Middlesex County To Expand Trauma-Informed Response Services

EDISON, NJ — The Middlesex County Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) is expanding their trauma-informed response services, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone announced Monday.

SART will now provide increased access to care for victims of sexual assault throughout the County of Middlesex. SART services are available 24/7 to victims ages 13 years or older who report a sexual assault within five days of an incident, Ciccone said.

The team consists of a confidential sexual assault advocate, a forensic nurse examiner, and a law enforcement officer. SART services will now be available in all the Hackensack Meridian Health Emergency Departments located within Middlesex County.

If you or someone you know has been the victim of a sexual assault within the past five days and would like to have an exam completed, you can visit one of six locations and be seen by a forensic nurse examiner to have a SAFE Kit collected.

Locations include:

• Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center Emergency Department, New Brunswick
• Penn Medicine at Princeton Medical Center Emergency Department, Plainsboro
• Raritan Bay Medical Center Emergency Department, Perth Amboy
• Raritan Bay Medical Center Emergency Department, Old Bridge
• JFK Medical Center Emergency Department, Edison, and;
• The Center for Empowerment, Edison (by appointment only).

To Activate the SART, call 732-745-3271 or your local police department or by arriving at one of the five Emergency departments listed above.