Today there are more than 50 crisis centres in Norway. There are crisis centres in every county, and the number of centres in each county varies from one to eight. The size, organisation and ownership of the centres vary from one centre to another. All the shelters in Norway are based on public funding. Before 20% of the total budget was financed by the Local authorities and the remaining 80 % was financed by the Central government, through the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion. From 2011 the shelters will be financed 100 % by the municipalities.
Some crisis centres are also centres for victims of incest. The centres provide advice, support and counselling for persons who have been subjected to mistreatment, violence or abuse at home. They also provide temporary shelter for victims and their children. In addition to crisis centres there are two DIXI resource centres for rape victims, which provide assistance for victims of rape and their next-of-kin.

Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies develops and disseminates knowledge and competence in the field of violence and traumatic stress.
The centre’s objective is to help prevent and reduce the health-related and social consequences that can follow from exposure to violence and traumatic stress.
The centre emphasizes issues related to ethnicity and dimensions of age and gender.

The Minister of Justice together with the Minister for Children and Equality, and the Minister of Health and Care are establishing a separate committee on rape. The committee will identify factors that contribute to rapes not being reported, propose measures and strategies to increase the rate of reported rape, assess how alternative conflict resolution strategies can be applied in rape cases and assess the situation of rape victims, both female and male, with various disabilities, minority backgrounds, and experience of prostitution.