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February 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »Skokie Grand Opening
ZCenter is thrilled to announce the Grand Opening of our Skokie Location, 4232 Dempster St., THIS February 2016! We are so excited to join the Skokie community and expand our healing services to the Northeast Cook County area. We will be offering our support services, including free counseling to survivors of sexual abuse and their non-offending loved ones, as well as educational prevention programs to the community. For more information on our new location, please call our office at 847-244-1187.
Find out more »March 2016
SPRING Volunteer Training
Looking to make a difference in the lives of survivors? Join us for our upcoming Volunteer 40-Hour Training! Just bring your heart and willingness to learn and we will provide all the training and knowledge needed to come alongside and support survivors. Trainings will be held Tuesday & Thursdays 6-10pm and Saturdays 9am-1pm, with a $100 fee. Please contact Ashley Glover at 847-244-1187 x115 for more information.
Find out more »Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »April 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »May 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »June 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »June Volunteer Training
June 13, 14, 15, 20 & 21, 2016 @ 9:00am-6:00pm
Find out more »July 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »August 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »September 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »October 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »November 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »December 2016
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »January 2017
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »February 2017
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »March 2017
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »April 2017
Race to Zero 5K in Partnership with Road Runner Sports
ZCenter is excited to partner with Road Runner Sports in Wilmette as a sponsor of our upcoming Race to Zero 5k. Road Runner Sports will host two events for ZCenter: April 6th- A ZCenter representative will be in-store from 3pm -7pm to register race participants in-person and answer any questions you may have about ZCenter or our 5th Annual Race to Zero! Drop by and say hi! April 20th- Come to Road Runner Sports to pick out your running shoes for our…
Find out more »Chipotle Fundraiser for ZCenter
Chipotle Fundraiser for ZCenter
Find out more »Stanford Survivor Letter: Read Aloud
In conjunction with the Women's Center of the College of Lake County, ZCenter will host a reading of the powerful letter written by Stanford Survivor, “Emily Doe”. This reading will be followed by a moderated discussion lead by a ZCenter Prevention specialist. Contact womencen@clcillinois.edu for more information.
Find out more »Volunteer Meetings
Every second Wednesday of the month - 6:30-8:30pm
Find out more »5th Annual Race to Zero 5K Run/Walk
Grab your running shoes, friends, and family and join ZCenter for our 5th Annual Race to Zero 5K run/walk to end sexual violence at 9 AM Sunday, April 23rd at Independence Grove in Libertyville. This event celebrates and coincides with Sexual Assault Awareness Month and is an opportunity for the public to come together to raise awareness and create a community of zero tolerance for sexual violence! Registration starts at 8 AM and the race begins at 9 AM sharp, rain…
Find out more »Standing Silent Witness
In conjunction with Sexual Assault Awareness Month, ZCenter staff, volunteers, and community members will stand silently at 9 am for one hour on the steps of the Lake County Courthouse (18 N County St. Waukegan, IL) wearing t-shirts bearing personal stories of sexual assault and abuse - stories that too often are invisible and unacknowledged. T-shirts may also include relevant statistics, facts, or artwork. By standing in solidarity with survivors, silent protesters bear witness to rape survivors’ unheard experiences. Participants are…
Find out more »Denim Day 2017
Denim Day 2017 Join ZCenter on April 26th to make a difference and a statement! We wear denim because… 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will experience some form of sexual abuse before they turn 18 years old. Because every 98 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted, and every 8 minutes, that victim is a child. Because only 6 out of every 1,000 perpetrators will end up in prison and most sexual assaults are never reported. How…
Find out more »ZPN Lunch and Learn: Title IX in Grades K-12
Meet the Expert Presenter: Amy Kosanovich Dickerson, J.D. Amy is a partner at Franczek Radelet P.C., where she has been an attorney in the firm's Education Practice Group since 2008. Amy frequently advises schools, including K-12 and higher education institutions, on Title IX -related matters, including matters related to complaint investigation, staff and student training and programming, school official and Title IX coordinator responsibilities, and policies and procedures. Amy is a frequent speaker on Title IX and has…
Find out more »ZCenter Skokie Open House
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, ZCenter would like to invite the community to visit our Cook County location in Skokie, IL. Staff members will be present to talk about different therapy modalities used at ZCenter and participate in a hands-on self-care activity! Drop in anytime from 2-4pm and bring the whole family!
Find out more »May 2017
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »June 2017
15th Annual Community Luncheon: Planting Seeds of Hope
Please join Zcenter as we host our 15th Annual Community Luncheon to benefit survivors of sexual abuse and assault and fund prevention education to end assault in our community. This is an opportunity to tour Zcenter, learn more about our services, enjoy lunch and a silent auction. We will be presenting awards to important members of the Zcenter community.
Find out more »Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »July 2017
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »ZCenter Associate Board Happy Hour at Tortoise Supper Club
Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center's Associate Board will be hosting a happy hour at Tortoise Supper Club on Thursday, July 13 from 5-8 pm! 10% of all proceeds from the happy hour will go to support ZCenter services for survivors of sexual assault and abuse, including counseling, medical advocacy, court advocacy, our 24/7 support line, and prevention education services. Guests have access to the entire Tortoise Menu to count toward ZCenter proceeds and should let their server know that they're there for ZCenter's…
Find out more »August 2017
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »September 2017
Stevenson High School Street Fest!
ZCenter is so excited to be one of three beneficiary agencies of Stevenson High School's Annual Street Fest. This event is put on by the National Honor Society to raise awareness and mobilize the community- two things that align exactly with ZCenter's mission. We will be at Street Fest representing ZCenter with prevention specialists, counselors and interns to talk about our services and facilitate hands-on projects. We look forward to a fun night of service, awareness and fundraising for an…
Find out more »Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »October 2017
3rd Annual Taste of the Town Gala
ZCenter's 3rd Annual Taste of the Town Gala will be on October 3rd, 2017 at the Drake Hotel! Our Fall Gala invites our friends to come support ZCenter while tasting amazing bites from the area's best restaurants. The night includes a live auction as well as heads or tails fun! We are honored and excited to announce our keynote speaker for the 2017 Gala will be Marilyn Van Derbur, Miss America winner, motivational speaker and childhood survivor. If you are interested…
Find out more »Volunteer Meetings
Every second Wednesday of the month - 6:30-8:30pm
Find out more »November 2017
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »Giving Tuesday
ZCenter is excited to participate in #ILGive and Giving Tuesday this year on November 28, 2017! We have set a $10,000 goal and need your help! Please mark your calendars and go to our Giving Tuesday website to support ZCenter! We are also asking our supporters to help us raise money by partnering with ZCenter as a Peer to Peer fundraiser on Giving Tuesday! To get involved, email RJosephsen@ZCenter.org
Find out more »December 2017
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, active ZCenter volunteers. Meetings provide opportunities for continuing education, support, self-care, and connection with staff and fellow volunteers.
Find out more »January 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »February 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »March 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »April 2018
Standing Silent Witness
ZCenter staff, volunteers, and community members will stand silently at 8:30 a.m. for one hour on the steps of the Lake County Courthouse wearing t-shirts bearing personal stories of sexual assault and abuse - stories that too often are invisible and unacknowledged. T-shirts may also include relevant statistics, facts, or artwork. By standing in solidarity with survivors, silent protesters bear witness to rape survivors’ unheard experiences. Participants are also encouraged to wear teal and purple, the colors of sexual assault…
Find out more »Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »Standing Silent Witness
ZCenter invites community members to join its staff and volunteers at 11 a.m., Friday, April 20 in front of ZCenter’s Skokie location (4232 Dempster St, Skokie). Participants will spend an hour wearing t-shirts bearing personal stories of sexual assault and abuse - stories that too often are invisible and unacknowledged. T-shirts may also include relevant statistics, facts, or artwork. By standing in solidarity with survivors, silent protesters bear witness to rape survivors’ unheard experiences. Participants are also encouraged to wear…
Find out more »6th Annual “Race to Zero” 5K Run/Walk
This annual 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Family Fun run will be held during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. For details or to register, click here. NEW THIS YEAR! Design our Race to Zero T-Shirt! For more information on how to enter, click here. Grab your running shoes, friends, and family and join ZCenter for our 6th Annual Race to Zero 5K run/walk to end sexual violence at 9 AM Sunday, April 22 at Independence Grove in Libertyville. Registration will begin at 8:00 AM. …
Find out more »May 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »June 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »July 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »August 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »September 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »October 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »November 2018
Taste of the Town
We invite you to our 4th Annual Taste of the Town to support ZCenter while tasting amazing bites from the area's best restaurants. The night includes survivor speakers, a silent auction, fund-a-need paddle raise, mystery raffle, as well as fan-favorite Heads or Tails. 5:30 PM: Registration 5:30-7:00 PM: Tasting Event and Silent Auction 7:00 PM: Program and Special Guest Speakers 8:00 PM: Paddle Raise and Heads or Tails To register, call 847-244-1187
Find out more »Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
Find out more »December 2018
Volunteer Meetings
Volunteer Meetings are open to all 40-hour trained, actively engaged ZCenter volunteers. Meetings offer opportunities for continued education and support, praciticing self-care, and ensuring you are connected with staff and fellow volunteers in the program.
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