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In preparation for National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW), the following products will be available April 19, 2007. Unless otherwise directed in the descriptions below, please visit the NCJRS Publications/Products page to order copies. Simply enter the product number in the search field or use the alphabetical list to find your product. Place your order online by clicking on the shopping cart order button.
The product number is provided in parenthesis in each product description. Contact AskOVC if you have any questions.
 Building Victim Assistance Networks With Faith Communities (April 2007)
This e-publication (NCJ 215201) provides information to victim service providers seeking to engage faith communities in serving crime victims. The publication focuses on lessons learned from the Faith Community Initiative developed through the OVC-funded Vermont Victim Services 2000 demonstration project, a model resource network for providing services to crime victims tailored to the needs of the community. It also discusses issues unique to faith-based victim assistance, and other initiatives that involve collaboration between the victim service and faith communities.
 Cómo Recuperarse de sus Lesiones Relacionadas con el Delito (English version—Recovering From Your Crime-Related Injuries) (April 2007)
This 12-minute DVD (NCJ 213709) is a component of A Multimedia Program for Physically Injured Crime Victims, which was released in English in 2006. The DVD provides seriously injured crime victims with general information about the criminal justice system and strategies to cope with the negative emotions that often accompany victimization. The DVD's companion brochure and bulletin are also being made available in Spanish at this time.
 DNA: Critical Issues for Those Who Work With Victims (April 2007)
This 24-minute DVD (NCJ 211970), produced as part of the President's DNA Initiative, is intended to raise awareness for victim advocates, criminal justice practitioners, and others who work with crime victims about the issues involved for those whose cases involve DNA evidence. The DVD focuses on the collection and preservation of evidence, what the victim can expect as the case moves forward, victim notification during the process, victim involvement and participation in the process, and cold case investigations.
 Helping Outreach Programs to Expand (April 2007)
This OVC brochure (BC 000742) describes the Helping Outreach Programs to Expand grant program developed to help grassroots, nonprofit, community- and faith-based organizations and coalitions that are not linked to mainstream victim service programs to expand and enhance their crime victim services and outreach efforts. Funds may be used to develop programs, aid networking, build coalitions, and deliver services.
Printed copies of this brochure will be available later in May.
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 Two-in-One DVD: Serving Crime Victims With Disabilities (April 2007)
This DVD (NCJ 213366) presents two popular, award-winning videos, “Meet Us Where We Are” and “The Time Is Now,” originally produced in December 2002, in a new, user-friendly format. “The Time Is Now” helps crime victim service providers reach out and serve people with disabilities. “Meet Us Where We Are,” which presents first person accounts of how crime affects people with disabilities, educates disability service providers and people with disabilities about crime victims' rights and resources.
 Victims with Disabilities: The Forensic Interview—Techniques for Interviewing Victims with Communication and/or Cognitive Disabilities (April 2007)
This 57-minute DVD (NCJ 212894) provides a specific set of guidelines for practitioners (law enforcement officers, prosecutors, victim advocates, forensic interviewers, and others) to follow when interviewing adults and children with communication and/or cognitive disabilities. A companion discussion guide including a transcript of the DVD and a glossary of terms and concepts used in the film accompanies this DVD.
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