Area 2: Northwestern Illinois

Child Abuse Council, Rock Island
A Safe From The Start Grantee

Phone: (309) 786-1466
Fax: (309) 786-1712
E-mail: E-mail: michaelt@childabuseqc.org
Website: http://www.childabuseqc.org

The Child Abuse Council’s Safe From the Start program has operated in Rock Island County since July of 2003. The program provides direct service to children and families impacted by violence in their lives. The Children’s Trauma Services Supervisor oversees the Safe From the Start Case Coordinator and a number of contractual therapists. The Case Coordinator provides therapy for children and the non-offending caregiver in addition to case management. The contractual therapists utilize various therapeutic interventions including play therapy. The Child Abuse Council also convenes the Safe From the Start coalition which brings together local service providers and stakeholders with the goal of improving services for children and families by bringing awareness to the issue of children’s exposure to violence. In addition to providing direct service and heading the coalition, the Safe From the Start program at Child Abuse Council conducts extensive public awareness activities that increase community knowledge about the effects of childhood exposure to violence.

Patriots Gateway Community Center, Winnebago County
A Choose Respect Grantee

Phone: (815) 316-3023
Fax: (815) 316-3024
Email: E-mail: jessiebates7@gmail.com
Website: http://www.patriotsgateway.org

Youth Service Bureau of Illinois Valley, LaSalle County
A Choose Respect Grantee

Phone: (815) 433-3953
Fax: (815) 433-3980
Email: E-mail: dave@ysbiv.org
Website: http://www.ysbiv.org

ADV & SAS
An Illinois Health Cares Grantee

Phone: (815) 431-0630
Fax: (815) 431-0637
E-mail: mmorrison@advsas.org
Website: http://www.familyviolence13.org

ADV & SAS has provided advocacy, counseling, prevention and shelter services to LaSalle and Livingston County victims of domestic and sexual violence for approximately 30 years. They partner with the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Family Violence Prevention Council to implement the Illinois Health Cares program. The Council works with local service providers and community members to develop and expand needed services to address such forms of violence as child abuse, youth dating violence, adult partner abuse, elder abuse, and suicide. With funding from IVPA, the program looks to expand a community-wide collaborative response to domestic, sexual, and elder violence by developing a coalition, promoting public awareness, and providing continuing education to community medical personnel.

Family Resources, Rock Island
An Illinois Health Cares Grantee

Phone: (309) 797-6534
Fax: (309) 797-6569
Email: mwilson@famres.org
Website: http://www.famres.org

Family Resources’ Rape/Sexual Assault Counseling and Advocacy Program has provided service to the Quad Cities for almost 30 years, providing primary intervention and community education services, a 24-hour crisis line, and advocacy training and deployment to local hospitals. With funding from IVPA, Family Resources looks to strengthen connections between R/SACAP and the local medical community in order to increase awareness and response of health professionals to signs of sexual assault, and broaden the scope of prevention education to include more schools and professional institutions.

YWCA of the Sauk Valley, Sterling, Lee and Whiteside Counties
A Bullying Prevention Grantee

Phone: (815)625-0333
Fax: (815) 625-5308
Email: cfitzgerald@ywsauk.org
Website:http://www.ywca.org/saukvalley

Rock Island School District #41, Rock Island & Rock Island County
A Bullying Prevention Grantee

Phone: (309)793-5900
Fax: (309) 309-793-5984
Email: mike.oberhaus@risd41.org
Website: http://www.rockislandschools.org