse in family history?
Throw objects at you or destroy your property?
Make you account for every moment you are away?
Restrain you?
Ridicule you?
Threaten to hurt you, your children, or your pets?
Manipulate you with lies or promises?
Threaten to or force you to have sex?
Make you feel you don’t have the right to say “no” or disagree?
Isolate you from family, friends, work?
Make all the decisions in the home for you?
Have previous contact with the justice system?
Control all of the money?
Have weapons?
Green Flags
Healthy Relationship Checkpoints ⏺
Does your partner…
View you as an equal?
Respect you and treat you fairly?
Make you feel safe (emotionally and physically)?
Discuss disagreements peacefully?
Allow the relationship to go at your pace?
Act as a positive role model for your children?
Value your opinions?
Communicate openly and honestly?
Support your goals in life?
Make family and money decisions together with you?
Compromise?
Have a positive image of family?
Make your friends and family feel comfortable?
2024 SARC
Annual Report
How To Get Help ↘
Emergency Help
If you are in need of emergency shelter due to a domestic violence situation, contact the YWCA Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Crisis Hotline (800-773-8570) or call 911 for local law enforcement who will in turn contact the YWCA.
Referrals
If you are an emergency shelter or outside agency making a referral for housing, call 833-346-3233. If you or someone you know is homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless, please dial Centralized Intake at 1-833-346-3233.
“I am in need of services…”
If you are need of court advocacy or case management, no matter whether you are a resident of our facility or an outreach survivor, contact the YWCA of Delaware at 800-773-8570