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![A group of at least 30 people spent an hour April 23 at both of the center’s offices in Gurnee and Skokie silently sharing the personal stories of sexual assault and abuse through signs and T-shirts.](https://zcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/YUJDUDJGP5AC3F65PGVYYUC5TA-600x398.jpg)
Aim is to ‘create a culture of respect, equality and safety,’ eliminate sexual assault and abuse GURNEE – As long as sexual assault and abuse continues, workers, survivors, volunteers and friends of the Gurnee-based Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center will be “standing silent witness” in protest. They presented relevant statistics, facts...
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Midday Fix: Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center
- April 25, 2019|
Ali Barnett, Director of Development at Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center Raeven Grant, ZCenter advocate and a survivor April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. ZCenter has two locations (Gurnee and Skokie): 4275 Old Grand Ave, Gurnee, IL 60031 847.244.1187 4232 Dempster Street, Skokie, IL 60076 847.972.1790 We staff a 24/7 Support...
![Participants run along a shoreline path during the seventh-annual Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center Race to Zero on April 14, 2019 at Independence Grove in Libertyville. (Karie Angell Luc/News-Sun)](https://zcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ct-1555278365-9c8t6zni1d-snap-image-600x337.jpg)
Libertyville runners brave snow for a good cause
- April 14, 2019|
The seventh- annual Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center Race to Zero stepped off Sunday under heavy snow flurries at 35 degrees in Libertyville. “Let’s melt some snow,” said an announcer via megaphone, asking participants to assemble at the start line shortly after 9 a.m. “I’d rather have snow than rain. I...
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- April 1, 2019|
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Protestors stand in silence for sexual assault survivors
- April 19, 2018|
WAUKEGAN – Shoulders hunched, people hurried up the walkway to the Lake County courthouse, eager to seek the warmth waiting behind the automatic glass doors during the unexpected snowfall April 9. Few of them slowed their pace long enough to acknowledge the 14 silent individuals lining the walkway. Even fewer...
![Ashley Dawson of Wauconda, foreground, is among those participating in a Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center demonstration Monday to draw attention to sexual assault survivors as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. (Jim Newton / Lake County News-Sun)](https://zcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/5LV7652QMRHINLIHJTQP2PX2YU-600x337.jpg)
Wintry weather, including snow, didn't deter about 15 demonstrators from "standing silent witness" outside of the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan Monday morning to honor sexual assault survivors. Borrowing a tradition initially established by a Chicago rape victim advocacy group, the demonstrators — workers, volunteers and friends with the Gurnee-based...
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- December 12, 2017|