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The Center provides resources to help individuals and communities recover from incidents of mass violence. Find resources on victim and social services, social connection and empowerment, health and wellness, and managing grief and trauma. The Center can also coordinate with local officials after an incident to create a community-specific resource page.

The Directory is designed to help crime victims and service providers find nonemergency crime victim service agencies in the United States and abroad.

This OVC-funded initiative provides evidence-based information, training, and other resources for communities so they can effectively prepare for and respond to mass violence incidents.

VictimConnect serves victims of any crime in the United States. Trained specialists are available to help you locate referrals for mental health counseling, financial compensation, legal services, and more. Call or text 855-484-2846 or chat online, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. eastern time.

OVC TTAC provides comprehensive training, technical assistance, and other support to assist the field in building its collective capacity to serve crime victims. OVC TTAC can support organizations through the National Victim Assistance Academy, webinars and other online trainings, instructor materials, and more!

Learn how to provide trauma notifications with professionalism, dignity, and compassion through this FBI on-demand training course. The course covers cultural competencies, challenges, and best practices for trauma notification.

This program investigates missing and murdered cases in pursuit of justice for those impacted by violence.

This site highlights efforts by the Department to address the disproportionately high rates of violence experienced by Native Americans, and relatedly, the high rates of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons.

NamUs is a national information clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases across the United States. This initiative brings provides a powerful tool for law enforcement agencies, medical examiners and coroners, victim advocates, and the general public to search for matches between missing persons and unidentified human remains records.

The Social Security Administration website offers survivor, disability, and benefit-related information. The site features online services and much of its information in multiple languages.

This tool provides access to decades of national and State data on homicide victims and known homicide offenders, including information on the age, sex, and race of victims and offenders, the victim-offender relationship, and the type of weapon used.

Through its Survivor Support Network and other specialized programs, this foundation increases services available to families of fallen firefighters.

The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families provides support and training locally, nationally, and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief.

The Institute promotes excellence in trauma-informed services to organizations nationally and internationally who treat clients with histories of psychological trauma and attachment disruptions.

This organization provides the ongoing emotional support needed to help parents and other survivors facilitate the reconstruction of a "new life" and to promote healthy grief resolution.

MADD has hundreds of chapters that assist victims of drunk driving crashes at the local level. Its website offers statistics, activism information, and program awareness resources. Victims of drunk driving and their loved ones can call MADD's 24-hour hotline 877-MADD-HELP (877-623-3435) to speak with a victim advocate for emotional support, guidance, and referrals.

Concerns of Police Survivors provides resources to help rebuild the lives of survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

This nonprofit, self-help support organization offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings. The Compassionate Friends provides an opportunity for sharing with and learning from other grievers.

This Victim Services Directory was created by the Department of Justice Canada to help service providers, victims, and individuals locate services for victims of crime across Canada.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is dedicated to honoring and remembering the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers in the United States.