HELP for Victim Service Providers -- an OVC online resource

I also work in a juvenile correctional institution in Wisconsin. How can someone join your MMM listserv?

Total Postings: 3

Glenn Amundson

02/08/2006

You can send a BLANK email to: MondayMissives-subscribe@yaho...

Anne Seymour

02/10/2006

END GUEST HOST SESSION - Thank you for participating in the OVC Guest Host Session on the NCVRW Awareness Campaign with Anne Seymour. We hope this discussion will help you better serve crime victims. Pleas...

OVCRC

02/08/2006

A media suggestion: Oprah. I also recommend her to be at least nominated for the Ronald Reagan award: she has taken such an active role in using the nation to apprehend predators. Are nominations still...

Total Postings: 0

Diane Priest

02/08/2006

Not for this year, but DO consider this for 2007 NCVRW. The...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

Hi Diane. Nominations are not open for this year, but go fo...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

Anne, Other than the usual issuing invitations to politicians to invite them to attend NCVRW events, have you encountered any other strategies that are helpful in getting elected officials to attend these ...

Lynne

02/08/2006

Indeed. Get five of the official's constituents to call, wr...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

As my day job is working for a legislator, I would say it is...

Liz Reed

02/08/2006

Do you think it is a good idea to have both victims and offenders speak together, as on a panel?

Harriet Clare

02/08/2006

How would a victim go about setting up the panel?

aouttodie

01/24/2007

Good question, Harriet. Depends upon the victims, and the o...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

I work in a juvenile correctional institution and each year we commemorate NCVRW by bringing in speakers, doing various community service projects, crime clock activities, etc. Do you have any new and inn...

Becky

02/08/2006

Hi Becky. OVC is sponsoring a new Victim Awareness Curricul...

anne seymour

02/08/2006

What is your suggestion/idea to not only get our message out to the community but have people respond and get involved. We are located in Eastern Oregon and a very rural farming community.

jenni perkins

02/08/2006

I would start with multi-faith communities and schools, as m...

anne seymour

02/08/2006

Thanks for the excellent OVC Resource Guide. It is loaded with goodies! Some events can be planned using free resources (like media). Any ideas about sources of funding for printing and other activities...

L Wells

02/08/2006

I would pitch the concept to civic organizations and small b...

Anne Seymour

02/10/2006

How do you attract positive community attention to a organization that has previously been in dispair and is trying to rebuild?

Sara

02/08/2006

I would love to email you and get some more insight on this ...

Sara

02/08/2006

The organization that I work for has been in similar circums...

Michele Longe

02/08/2006

A challenge, to be sure. Admit past mistakes. Focus on ris...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

Hi Anne, I just wanted to thank you for the great materials. We are creating a bookmark and a payroll stuffer. Since it is my first year as a community education coordinator, I find it hard to limit the o...

Total Postings: 3

Tina Bouchard

02/08/2006

Do you think a brown bag lunch with the DA or CA is an event that would draw media and/or community attention relevant to Crime Victims' week?

Total Postings: 0

J Berliner

02/08/2006

Usually, such lunches are more for educational purposes. Bu...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

Anne, this is my first time participating in coordinating a victims rights activity. I would like to invovle as many organizations as possible. Do you have any suggestions on what organizations to involv...

Crystal Hollon

02/08/2006

Excellent question, Crystal. Begin with allied victim servi...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

How do you get started with a victim's rights week event. My county does not currently hold an event. What types of events do people like to attend? What are the main objectives of the event? Who is the ta...

Shelley

02/08/2006

I hope you received a Resource Guide from OVC, because it's ...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

How can I get my hands on one of these packets?

M Gomez

02/08/2006

Contact www.ncjrs.gov, under publications then 2006 NCVRW Re...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

Anne, Do you have any suggestions for how a state agency might pick an activity to coordinate uniformly among county victim/witness programs? some counties do their own activities locally, some do nothin...

kathy zupan

02/08/2006

Yes indeed. Coordinated planning could help promote ONE typ...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

Our crime rate has been in the media several times lately so the community is focused, but nothing has been said about the victims. Victims Right's week would be a great time...any best practices by other...

Julie Lawson

02/08/2006

Hi Julie, so sorry about a higher crime rate. My advice: PE...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

I would like to host a crime victims awarness program at the prison where I work.I would appreciate suggestions on what you think would be imporant for the inmates to know about crime victims.

Robi Cohenour

02/08/2006

Awareness of how the crime impacts the victims life. If thi...

aouttodie

01/24/2007

Robi, Departments of Corrections across the nation are among...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

In your opinion, what type of events or workshops work best in teaching juvenile offenders more about victims' rights?

KATHRYN

02/08/2006

I have learned that younger folks have a very short attentio...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

Greetings, I am a police officer in Iowa City, Iowa. What are your thoughts pertaining to citizen volunteers becoming active within the community and partnering with law enforcment? If so, what roles for...

Mike Brotherton

02/08/2006

I am a Victims Assistance Unit Coordinator in the Topeka Pol...

Dawn

02/09/2006

Hi, I'm an advocate in Tucson, AZ and we have a volunteer pr...

Beth

02/08/2006

What role do you see local police departments playing in the NCVRW awareness program?

Cmdr. Jeff Ader

02/08/2006

I think EVERY justice agency could AND should be involved in...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

Do you know of any foundations that will help fund our events? This year, we are targeting youth with our Youth Violence Prevention Program. Our problem is funding. We received $303 from the state as we ...

Liz Reed

02/08/2006

I utilize the web site of The FOundation Center alot to ID f...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

How would you suggest to get our message out there in rural small communities?

jenni perkins

02/08/2006

From my experience, working with different faith communities...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

I was wondering if there were any new, innovative activities that communities have had great success with. We traditionally put on a candle light vigil with speakers but have been brainstorming other poss...

Lori Fralick

02/08/2006

Lori, my organization does an event called Family Gathering,...

Michele

02/08/2006

We will be co-hosting our 14th Annual Crime Victims Breakfas...

Martha

02/08/2006

Lori and I, let me point you again to the Resource Guide, sp...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006

HI Lori:Last year, we did a day long event with federal agen...

Liz Reed

02/08/2006

I am working with a faculty meeting and was just told that their peer mediation group wants to do something the week of victims rights week. Any thoughts for high school and community program partnership?

Total Postings: 4

Angela D

02/08/2006

Some great ideas-I believe in the past they had a poster con...

Angela D

02/08/2006

Angela, over the years, I have participated in many NCVRW ac...

Anne Seymour

02/08/2006