Resilience

Brunch & Bowl Fundraising Event

Grab your friends, bring your appetite, and lace up those bowling shoes—Resilience is thrilled to invite you to Brunch & Bowl, a fun-filled afternoon of strikes, spares, and support for a powerful cause! 

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Resilience is hiring!

Resilience is looking for dedicated people! Check out our Careers and Internships page for more information.

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New Trauma Therapy Support Groups & Workshops

Resilience Trauma Therapists offer many workshops and support groups for survivors on a wide variety of topics. View our current list of offerings and join us!

All trauma therapy services at Resilience are free and confidential. Services are offered to survivors and their non-offending loved ones. Resilience provides therapy for survivors ages 12 and older and many services are offered in English and Spanish. Therapists provide trauma-informed care with evidence-based modalities.

 

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Resilience Can Help

We Are Here for You

If you need support, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We can assist with:

  • • Seeking medical treatment in the ER after a sexual assault
  • • Filing an emergency order of protection
  • • Making a police report
  • • Accessing ongoing medical treatment
  • • Understanding your rights and options

All of our services are free and confidential.

Call us at 312-443-9603
Email us at info@ourresilience.org

We will contact you as soon as possible.

Programs & Services

Regardless of when and where a survivor’s journey begins—in the ER following an assault, or through a phone call for help to make sense of something that happened 20 years ago—Resilience is here every step of the way.

Through our trauma therapy program, medical advocacy, legal advocacy, and Resilience Training Institute, Resilience is here to help survivors during their time of need.

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Need Immediate Help?

Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline:  1-888-293-2080
RAINN Hotline:  1-800-656-HOPE

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Different Ways to Get Involved

Are you passionate about ending sexual violence and empowering survivors? There are many ways to get involved with Resilience! Become a Volunteer Medical Advocate, join our Board of Directors or Associate Board, assist us with special events, or volunteer your time with the Our Music My Body campaign.

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What you need to know

Events

Come together with other advocates and survivors working to end sexual violence. From galas to demonstrations, show your support by attending a Resilience event.

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Myths & Facts

Did you know that a great deal of harm is done, often unintentionally, to survivors because the people around them believe the myths that surround rape and sexual violence?

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Professional Training Resources

Research shows providers’ responses can be critical in shaping the course of healing for survivors. Via its trainings and the Resilience Training Institute, Resilience provides resources and tools to professionals to improve the care of sexual assault survivors.

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RESILIENCE Mission

Resilience is an Illinois not-for-profit organization made up of many individuals with two primary goals: to assure that survivors of sexual assault are treated
with dignity and compassion, and to effect changes in the way the legal system, medical institutions, and society as a whole respond to survivors.

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