About Us
Working to Eradicate Sexual Violence
- Empowering individuals and organisations
- Enabling positive change through: assessment, intervention and support
- Transforming working cultures and lives
Purple Leaf is a trading name of West Mercia Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (WMRSASC).
WMRSASC has been supporting survivors of all types of sexual abuse and sexual violence for over 35 years and provides a range of services including advocacy, therapy, online and a helpline service.
What We Offer
Education and Training
Purple Leaf provides accredited and non-accredited training and awareness raising sessions to professionals working in the sexual violence sector or aligned fields.
We also deliver our Purple Leaf Education Programme which provides 10 – 25 year olds with education and information designed to increase access to high quality sexual violence information and support.
Assessment and Intervention Service
Purple Leaf provide advice, risk and need assessments, and interventions for children and young people (aged five to eighteen) who have experienced or been impacted by and/or exhibited inappropriate, problematic, or harmful sexual behaviours. This includes specialist AIM assessments, psychosocial and education support and advice in relation to sibling sexual behaviours.
Consultative Supervision
Purple Leaf private support services. Our team will provide you with a consistent, agreed, safe and confidential space to talk about what you’ve experienced.
If someone tells you they have been sexually harassed or abused at work
If you are working within an organisation you will have a process or policy to follow. It is important that you are honest about what you will do with the information that has been shared with you. The person who has disclosed to you needs to know that you are trustworthy. Being honest about what will happen with any information that has been shared with you, is an important part of this. Do not make promises you cannot keep particularly where this relates to safeguarding. Purple Leaf work within an empowerment model. This model focuses on being led by what the person making the disclosure wants you to do, providing them with information so that they can be in control (as much as possible) and to make informed choices as to what the next steps might be. Believing, being non-judgemental and being genuine in your response to their disclosure are all vital aspects in your response.
Purple Leaf can provide you with support and guidance to help you with this process.
Purple Leaf is Trading name of West Mercia Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (WMRSASC)
WMRSASC is a charitable company limited by guarantee in England & Wales - Charity Registration 1136677, Company Registration 07083844.
Registered office: Kendall Wadley Chartered Accountants, 71 Graham Road, Malvern, WR14 2JS (not part of WMRSASC premises)