This RFP seeks organizations that are able to proactively engage survivors at various locations throughout Chicago’s Domestic Violence (DV) Courthouse - Circuit Court of Cook County to improve survivors’ understanding of their legal options and processes and assist survivors with determining which legal remedies to pursue inside and outside of the courthouse. The selected delegate(s) will increase survivors’ safety and satisfaction with legal responses to gender-based violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking, and increase the number of survivors who follow through in obtaining protective orders. For purposes of this RFP, while human trafficking is not exclusively GBV, survivors of both sex and labor trafficking are eligible for services and should be assumed to be included whenever “gender-based violence” or survivors is mentioned throughout.
