FYI: C4 Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault
Jae Jin Pak
What Happened to the Quetzal Center?
Like many social service programs, the Quetzal Center, the rape crisis center at Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4), closed at the end of 2011 due to lack of funding.
The GOOD news is that a counseling program for survivors of sexual assault and sexual abuse is now part of the C4 Adult Outpatient program at the Peterson location. Our staff – all graduates of an Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault (ICASA) 40-hour training program – provide individual counseling from a trauma informed perspective. We use a wellness model and correlate symptoms with past abuse experiences. We continue to offer innovative approaches, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and DBT.
We also offer several therapy groups:
--Trauma Recovery and Empowerment (TREM) – a psychoeducational group about trauma
--Beginning Survivors
--Advanced Survivors
--Trauma Informed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combined with Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication model (a 1-year program)
--Self-care (summer)
Our program accepts Medicaid and many private insurance PPO plans. For clients without insurance who were assaulted within the past year, we offer a generous sliding scale fee based on income.
Our services are covered by the Illinois Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act, which protects the confidentiality of individuals receiving mental health services. We recommend, however, that clients with legal involvement, seeking to retain absolute privilege, request services from an ICASA affiliated rape crisis center. To locate an ICASA center, contact the Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline at 1-888-293-2080.
To refer clients recovering from sexual violence to the C4-Peterson sexual assault services program, please contact:
Yvette Arnoux, LCPC
2525 W. Peterson
Chicago, IL 60659
Email yvette...@c4chicago.org
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