About NWCASA

About Us

Northwest Center Against Sexual Assault (NWCASA) is the only full-service agency that provides free services to sexual assault survivors and their loved ones within the North and Northwest suburbs of Cook County & McHenry County. Our agency has been responding to the needs of survivors of sexual violence and their significant others for more than 40 years. Northwest CASA is a governing body member of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

What we Do

Northwest Center Against Sexual Assault (NWCASA) is committed to empowering survivors and ending sexual violence. Our free services include: individual, family, and group counseling for survivors and their loved ones; medical advocacy at hospital emergency rooms; legal advocacy at local police departments and courthouses; crisis intervention telephone hotline; and professional training, sexual abuse prevention education, and community activism. Medical advocacy and a confidential crisis hotline are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and many services offered are available in both English and Spanish.

All of our services are free to survivors & their significant others of any gender, age, and sexuality. Services can be used no matter when the sexual violence occurred in that persons life.