Northwest Center Against Sexual Assault
NWCASA is a non-profit, full service agency that is devoted to serving sexual assault survivors along with their partners, friends, and family.
Communities Served:
Arlington Heights, Barrington, Bartlett, Buffalo Grove, Des Plaines, Elk Grove Village, Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Golf, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Kenilworth, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Niles, Northbrook, Northfield, Palatine, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Rolling Meadows, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood, Wheeling, Wilmette, and Winnetka
Services Provided:
- Advcocacy-
- -Medical advocacy is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at hospital emergency rooms and police departments. Staff, interns and trained volunteers respond in person to offer emotional support, provide information, and give referrals.
- Legal Advocacy is available to clients seeking emotional support and inforamtion regarding legal issues.
- Crisis Intervention
- 24 Hour Hotline: 888-802-8890
- Counseling Services
- Available to victims and significant others
- Client-Centered, Individual, Couples and Group Therapy is available
- Specialized programs exist to aid children aged 3-17
- Special attention is given to a client's diversity while assisting people to work thorugh trauma-related issues.
- Prevention and Community Education Programs
- Available to preschool to college aged students and adult community members.
- Topics include: personal safety, sexual harassment, acquaintance rape, risk reduction, and dispelling myths
- Professional Training
- Available to health professionals, agencies, community groups, colleges, police and hospital staff.
- Clothesline Project
- Working in conjunction with educational programs in middle and high schools, the Clothesline Project is a visual display of t-shirts made by survivors and significant others of sexual violence.