Carrie Ward, CEO of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, joins Lisa Dent to talk about the ramifications of the federal funding cuts and how rape crisis centers are left without resources.
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The burnout that has hit so many in her line of work came for Phyllis Lubel last fall. She had just finished a particularly grueling 16-month stretch in which she logged close to 300 hours inside Lake County emergency rooms, where she took on the arduous task of trying to help survivors in the immediate aftermath of a sexual assault. After nearly 26 years with the Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center .