Oct 5, 2021 | Articles, Newsletter
This year, we’re continuing to celebrate the people who make #OurResilience possible and telling the stories of some of our incredible clients, staff, volunteers, and supporters. It is more important now than ever to embrace and celebrate what connects us: our...
Sep 14, 2021 | Articles, Newsletter
This year, we’re continuing to celebrate the people who make #OurResilience possible and telling the stories of some of our incredible clients, staff, volunteers, and supporters. It is more important now than ever to embrace and celebrate what connects us: our...
Aug 19, 2021 | Articles, Newsletter
This year, we’re continuing to celebrate the people who make #OurResilience possible and telling the stories of some of our incredible clients, staff, volunteers, and supporters. It is more important now more than ever to embrace and celebrate what connects us: our...
Jul 13, 2021 | Articles, Newsletter
This year, we’re continuing to celebrate the people who make #OurResilience possible and telling the stories of some of our incredible clients, staff, volunteers, and supporters. It is more important now than ever to embrace and celebrate what connects us: our...
Jun 11, 2021 | Articles, Newsletter
This year, we’re continuing to celebrate the people who make #OurResilience possible and telling the stories of some of our incredible clients, staff, volunteers, and supporters. It is more important now than ever to embrace and celebrate what connects us: our...
Mar 11, 2021 | Articles, Newsletter
Kate Lawler is the Director of the Pathways Program at Swedish Hospital now part of NorthShore. The Pathways Program was developed to strengthen the hospital’s ability to identify and assist patients who are survivors of interpersonal violence. Pathways has served...
Dec 4, 2020 | Articles
Meet Sarah E. King, the vice president of Resilience’s Associate Board. Continue to read our interview with Sarah. This year, we’re continuing to celebrate the people who make #OurResilience possible and telling the stories of some of our incredible clients, staff,...
Oct 8, 2020 | Articles, News
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) has released a new report, Too Little, Too Late?, analyzing publicly available crime data from 2010 – 2019 and the Chicago Police Department’s response. They found that survivors who reported to the...
Jul 15, 2020 | Articles, Press
Resilience Prevention Educator Emma Gonzalez was quoted in an article published in Block Club Chicago on Monday, July 13, 2020. Click here to read the full article.
Jan 27, 2020 | Articles, Press
Resilience was recently featured in Chicago Parent on January 15, 2020 in an article about talking to youth about catcalling. Click here to read the full article: https://www.chicagoparent.com/learn/general-parenting/how-to-explain-catcalling-to-kids/.
Dec 10, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
Resilience’s Director of Programs and Public Policy Sarah Layden was quoted in an article published in the Chicago Tribune on December 10, 2019. Resilience’s Director of Advocacy Services Mariá Balata raised the issue covered in the article to the Illinois...
Dec 5, 2019 | Articles, Press
Resilience was featured in an article and video published on November 27, 2019 in FOX 32. Click here to read the full article:...
Dec 2, 2019 | Articles, Press
Resilience was mentioned in an article published in the Eater on November 27, 2019. To read the full article, please click here:...
Dec 2, 2019 | Articles, Press
Resilience Director of Programs and Public Policy Sarah Layden was interviewed in an article published on ABC7 Eyewitness News on November 27, 2019. To read the full article, click here:...
Oct 24, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
Resilience Director of Education & Training Lillian Cartwright was featured in an article and audio recording in the City Bureau on September 26, 2019. Lillian was representing Resilience on a panel of speakers addressing the topic of how journalists can improve...
Oct 24, 2019 | Articles, News, Press, Video
In an interview published on FOX 32 on October 11, 2019, Resilience Director of Advocacy Services Mariá Balata spoke about victim blaming and the dynamics of sexual violence. Watch the full video here.
Oct 24, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
A concert benefiting Resilience was featured in an article published in the Chicago Reader on October 22, 2019. Read the full article here.
Sep 23, 2019 | Articles, Press
In an article published on September 23, 2019 in the DePaulia, Director of Programs and Public Policy Sarah Layden was interviewed for an op-ed about the myth that sexual assault allegations derail the careers of powerful men. Read the full article here.
Aug 28, 2019 | Articles, Press
In an interview published on Vocalo on August 28, 2019, Prevention Educator Maggie Arthur talked about OurMusicMyBody and sexual violence prevention education. Click here to listen to the full story.
Aug 22, 2019 | Articles, Press
In an article published in the Chicago Tribune on August 20, 2019, Director of Advocacy Services Maria Balata was interviewed about self-defense classes and preventing sexual violence. Read the full article here. Resilience provides sexual violence prevention...
Jul 3, 2019 | Articles, News, Press, Video
In a video that aired on WGN on July 2, 2019, Executive Director Erin Walton was interviewed about how to talk to kids and summer camp staff about preventing sexual violence. Click here to watch the full interview and read Resilience’s tips.
Jun 20, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
Resilience’s 16th Annual Evening of Impact: Prevention is Power was recently featured in an article published in the Chicago Defender on June 19, 2019. Click here to read the full article.
Jun 17, 2019 | Announcements, Articles, News, Press
In an article posted on Ascension’s website on April 11, 2019, Resilience’s new hospital partnership with AMITA Health Resurrection Medical Center Chicago was announced. You can read the full announcement...
Jun 3, 2019 | Articles, News, Press, Video
In a video published by CBS on May 21, 2019, Director of Programs and Public Policy Sarah Layden commented on the 6% arrest rate for criminal sexual assault cases, as well as survivors’ experience working with law enforcement.
May 17, 2019 | Announcements, Articles, News, Press
In an article published in UPROXX on May 15, 2019, Prevention Educator Maggie Arthur was interviewed about her work for OurMusicMyBody, a collaborative campaign between Resilience and Between Friends to promote consensual music experiences.
May 6, 2019 | Articles, News, Press, Video
In a video that aired on CBS 2 on May 3, 2019, Resilience’s Director of Programs and Public Policy Sarah Layden was interviewed about amendments to the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act (SASETA) that require hospitals to partner with a rape crisis...
Apr 29, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article published by WMMB News Radio on April 26, 2019, survivors of sexual violence were interviewed at Standing Silent Witness demonstration. Standing Silent Witness is Resilience’s signature Sexual Assault Awareness Month event, where nearly 200...
Apr 18, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article published today in the Chicago Tribune, Resilience was mentioned as the beneficiary of local band Impulsive Hearts’ new cassette sales.
Apr 16, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article published today in the Chicago Reader, Resilience was mentioned as the beneficiary of proceeds from Impulsive Hearts’ sales from their cassette MeToo: A Benefit for Resilience.
Apr 15, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article published on April 10, 2019 in Scapi Magazine, Resilience was mentioned as a beneficiary of Strip Joker, a body positive comedy show hosted at Hamburger Mary’s. At Strip Joker, stand up comedians are encouraged to perform in whatever state of...
Apr 12, 2019 | Articles, Press
In an article published today by the Christian Science Monitor, OurMusicMyBody (OMMB) was featured for its partnership with music festivals to prevent sexual violence. OurMusicMyBody is a collaborative campaign between Resilience and Between Friends to raise awareness...
Feb 26, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
On a radio show that aired on WBBM on February 25, 2019, Executive Director Erin Walton commented on the recent charges against R. Kelly. She spoke about the impact of the charges on young survivors and said she hopes the case against R. Kelly will clear up...
Feb 25, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article published in the Chicago Tribune on February 22, 2019, Executive Director Erin Walton commented on the recent sexual abuse charges against R. Kelly. Walton was joined by Anthony Clark, who helped organize a protest outside of R. Kelly’s Chicago...
Feb 22, 2019 | Announcements, Articles, News
In an op-ed published by the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, Executive Director Erin Walton, together with the other Executive Directors for the founding agencies of the Chicago Prevention Alliance (CPA), wrote about sexual violence against youth and the...
Feb 13, 2019 | Announcements, Articles
OurMusicMyBody recently held a training for new volunteers. One of the campaign’s newest volunteers, a student at Walter Payton High School and a member of the Stop Sexual Assault in Schools Advisory Board, wrote a blog post about the training, reflecting on the...
Feb 4, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article in the Medill Reports published on January 31, 2019, Development Associate and volunteer Lindsay Cogan and Volunteer Advocacy Coordinator Brittny Blackwood spoke about how Resilience volunteer medical advocates serve survivors of sexual violence....
Feb 1, 2019 | Articles, News
In an article in the Chicago Tribune on March 27, 2018, Resilience volunteer and former client Katie O’Brien shared her experience of visiting the ER and being treated by nurse who had never completed a rape exam before.
Jan 31, 2019 | Articles, News, Press, Video
In a video on NBC 5 on January 23, 2019, Director of Advocacy Services Mariá Balata gave a new training to emergency physicians at Rush University Medical Center. The training, which was a custom 4-hour training for Rush designed and delivered by Balata, will help...
Jan 24, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article on The Alternative, OurMusicMyBody was featured for its work to promote consent in the music scene. OMMB is a collaborative campaign led by Resilience and Between Friends.
Jan 24, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article posted on NBC 5 on April 2, 2018, Resilience was listed as resource for survivors of sexual violence. In an accompanying video, 2018 Evening of Impact Featured Speaker Kelly Kitley tells her own story of surviving sexual violence, as a part of the...
Jan 24, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article in the Chicago Reader on January 21, 2019, OurMusicMyBody was featured for its work to promote consent at music festivals. Maggie Arthur, Resilience Prevention Educator, and Matt Walsh, Between Friends Prevention Education Specialist, speak about the...
Jan 17, 2019 | Announcements, Articles, Press, Video
In an interview on Fox 32, Director of Trauma Therapy LaShanda Nalls spoke about her support group and about Black women and girls’ experiences of sexual violence.
Jan 15, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article in the Chicago Tribune, Director of Trauma Therapy Dr. LaShanda Nalls spoke about her upcoming support group for African American women who have been affected by sexual trauma. In light of the new documentary Surviving R. Kelly, the support group is...
Jan 10, 2019 | Announcements, Articles, News
Co-Founders of A Long Walk Home Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet co-authored their first op-ed in The New York Times today. The article, titled “After the ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ documentary, #MeToo Has Finally Returned to Black Girls,” reflects...
Jan 10, 2019 | Articles, Press
In an article in the Chicago Reader on January 8, 2019, Resilience was featured as an organization in Chicago that supports survivors of sexual violence and works to prevent sexual violence. The list of resources was motivated by the recent airing of Surviving R....
Jan 8, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In an article published by The Daily Beast on January 4, 2019, Prevention Educator Maggie Arthur commented on Coachella’s new anti-harassment policy. Maggie Arthur spoke on behalf of OurMusicMyBody, a collaborative campaign between Resilience and Between Friends...
Jan 4, 2019 | Articles, News, Press
In a recent article published in the LA Times, Maggie Arthur, Resilience Prevention Educator and Co-Lead of Our Music My Body, commented on Coachella’s new anti-harassment policy. The new policy, called “Every One,” is meant to provide Coachella...
Aug 21, 2018 | Articles, News, Press
After 44 years as Rape Victim Advocates (RVA), we saw the need for our name and messaging to better reflect our organization’s breadth of services — from our trauma therapy programs, to our work in medical and legal advocacy, to our prevention education. After...
Aug 11, 2018 | Articles, News, Press
Reselience’s rebranding has been featured in a Craine’s Chicago Business article. Lisa Bertagnoli spoke with Executive Director Erin Walton and rebranding partner Substance’s Matthew Brett. A local rape crisis group rebranded, taking on a new...
Apr 27, 2017 | Articles
Dear Survivor, First and foremost, I want you to know how incredible you are and how much I love and care about you. Without a shadow of a doubt, I believe you when you say you’ve been harmed, and I’m so sorry that you’ve experienced violence. To say that you have...
Apr 21, 2017 | Articles
Dear Faith Community Leader, Sexual violence is a spiritual issue. As the topic of sexual violence has slowly become less of a taboo subject, plenty of information has become available about how abuse and rape affect someone emotionally, physically, and even socially...
Apr 14, 2017 | Articles
Dear Fathers, Fear: we all feel it when it comes to sexual violence. As a dad, you experience this fear in a unique way. No one wants to imagine their children experiencing violence of any form, but add in the shame and stigma that surrounds sexual violence and...
Apr 7, 2017 | Articles
Dear Fraternity Member, I believe that you have the power to end rape. As a member of a fraternity, you have the ability to harness your social power and leadership skills to move the needle on important issues affecting your campus, including sexual violence. Before...
