Beira’s Place offers a range of free training courses that we deliver online or in person in your workplace. Our training includes a half-day session on Vicarious Trauma for workers who may be supporting survivors. Please contact us to discuss training if you are interested.

You can also phone our office on 0131 526 3944 Monday to Friday between 10am and 5pm or email us on support@beirasplace.org.uk for information or advice on supporting a survivor or to discuss possible training for your team or workplace.

You can also complete our online referral form below.

Beira's Place Client Referral Form

If you are making a referral to Beira's Place for a woman you're working with, please provide the following information where possible.

Client details *

Please confirm that the woman’s residential address is in Edinburgh and the Lothians *

Address (if possible)

Telephone number *

Email address (if relevant)

Preferred method of contact, e.g. phone, email, text? *

Have you discussed this with the woman and have her consent to refer her to Beira's Place? *

Is it safe for us to identify ourselves and/or leave a message when we phone the woman? *

Does the woman have any access needs, e.g. wheelchair access? *

Does the woman need an interpreter? If so, which language? *

Agency details

Name of worker *

Name of agency *

Agency telephone number *

Agency email address *

Please ensure you have completed all of the fields and press submit. One of our team will be in touch soon.

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Resources

Explaining the assessment process
We carry out this assessment with every woman who comes to the centre and there are several reasons why the process is important. You don’t have to answer the questions if you prefer not to, and we guarantee that you will get the same service from us whether you choose to answer or ...
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Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse
In 2008, Health in Mind and the Scottish Government produced a booklet for professionals working with childhood sexual abuse survivors. It was written by Dr Sarah Nelson and Sue Hampton and was entitled ‘Yes You Can’. In Chapter One of the booklet, the authors cited the formal definition of child sexual abuse ...
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How we work with trauma
Beira’s Place – Edinburgh Women’s Sexual Assault Support Centre – is a single sex, women only service for survivors of all forms of sexual violence, sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation. Services are for women aged 16 and over and we provide support no matter when the sexual violence or abuse happened in ...
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Intimate Partner Sexual Violence
Domestic abuse is usually described as “physical, emotional, financial or sexual abuse” but the focus for service provision, training workers, news articles and even information for women who are living with, or have lived with an abuser, still seems to be on physical abuse and more recently, coercive and controlling behaviour. Coercive ...
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For Professionals

Beira’s Place offers a range of free training courses that we deliver online or in person in your workplace. Our training includes a half-day session on Vicarious Trauma for workers who may be supporting survivors. Please contact us to discuss training if you are interested.

Beira's Place Client Referral Form

Resources

Explaining the assessment process

Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse

How we work with trauma

Intimate Partner Sexual Violence

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