Resilience
Eleanor Marcet is currently a Medical/Legal Advocate at Resilience, where services are provided to survivors of sexual assault under VESSA and SASETA since November 2022. Additionally, Eleanor is a medical student at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, with studies ongoing from August 2021 to 2025. Experience includes serving as a Hotline Volunteer for Rape Advocacy, Counseling, and Education Services (RACES) since January 2020 and working as a Certified Nursing Assistant at Monarch Landing Senior Living from 2020 to 2021. Eleanor also held the position of Patient Care Technician at Loyola University Medical Center from May 2020 to September 2020. Academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Spanish from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, completed in May 2020.
Resilience
Resilience (formerly RVA) is an Illinois not-for-profit organization made up of many individuals with two primary goals: to assure that survivors of sexual assault are treated with dignity and compassion; and to affect changes in the way the legal system, medical institutions and society as a whole respond to survivors. Resilience focuses on both social service and social change. Through our presence in Chicago area emergency rooms, we provide nonjudgmental emotional support to victims of sexual violence, enabling them to become survivors. By providing basic legal and medical information, and referrals to other service organizations, we help the survivor make informed decisions. We also offer survivors continued support through telephone follow-up and our staff of counselors and legal advocates. Through these services, we enable survivors to regain control over their lives as quickly as possible. Through our work with the Chicago Police Department, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office and other area institutions, we strive to improve the treatment of survivors as a group in our society. Resilience offers three distinct program areas: Counseling (individual and group), Advocacy (legal and medical) and Education & Training.