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Provides medical and legal advocacy for victims of sexual violence. Can accompany victims to hospital, emergency room, police station, and court.

The Domestic Violence Advocacy program staff connects with the community to identify people impacted by domestic violence. They assist with safety planning and immediate support, offer information about Anew: Building Beyond Violence and Abuse, and related resources as well as facilitate access to appropriate Anew: Building Beyond Violence and Abuse programs and services.

The Domestic Violence Program provides a wide range of counseling and supportive services for survivors of domestic violence. The program's top priority is to keep victims and their vulnerable family members safe. They operate under a trauma-informed, strength-based model that emphasizes empowerment and independent decision-making. Participants are given information, encouragement, and support in order to rebuild their lives and achieve safety, self-sufficiency, and peace for themselves and their families.

Mujeres Latinas en Accion offers crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, adult and child therapy, legal and medical advocacy, community education, professional and volunteer trainings, and referrals to other resources.

Northwest Center Against Sexual Assault provides legal advocacy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, wherever needed. Advocates can support survivors throughout the legal process, regardless of their decision to report or their participation with law enforcement. They provide you with information about your legal rights and options, including information about relevant Illinois laws.

The Humboldt Park Outreach Program (HPOP) focuses its bilingual services on adults and children living in the community to increase their safety and self-esteem and to help them better understand the resources available to assist them. HPOP is a community-based counseling outreach program for those victims of domestic violence who either have left a shelter and begun independent living or have not yet made the decision to leave their abuser. Clients who are deemed eligible for this program after the intake process may also access free diapers from the agency.

Chicago Torture Justice Center (CTJC) confronts the isolation inherent in navigating the criminal legal system by organizing supporters to show up in solidarity at survivors' court dates. In doing so, they hold survivors and their family members in the community as their experiences evolve and take shape within the constructs of an oppressive criminal legal system. They strategize with survivors and advocates to guide the ongoing work of their movement for justice.

Northwest Center Against Sexual Assault offers medical advocacy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at hospital emergency rooms. Whenever a survivor presents at the hospital for treatment, the hospital calls the hotline, and an advocate is sent out to sit with the survivor. The advocate offers emotional support, provides information on sexual violence, and gives any necessary referrals.

Ascend Justice offers free help with legal problems commonly experienced by survivors, such as: need reasonable accommodations at work, break their leases or change their locks, screening and referrals for bankruptcy along with crime victims' compensation.

Centers For New Horizons Violence Prevention and Intervention (VPI) department has a comprehensive, trauma-informed approach to violence prevention that works to reduce the impact of continued exposure to traumatic stress from community violence.

To support healing and prevent domestic violence, Mujeres offers crisis intervention, a 24-hour crisis line, individual and group counseling, adult and child therapy, court advocacy, community education, professional and volunteer training, and referrals to shelters and other resources.

The Domestic Violence Law Practice at NSLAC provides free domestic violence legal services to at-risk survivors. Domestic violence is any systematic behavior - whether physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual - used to gain power and control over another person. Their team uses a careful trauma-informed approach to mitigate the effects of domestic violence on survivors and their families.

The resiliency services team is composed of two departments: victim advocacy and case management. Victim advocates walk with families and individuals directly affected by violence. They attend to the physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual well-being of victims on their journey towards healing. Case managers work with participants to achieve their employment, educational, and housing goals. They provide connections to community resources, intense engagement, advocacy, and mentorship.

Institute for Nonviolence Chicago provides victim advocates who show up to support victims and their families either at the scene or the hospital. Advocates stay close to victims and their allies to provide counseling, medical care, financial and legal support-whatever it takes to manage trauma and ease suffering.

Incarnation- St. Terrance Catholic Church provides a support group for survivors of domestic violence.

Target Area's team supports victims of crime and violence, providing emotional support, resources, and guidance through difficult times.

Chicago Survivors provides support for family members of victims of homicide through crisis response, case management, counseling, family support, and accompaniment. Family members may be accompanied by a liaison in hospital or medical examiners' office settings. Services are survivor-shaped, trauma-informed, family-centered, and delivered primarily in survivors' homes.

Mujeres Latinas en Accion offers crisis intervention, individual and group counseling, adult and child therapy, legal and medical advocacy, community education, professional and volunteer trainings, and referrals to other resources.

The resiliency services team is composed of two departments: victim advocacy and case management. Victim advocates walk with families and individuals directly affected by violence. They attend to the physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual well-being of victims on their journey towards healing. Case managers work with participants to achieve their employment, educational, and housing goals. They provide connections to community resources, intense engagement, advocacy, and mentorship.

Life Span's domestic violence legal program is staffed by 15 attorneys, four paralegals, and four criminal court advocates who have expertise and years of experience in contested family law cases and criminal court advocacy. They operate a number of innovative and collaborative programs specifically created to reach underserved populations.Life Span assists with the following: divorce and parentage, child and spousal support, civil no contact orders, Allocation of Parental Responsibilities and Parenting Time (formerly called Custody and Visitation), and more.

Chicago Cultural Performing Arts & Media Alliance has developed a comprehensive violence prevention strategy where neighborhood institutions and community leaders come together to coordinate resources and services to make a safer community. Street outreach workers will be employed to mediate conflicts and prevent retaliatory violence between those who are at risk to commit or to become the victims of firearm violence. Victim services workers/advocates helps families and victims of violence recover from physical and emotional trauma caused by the violence by empowering them with skills, services, and opportunities. Case management services also offered.

Crisis Center of South Suburbia court advocates inform victims of domestic or dating violence of their rights under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act, serve as a liaison in the judicial system, prepare orders of protection, and provide follow-up services to review safety plans and court cases. Informational materials about other legal remedies and victim resources such as Crime Victims' Compensation, Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act, Safe Homes Act and Automated Victim Notification are also provided.

Life Span attorneys provide civil legal services to victims of sexual assault and their families in order to provide them with safety and perpetrator accountability. Legal Services covered include divorce, child custody/visitation/child support, orders of protection, civil no contact orders, and more.

To support healing and prevent domestic violence, Mujeres offers crisis intervention, a 24-hour crisis line, individual and group counseling, adult and child therapy, court advocacy, community education, professional and volunteer training, and referrals to shelters and other resources.

The resiliency services team is composed of two departments: victim advocacy and case management. Victim advocates walk with families and individuals directly affected by violence. They attend to the physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual well-being of victims on their journey towards healing. Case managers work with participants to achieve their employment, educational, and housing goals. They provide connections to community resources, intense engagement, advocacy, and mentorship.