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Riverview Center serves 14 counties (11 rural and 3 urban over a 9,629 sq mi area) across northeast Iowa providing services for those impacted by sexual violence and 2 counties in northwest Illinois serving those impacted by domestic and sexual violence. All services are completely free and confidential. Riverview Center offers 100% free and confidential services for survivors of sexual violence in Iowa, and for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in Illinois. Services include 24-hour crisis hotlines, legal, medical and social service advocacy, long- and short-term counseling, trauma-informed therapy, transition and basic needs assistance, and more. Care is specialized and client-centered based on an individual’s unique needs and circumstances.
Our Evening of Light and Luncheon of Light, are an annual celebration of the resiliency of survivors. We have secured artist and author, Chanel Miller, as our Keynote speaker. Chanel became known publicly when she read her compelling and powerful victim impact statement ahead of Brock Turner’s sentencing in 2016. Her victim impact statement went viral, including a reading on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. She went on to write a memoir, Know My Name and in the spring her new children’s book will be released. The Crisis Response program provides critically needed assistance for survivors after experiencing the trauma of sexual assault and abuse. Our trauma-informed services build resilience by treating the root causes of the potentially chronic impacts of abuse and through the needed wraparound care coordination to ensure all of their needs are met. We partner with law enforcement, medical professionals, schools and Title IX officers, other survivor service agencies and more to conduct systems work to ensure first responders and others addressing current or future sexual assault/abuse response are trauma-informed and cognizant of the systemic barriers that have been and continue to be problematic for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, differently abled, children and other survivors who have additional vulnerabilities to disengaged systems. We also work with human service and other partners to ensure that survivors are connected to all of the community services they deserve. Through community networking meetings and community outreach/trainings, Riverview partners with schools/colleges, law enforcement, medical personnel, social/human services and others to enhance the systems supporting sexual assault survivors, create strong collaborations to ensure all of survivors’ needs are met, safeguard against the potential long-term effects of trauma, and to ensure the rights and privacy of survivors are respected at all times
