A Safe Place
Sonya P. serves as the Emergency Transitional Housing Coordinator at A Safe Place since August 2023 and has been a Housing Case Manager at Career and Recovery Resources, Inc. since January 2022, focusing on standardized client intakes and housing assessments. Prior experience includes the role of Resident Services Coordinator II at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago from June 2019 to March 2022, where Sonya participated in executing service plans to enhance independence in daily living and connect seniors with supportive services. At AccessAbilities Inc., from January 2016 to February 2019, Sonya held the position of Floating QIDP /Residential Supervisor, contributing to the recruitment and job description development for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). Sonya P. holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resources Management from Davenport University, awarded from 2007 to 2010.
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A Safe Place
For more than four decades, A Safe Place has provided services to victims of domestic violence & human trafficking and their families in Lake County, Illinois. A Safe Place is guided by the following mission: As the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence and human trafficking in northern Illinois, A Safe Place provides a 24-hour crisis line, emergency shelter, individual therapy, family therapy, art therapy, group therapy, affordable housing, advocacy, education and outreach, supportive services to survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking and their children, a mentoring program, custody exchanges, supervised visitations, assistance with orders of protections, and intervention services for abusers to learn accountability for their choices and actions. A Safe Place strives to lessen the impact abuse has had on adults and children by providing services that remove barriers to leaving their abuser and transforming their lives after abuse. Programs and services of A Safe Place are evidenced-based, client-centered, and reflect a trauma-informed approach to direct services for survivors of domestic abuse and their children. Services were designed to meet the immediate crisis and long term needs of domestic violence & human trafficking victims and their children and to prevent domestic violence & human trafficking.