The Gender-Based Violence Counseling and Legal Advocacy RFP seeks to enhance the well-being, safety, and self-determination of Chicago survivors and their children, by increasing access to no-cost counseling and legal advocacy services. This RFP seeks organizations that are able to proactively engage and connect survivors to no-cost counseling and advocacy services and improve their understanding of their legal options. Organizations with experience providing services to survivors of gender-based violence, including advocacy, service planning, case management, emergency and long-term emotionally supportive counseling, filing for a protective order and explanation of victim rights under the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (IDVA), Illinois Safe Homes Act (SHA), Illinois Victims’ Economic Security and Safety Act (VESSA), and other applicable laws, should apply. While human trafficking is not exclusively GBV, for purposes of this RFP, survivors of both sex and labor trafficking are eligible for services and should be assumed to be included whenever “gender-based violence (GBV)” is mentioned throughout.
