Resilience Training Institute

All professionals and service providers should feel equipped to support survivors, and all survivors should be able to count on trustworthy, specialized institutional responses. In 2018, we established the Resilience Training Institute (RTI) in order to meet the urgent need among Chicago professionals and service providers for formally structured, high quality training in sexual violence response and prevention.

60-Hour Medical Volunteer Training

Our advocates are on-call to provide crisis counseling in Chicago’s hospitals. They are the people who answer the page from the hospital emergency room—the caring strangers who arrive to hold an unsteady hand, decipher medical and legal terminology and filter through countless forms and paperwork, all to put victims on the pathway to becoming fully healed.

Upcoming Trainings

Summer 2023 60-Hour Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Training
Training Dates: Monday, July 17 – Thursday August 17 (Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays)
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Zoom
Volunteer Application Deadline:  June 20
Professional Application Deadline:  July 13
Click here to apply (volunteers) or here to register (professionals).

Fall 2023 60-Hour Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Training
Training Dates: October 16, 17, 19, 23, 24, 26, 30, November 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 16
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Winter 2024 60-Hour Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Training
Training Dates: March 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 28, April 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11
5:30 pm – 9:30 pm

For more information about volunteer trainings, contact volunteer@ourresilience.org.