Reporting

• Brown students can call the Sexual Assault Response Line (401-863-6000) for immediate medical, counseling or police assistance.
• If you want to report the crime, notify Brown's Department of Public Safety immediately at 401-863-4111.
• For some, reporting the crime can help regain a sense of personal power and control.
• A campus advocate will be available to accompany you. (More information on this resource below.)
• If you are away from Brown, call 911 or the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE.

Evidence

• Try to preserve all evidence of the assault. Avoid drinking, bathing, showering, douching, brushing your teeth, or changing your clothes. Evidence can be collected at an emergency room and you can decide later whether or not you want to press criminal charges.
• Try to write down, or have a friend write down, everything you can remember about the incident including a physical description of the perpetrator, their identity if you know it, and the use of threats or force.
• You can have evidence collected (Rape Kit) at a nearby hospital and decide later whether you want to press charges.
• Collecting physical evidence must occur within 96 hours (4 days) at a local emergency room. See details on hospitals below.

All services, except evidence collection and drug testing, can be provided for Brown students by Student Health Services.

Preventive Treatments

Pregnancy

If you are concerned about pregnancy, you can prevent pregnancy by taking emergency contraception within 120 hours (5 days) of the assault. Emergency contraception is most effective when taken as soon as possible.

HIV

HIV prophylaxis treatment needs to be started within 72 hours.

Date Rape Drugs

If you think you were drugged or consumed a sedative-like substance, ask the medical provider to take a urine sample. Date rape drugs like GHB and Rohypnol are more likely to be detected in urine than in blood. If you still have remnants of the drink, save them for analysis.

Timing

Screening for date rape drugs can be done up to 72 hours after the incident but is optimally done within 12 hours. Since many of these drugs clear the system quickly, a negative test result does not necessarily mean that no drug was involved.

Medical Care

You can decide what medical care you want or don't want. It's important to discuss STIs, date rape drug screening and pregnancy prevention with a medical provider.

Get help by calling one of these sexual assault resources:

• Consider getting medical care. You can go to Student Health Services or your own provider. Even if you think that you do not have any physical injuries, it's important to get medical care to discuss STIs and pregnancy prevention.
• Talk with a counselor who is trained to assist victims of sexual assault.
• Try to write down, or have a friend write down, everything you can remember about the incident including a physical description of the perpetrator, their identity if you know it, and the use of threats or force.
• You have the right to file a complaint on campus (if the person who assaulted you was another Brown student) as well as press charges off campus with the police. A campus advocate can support you through either process.
• Contact the SHARE Advocates in Health Promotion for confidential support. (bwell@health.brown.edu). Help is available for students who have experienced sexual violence and abuse in a relationship. Confidential services include support for a survivor or the friends of a survivor, help exploring options to address the incident (such as filing a complaint, if that is the student's choice) and educational programs for the student community. When you get support, you do not have to pursue any specific course of action and no action will be taken unless it's something you choose.
• Consider accessing support from any of these on and off campus resources.
• Visit the Title IX page for information on Brown's Sexual and Gender-based Misconduct Policy.