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A tremendous thanks to everyone who helped make our special benefit performance of Trust at the Lookingglass Theatre a success - Co-written and co-directed by David Schwimmer, Trust is a play about a seemingly innocent online encounter that threatens to unravel the fabric of an American family. RVA is Lookingglass Theatre Company's lead community partner for the production Trust, providing technical assistance, helping to ensure that all community engagement around this production involves experts in the anti-violence field and coordinating the presence of a trained rape crisis counselor at each performance of Trust.
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Thank you for making RVA's first-ever Yogathon a success!
On Saturday, September 26, RVA partnered with lululemon athletica and local yoga studios for a Yogathon to suppor the free servcies we offer to rape victims. Please check back soon for more details.
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Upcoming Volunteer Training
Volunteers are invaluable to our commitment to provide services for victims of sexual assault. Our volunteers serve as Sexual Assault Medical Advocates, which means they provide crisis counseling, medical and legal advocacy to survivors who come in to one of our 12 contracted ERs and/or they act as Education and Training volunteers. We require our volunteer medical advocates to be on call for two 12-hour shifts per month for a minimum of one year (after completion of the training).
All prospective volunteers must attend the volunteer training to become Rape Crisis Counselors, in accordance with the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault. You MUST attend one orientation session before beginning our training. The orientation includes: an introduction to sexual assault issues, overview of RVA programs and opportunities, volunteer job descriptions, volunteer training guidelines/expectations, and the application process. A personal interview with one of our experienced trainers will follow the orientation.
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Counseling Groups Forming:
Incest Survivors Support Group and Adult Sexual Assault Survivors Support Group.
RVA's counseling services are free and confidential. Survivors are eligible to receive our services immediately following or years after experiencing sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, or incest. Support groups for survivors are held several times a year at the Central office (located downtown) and at Cook County Hospital. Please contact our director of counseling at 312.443.9603 x30 to receive information about our upcoming groups. Or email us at dircounseling@rapevictimadvocates.org.
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Survivor Activism Group:
This is an opportunity for survivors of sexual assault/abuse to participate in the movement to end sexual violence by transforming their personal experience into public awareness and mobilization. You and other survivors will share, develop and implement the ideas generated from this group. Please call 312.443.9603 x39 for more information, or email us at dircounseling@rapevictimadvocates.org.
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