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VICTIM ADVOCACY
Community Victim Advocacy - Working with
the COP’s program intervention and advocacy addresses the
impact of violent crime upon individuals, neighborhoods and schools.
Police Victim Advocates:
Provide intervention from the scene of crimes and other traumas
through the extent of the impact.
Advocates work with victims of all violent
crimes and other traumatic events. The program is the only resource
for on-scene assistance in the aftermath of suicides and serious
vehicle injuries and deaths
Provision of Group Crisis Intervention:
Advocates intervene in school crises providing guidance and group
crisis intervention.
Advocates intervene with business employees
in the aftermath of violent crimes.
CAC staff person is a member of the team which reviews child abuse
cases with social workers, nurses, prosecutor and doctors at Childrens’
Hospital.
VICTIM WITNESS ADVOCACY
Advocates provide assistance from the prosecution process through
court trials.
Advocates are located in the Akron Municipal Prosecutor’s
office, The Barberton Police Department and Summit County Prosecutor’s
Office at Grand Jury level.
Victim Assistance Pioneered the Juvenile Court victim advocates
and currently has advocates working with victims of violent crimes
to prepare Victim Impact Statements.
Advocate assist victims with Anti-Stalking and Civil Protection
Orders in the aftermath of stalking and domestic violence.
JOINT INTERVENTION AND ADVOCACY
Victim Assistance Program works closely with Battered Women’s
Shelter. We share staff and planning in numerous areas:
One SAFE advocate works with Battered Women’s Shelter and
the prosecutor’s special domestic violence prosecution project.
One Family Stability case worker is housed within the Battered Womens
Shelter office in a joint project which works with families on-going
needs after victimization.
Three Staff provide Crisis intervention to Children Who Witness
Violence in conjunction with the Shelter, Childrens’ Hospital,
Blick Clinic, Child Guidance and other agencies.
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