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The Sexual Violence Program provides free, confidential, and comprehensive services for survivors of sexual violence and gender-based violence.
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the Sexual Violence program

The Sexual Violence Program provides free, confidential, and comprehensive services for survivors of sexual violence and gender-based violence. We meet survivors where they are, honoring their cultural values, offering trauma-informed, survivor-led care that fosters resilience collective healing, and long-term empowerment.

Our services include crisis intervention, individual therapy, support groups, psychoeducational/psychosocial groups, and advocacy in medical, legal, and law enforcement settings.

Through our cultural-responsive services, we aim to help survivors examine and release cultural myths that may impede healing, while also integrating alternative healing practices that support holistic recovery. We also partner with schools, hospitals, and community agencies to strengthen systemic responses to sexual assault and to expand prevention education.

We believe healing is possible when survivors are affirmed, supported, and empowered to reclaim their voices and futures. At Mujeres, survivors are never alone in their journey.

Crisis
Intervention

Provide immediate support to ensure safety and address urgent needs to help survivors stabilize, including connecting them with follow-up services, information, and referrals. Serves as an entry point into longer-term services, such as counseling, case management, and legal advocacy.
Available at all Mujeres offices.
Anyone who identifies as a survivor of SA and their non-offending significant other

Mujeres offers this service in-person and via phone call Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. in the Pilsen office. Alternatively, Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 888-293-2080.

Therapy

Provide therapeutic services, including individual and group therapy sessions, to individuals across the lifespan, offering a safe space for survivors to identify longer-term coping mechanisms or established survival skills and promote healthy internal and external changes.
Pilsen Headquaters (2124 W. 21st Place, Chicago, IL)
Anyone who identifies as a survivor of sexual violence and their non-offending significant other.

Child therapy services are offered in person and virtually at the Pilsen office.

In-person Service:

  • Tuesday and Thursday 11 am – 7 pm
  • Saturday 9 am to 2 pm.

Virtual Services:

  • Wednesday from 11 am to 7 pm
  • Friday from 9 am to 5 pm.

Adult therapy services vary by location. Please call us at 773-890-7676 for more information.

Individual & Group
Psycho-educational Counseling

Provide psychoeducational services, including individual and group sessions, to individuals across the lifespan and their non-offending significant other. These services aim to provide valuable information about the effects of sexual violence and a space where they can work on current issues and develop coping skills for their ongoing healing journey.
Available at all Mujeres offices.
Anyone who identifies as a survivor of sexual violence and their non-offending significant other
Services are offered in person and virtually at the North Riverside office (7222 Cermak Rd, North Riverside, IL 60546) In-person Service:
  • Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Virtual Services:
  • Monday and Thursday – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Medical
Advocacy

Provide in-person support to sexual assault survivors and their non-offending significant others at medical facilities. The services include contact with emergency room personnel regarding the sexual assault, provision of resources about survivor’s rights, and options regarding follow-up services.

Hospitals Mujeres has partnership with:

  • Jesse Brown Medical Center
  • Humboldt Park Hospital
  • Loretto Hospital
  • St. Anthony Hospital

Anyone who identifies as a survivor of sexual violence and their non-offending significant other

The service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Hospital personnel calls Mujeres immediately upon a survivor’s arrival at the emergency room.

Legal
Advocacy

Provide survivors support as they navigate the civil and criminal justice proceedings, including provide information about reporting options and procedures, survivor rights, filling protective orders, assistance with title IX or campus proceedings, filing for crime victims compensation and accompanying the survivor to civil court appearances and going to court on behalf of a survivor.
Pilsen Headquaters (2124 W. 21st Place, Chicago, IL)

Anyone who identifies as a survivor of sexual violence and their non-offending significant other

The service is available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., upon survivors’ requests.

Community Education &
Professional Training

Provide presentations, workshops, trainings, outreach, tabling, and education in a variety of topics surrounding domestic violence and organization services in order to educate and promote domestic violence prevention in communities around the city.
Offered both virtually and in-person at all of our offices and off-site.
Open to the community at large, including Community members, professionals, groups and other social service organizations.
The services are continuously offered throughout the year.
  1. Healthy relationships (signs of abuse, rape culture, consent, and trauma)
  2. Gender-based violence (types, effects, and prevention, promoting healthy and safe communities)
  3. Sexual violence (prevention and healthy dating)
  4. Gender diversity & human trafficking (LGBTQIA+ identities, sexual violence, consent, boundaries, and seeking help)
  5. Child Sexual Abuse Prevention (definition, signs, and communication skills)
  6. Sexually transmitted infections
  7. Sexual Harassment

Our services are free, confidential, and designed to support survivors on their healing journeys.

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