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National
Family and Domestic Violence Organizations
Chicago and
Illinois Domestic Violence Organizations
National
Mental Health Organizations
Chicago and
Illinois Mental Health Organizations
Disabilities
Rights Organizations
Chicago
and Illinois Healthcare Organizations
Trauma Organizations
Searchable
Databases
National
Family Violence
and Domestic Violence Organizations
American
Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
Asian
and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
Battered Women’s Justice Project
Resources for civil, criminal and defense
issues; home of Sacred Circle project for Native American women.
Community
United Against Violence
Addresses violence against and within LGBT community
Corporate
Alliance to End Partner Violence
Emerge
Program- counseling and education for men who batter.
FaithTrust
Institute (formerly Center for the Prevention of Sexual and
Domestic Violence)
Resources for faith communities addressing
abuse.
Family Violence Prevention
Fund
Gay Men’s Domestic Violence
Project
Incite!
Women of Color Against Domestic Violence
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
Islamic Society of North
America- Domestic Violence in the Muslim Community
Jewish Women International
- Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community
Legal Momentum (formerly
NOW Legal Defense Fund - includes information and referrals
for battered immigrant women
National Center for Children
Exposed to Violence
National Center
on Elder Abuse
National
Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence - includes
listings of state coalitions
National Council on Child
Abuse and Family Violence
National Domestic Violence Hotline
National Latino Alliance
for the Elimination of Domestic Violence
National Network to End Domestic
Violence
National Resource Center on
Domestic Violence
The Northwest Network
of Bisexual, Transgender, Gay and Lesbian Survivors of Abuse
U.S. Department of Justice,
Violence Against Women Office
Verizon
Hopeline - Donate a cell phone
WomensLaw.org (formerly
Women's Law Initiative State by state legal information
and resources
Women’s Rural Advocacy
Programs
Domestic
Violence Agencies and Organizations- Chicago and Illinois
Illinois Coalition
Against Domestic Violence
Illinois
Department of Human Services Bureau of Domestic and Sexual
Violence Prevention
**Note: the following is not a comprehensive
list of domestic violence organizations in Chicago and Illinois,
it only represents Chicago agencies that have web sites. Please
contact the Chicago Domestic Violence Help Line at 1-877-863-6338
[1-877-863-6339 (TTY)] for referrals to a domestic violence
program in your area.
Apna Ghar – with particular services for south Asian Women
Between
Friends (formerly Friends of Battered Women and Their Children)
Center
on Halsted (formerly Horizons Community Services)—
LGBT social service agency.
Chicago
Metropolitan Battered Women's Network
Chicago Abused
Woman Coalition
Chicago
Area Domestic Violence Services
Family Rescue
Jane Addams
Hull House - Domestic Violence Initiative
LifeSpan—provides
legal and social services to domestic violence victims and
their children.
Mujeres
Latinas en Accion
Rainbow House
National
Mental Health Organizations
American
Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
Anxiety Disorders Association
of America
Bazelon Center for Mental
Health Law
SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center (formerlyKnowledge
Exchange Network (KEN)—Clearinghouse for the Center
for Mental Health Services)
Mental
Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
Mental Help Net - source
for searching issues related to mental health, including current
legislation.
National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of State
Mental Health Program Directors – includes position
statement on services and supports for trauma survivors.
National Institute of
Mental Health
National Mental Health Association
President's
New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
Women,
Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Study, national study
funded by SAMHSA.
Chicago
and Illinois Mental Health Agencies and Organizations
Illinois:
The Illinois
MISA (Mental Illness and Substance Abuse) Institute –
Conducts training for Illinois public mental health and substance
abuse services systems.
Illinois Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health
Illinois
Psychiatric Society
Mental Health Association of
Illinois
Chicago:
Asian Human Services
Chicago
Department of Public Health - Division of Mental Health
Community Counseling Centers
of Chicago
Haymarket Center
Heartland Alliance
Center on Halsted
(formerly Horizons Community Services) (serving gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered persons)
Howard Brown Health Center (lesbian, gay, bisexual health center)
Metropolitan Family
Services
Thresholds
Disabilities
Rights Organizations
Equip for Equality (A non-profit disabilities rights advocacy organization
designated by the Governor as the state protection and advocacy
provider)
Illinois Network of Centers
for Independent Living (A non-profit advocacy group that
represents the Centers for Independent Living (CILs) statewide.
Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago - Women with Disabilities Center (A non-profit disability advocacy organization)
Chicago
and Illinois Healthcare Organizations
Illinois Department
of Healthcare and Family Services
Illinois Hospital Association (A non-profit organization representing 200 hospitals in Illinois)
Trauma
Organizations
Anxiety Disorders Association
of America
David Baldwin’s
Trauma Information Pages – collection of trauma
information and resources
Child Trauma Academy
The International Society for
Traumatic Stress Studies
National Child Traumatic
Stress Network
National Center for Post
Traumatic Stress Disorders
home of PILOTS database – Published International Literature
on Traumatic Stress.
PTSD Alliance- A group of professional and advocacy organizations
that have joined together to provide educational resources
to those diagnosed with PTSD and their loved ones, as well
as people who may be at risk, and service professionals.
Sidran Institute: Traumatic
Stress Education and Advocacy.
Publishes Risking Connections; sponsors trainings; (www.sidran.org/des.html)
has Traumatic Stress Instruments and Measures to buy: Dissociative
Features Profile (DFP), Adolescent Dissociative Experiences
Scale (A-DES), Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), Lifetime
Incidence of Traumatic Event for Student (LITE-S) and Parent
(LITE-P), Child report of Post-traumatic Symptoms (CROPS),
Parent Report of Post-traumatic Symptoms (PROPS).
Traumatology
institute – Charles R. Figely, Ph.D., author of
Compassion Fatigue
Searchable
Databases
Communities against violence
Network (CAVNET) electronic database
Minnesota Center Against
Violence and Abuse electronic clearinghouse
Partnerships Against Violence
Network
Violence Against Women electronic
clearinghouse (VAWNET); includes news updates
PILOTS
Database -- Published International Literature on Traumatic
Stress – an electronic index to the Traumatic Stress
Literature
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