Jobs at Resilience

Resilience, formerly Rape Victim Advocates, has been providing crisis intervention for sexual assault victims since 1974 in Chicago.

Resilience was founded by Dr. Natalie A. Stephens, an OB/GYN at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and 10 medical and nursing students and other staff. They had witnessed too many victims leaving the emergency room in an emotionally worsened state than when they arrived, and they set out to provide victims with the support necessary to start recovering. Decades later, Resilience remains true to its founding principles and the following mission:

Resilience is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the healing and empowerment of sexual assault survivors through non-judgmental crisis intervention counseling, individual and group counseling, and medical and legal advocacy in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. Resilience provides public education and institutional advocacy in order to improve the treatment of sexual assault survivors and to effect positive change in policies and public attitudes toward sexual assault.