This section of the 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide (NCVRW) provides resources to raise awareness of crime victims’ rights and services, build connections, and encourage healing in your community.

Here, you will find:

• a sample proclamation to issue at the start of NCVRW.
• a list of victims’ rights landmarks that can be used in your awareness efforts.
• a commemorative calendar that you can use to help plan awareness efforts throughout the year.
• tips about how to find relevant facts and statistics about criminal victimization.
• answers to frequently asked questions.
• suggestions for how to keep raising awareness of victims’ rights throughout the year.
• additional resources about crime victims’ issues.