Lamb's Fold is a non-profit Christian human services agency providing transitional housing (2 year program) and residential domestic violence services to homeless women and their children. We offer encouragement, care, and compassion to women of all faiths and backgrounds who have found themselves in a homeless situation due to domestic violence, financial crisis, pregnancy, or physical or emotional distress. Our program goal is to equip women to become self-sufficient through education and physical, financial, emotional, and spiritual recovery. We provide shelter, food, clothing, domestic violence services, case management, life skills classes, educational/vocational opportunities, tutoring, advocacy services, spiritual counseling, and transportation assistance.

Will County States Attorney's Office prosecutes domestic violence offenders and offers assistance throughout the legal process to the victims and families of an abuser.

Will County Legal Assistance is a not-for- profit provider of legal services to low income and indigent residents of Will County. WCLAP assists victims of domestic violence with most legal aspects of their journey toward freedom from abuse, including Orders Of Protection, divorce, and other family law and related matters.

Groundwork provides supportive and professional services for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.  The service programs offer victims of sexual assault/domestic violence. and their family members, crisis intervention, advocacy and counseling.  Central to the mission of Groundwork is the belief that victims of domestic violence/sexual assault have a right to realize their full human dignity, to exercise their legal rights, and to develop renewed ways of living.  Groundwork believes that through appropriate support victims and their family members can regain control of their lives.  Annually, Groundwork serves thousands of families through crisis intervention, emergency shelter, advocacy and counseling services.  24-Hour Hotline: Will County - 815/729-1228  Grundy County - 815/941-2261

Joliet Junior Women's Club is a charitable organization that works to serve the community, and whose members band together to contribute to the welfare of the community.  Their mission is to be a visible, viable, involved organization serving the diverse needs of the Joliet area while creating a nurturing environment in which members can develop their own potential.  Members meet monthly (Sept - May) at local restaurants or member's homes.  For more information, please contact Allison Tuidor  (815) 342-3712 and Jen Delara (815) 436-4549.

Will County Child Advocacy Center was established in 1995 to address the needs of young victims of sexual and physical abuse.  When child sexual abuse is revealed, children come into contact with complex legal, medical and child welfare systems that can be bewildering and frightening. The Will County Child Advocacy Center uses a victim-friendly approach to remove some of the fear from the investigative process for the children and their families.  It provides a safe, non-threatening environment in which a coordinated single child-sensitive forensic interview is held, thereby reducing trauma and guaranteeing the statement's admissibility in court.  Support for the victim and family is provided throughout the entire judicial process.  For more information, please contact Sue Bloch at (815) 774-4562.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will and Grundy Counties makes a big difference in the lives of the children from single-parent homes that it matches with one-to-one mentors.  Research consistently demonstrates that Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring helps at-risk youth overcome the many challenges they face.  The most compelling evidence was found by Public/Private Ventures (P/PV)  showing that Little Brothers and Little Sisters are: 46% less likely to begin using illegal drugs; 27% less likely to begin using alcohol; 52% less likely to skip school; 37% less likely to skip class.  Big Brothers Big Sisters was selected by Forbes Magazine as one of its top ten charities, making the publication’s “gold star” list of charities which it believes are worthy of donor consideration, in its annual survey of 200 large charities. 

Will County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) is program of Will County is a non-profit organization that recruits and trains volunteers who represent the best interests of children in specific child abuse and neglect cases in Will County.  For more information, call 815-730-7072.

Sexual Assault Services Center is a program of Guardian Angel Home of Joliet.  It offers victims of rape/sexual assault supportive services to help them regain a sense of control over their lives and to heal the wounds of a violence crime.  The Sexual Assault Services Center views rape/sexual assault as a crime of power and control.  The violence affects both individuals and society.  The Center seeks to address the systematic and structural issues that underlie violence through institutional/community advocacy and violence prevention education.  The Center offers individual counseling, medical advocacy, court advocacy, support groups, and information and referrals.  All services are confidential and available at no cost.  24-Hour Hotline: 815/730-8984

Will County National Organization of Women is a chapter of Illinois NOW.  NOW's purpose is to create a world where all women have political, social and economic equality so that all women and girls share all opportunities, rights, privileges and responsibilities in a fair and just society.  Twenty-five year ago, Joliet NOW was instrumental in organizing Illinois NOW.  Will County NOW is carrying on the tradition of bringing women into full participation in mainstream society by working with other organizations on women's issues. P.O. Box 8047 Romeoville 60446

Zonta Club of Joliet Area is a service club that works to better the community and advance the status of women locally and internationally.  The Joliet chapter was formed in 1973 as part of Zonta International, a world-wide service organization of executives in business and the professions, and has approximately 65 members.  The Joliet Zonta Club has a long-standing supportive and fundraising relationship with Groundwork, the Joliet-based shelter for domestic violence and sexual assault victims.   The Joliet Zonta Club meets monthly for dinner and networking.

Will County Women's Bar Association works to promote the advancement of women in society and insure that women have equal treatment in the justice system. WCWB also acts to advance opportunities for women attorneys, to improve their access to positions of merit and authority, as well as to encourage women to seek career opportunities in the field of law. Contact Amie Sobkoviak at 815-727-5123.