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1-800-656-HOPE National Sexual Assault Hotline

The Rape Abuse & Incest National Network, RAINN, operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE.  RAINN is a partnership of more than 700 rape crisis centers across the country and receives about 10,000 each month.

RAINN’s free hotline number enables victims anywhere in West Virginia to call the hotline and, through a telephone routing system that maintains the confidentiality of callers, be connected to the first available rape crisis center nearest them.  When a caller dials the hotline, a computer scans the area code and first three digits of her phone number and then automatically connects her to the nearest RAINN member center.  (All of West Virginia ’s rape crisis centers are members of RAINN.)  If the phone line at the nearest center is busy, the call is re-routed to the next closest center until a connection is made.

RAINN does not provide direct counseling, as that is handled through the rape crisis centers.  RAINN assists the centers by providing the technology for the phone routing system, publicizing the hotline number nationally, and drawing national attention to the issue of sexual violence since 1994.