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2024 National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW)

How would you help? Options, services, and hope for crime survivors. The 2024 theme asks all of us—friends, family members, neighbors, colleagues, community leaders, victim service providers, criminal justice practitioners, and health professionals—how we can help crime victims. 
Are you prepared if someone confides in you about a victimization? Is your organization victim-centered and trauma-informed? 
Are you familiar with the services available in your community? 
This year’s theme is a call to action for us all to create safe environments for crime victims to share what happened to them. By doing so, we’re able to offer support, options for life-saving services, and, most importantly, hope.

The OVA partnered with CCSU Womens Center and worked with CCSU intern to create a career and service focused event to shed light on the possibilities to students. Thank you to the Record Journal for the article feature found here.

2023 National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW)

Since 1981, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) has challenged the Nation to confront and remove barriers to achieving justice for all victims of crime. During NCVRW, we celebrate the accomplishments of the victims’ rights movement and reflect on how far we have come.

The 2023 NCVRW theme is Survivor Voices: Elevate. Engage. Effect Change. This year's theme calls upon communities to amplify the voices of survivors and create environments where survivors have the confidence that they will be heard, believed, and supported. 

NCVRW will be commemorated April 23–29, 2023

 

  

2022 National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW)

Rights | Access |Equity

The Office of The Victim Advocate (OVA) is honoring National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) by hosting a statewide virtual conference. NCVRW is a time to renew our commitment to serving all victims of crime, honor and remember crime victims and survivors, acknowledge the successes in victim services and the work that is still needed. Join in the celebration and take part in the events and trainings offered during this week.

    Welcome Message from the State Victim Advocate

Office for Victims of Crime National Crime Victims' Rights Week 2022 Theme Video

History of Crime Victims' Rights in CT