Acknowledgments

University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina extends special thanks to members of the original National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium (2000–2001) for their good faith endurance of “group process” during each meeting and for setting a foundation of work on which this document is based. We thank the new members of the National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium (2011–2012) for their devotion to revising the original document to reflect promising practices in the field, and for infusing the standards and supplemental materials with a new energy and contemporary relevance.

We also thank those who participated in town hall meetings and listening sessions for providing insights that fueled Consortium discussions, and also the many reviewers who provided input on preliminary drafts of the original and revised Model Standards.

National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium

Many of the materials in this e-pub rest on standards and promising practices identified by experts and practitioners at the state level, by national organizations, and by professionals in related fields, and we thank the people who contributed to these ideas.

Special thanks also to the following organizations for granting permission to adapt portions of their professional standards or educational products:

The American Psychological Association, with particular contributions to the working definition, mission statement, and guiding values.

The Association of Social Work Boards, with particular contributions to ethical standards.

The Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies, with particular contributions to writing style and program standards on personnel policies, staff conduct, rewards and discipline, and negotiations and grievances.

The Council on Social Work Education, with particular contributions to how to use the standards and to program standards on personnel policies and staff development.

The Iowa Attorney General’s Office, with particular contributions to program standards on program closing or termination.

The Missouri Coalition Against Domestic Violence, with particular contributions to program standards on documentation and supervision.

The National Federation of Paralegal Associations, Inc., with particular contributions to ethical standards.

The National Network to End Domestic Violence, with particular contributions to the program standards, competency standards, and ethical standards addressing privacy, confidentiality, data security, and assistive technology.

The National Organization for Victim Assistance, with particular contributions to the mission statement, performance parameters throughout the program standards, and program standards on general victim services, general administration, personnel policies, staff development, and supervision.

The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, with particular contributions to program standards on accessibility, coordination, general victim services, confidentiality, general administration, personnel policies, and staff development; and to ethical standards.

Special thanks to the following individuals who contributed time and effort on the development of Model Standards (individuals are listed based on their affiliation at the time of their participation on this project):

Project Staff From the University of South Carolina

Dana DeHart, Principal Investigator
Pam Bond, Consultant and Co-Facilitator
Beck Sullivan, Media Director

Consortium Members, 2000–2001(and their affiliation at that time)

Nancy Arnow, Safe Horizon, NY
Paul Freeman, Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, GA
Denise Giles, Maine Department of Corrections, ME
Janice Harris Lord, Consultant on Crime Victims’ Issues, TX
Morna Murray, Victims’ Assistance Legal Organization, VA
Brian Ogawa, Office of the Attorney General, TX
Barbara Paradiso, Domestic Violence and Nonprofit Consultant, CO
Dan Petersen, Washburn University Center on Violence & Victim Studies, KS
Roberta Roper, The Stephanie Roper Committee and Foundation, Inc., MD
Delilah Rumburg, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, National Sexual Violence Resource Center, PA
John Stein, National Organization for Victim Assistance, DC
Ed Stout, Aid for Victims of Crime, Inc., MO
Steven Walker, California State University Center for Victim Studies, CA

Consortium Members, 2011–2012

Hope Blackley, Spartanburg Office of the Clerk of Court, SC
Jackie Buckley, United States Postal Inspection Service, IL
Sharon D’Eusanio, Victim Assistance & Disability Consultant, FL
Sheri Floyd, Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, IA
Barbara Grissom, South Carolina Department of Corrections, SC
Kim Herd, U.S. Attorney’s Office, DC
B.J. Horn, Victim Services Consultant, PA
Will Marling, National Organization for Victim Assistance, DC
Jennifer Wilson Marsh, Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network, DC
Angie McCown, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, TX
Karen Joyce-McMahon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, DC
Kevin O’Brien, National Center for Victims of Crime, DC
Barbara Paradiso, University of Colorado-Denver, CO
Dan Petersen, Washburn University, Joint Center on Violence & Victim Studies, KS
Mollie Ring, The SAGE Project, Inc., CA
Cindy Southworth, National Network to End Domestic Violence, DC
Sharon Stapel, NYC Anti-Violence Project, NY
Bette Stebbins Inch, Office of the Secretary of Defense, DC
Vicki Ybanez, Red Wind Consulting, Inc., CO

Reviewers, 2000–2001

Jeannette M. Adkins, Greene County Prosecutor’s Office, OH
Darrel Ashlock, Missouri Board of Probation & Parole, MO
Bud Balke, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, MO
Elizabeth Barnhill, Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, IA
Delores Bigfoot, University of Oklahoma Health Services Center, OK
Harold O. Boscovitch, Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, CA
Jayne Crisp, Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists, SC
Fran Danis, University of Missouri, MO
Anita Drummond, Alabama Council on Child Abuse, AL
Janet E. Fine, Suffolk County Attorney’s Office, MA
Stephanie Frogge, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, TX
Mario Gaboury, University of New Haven, CT
Lynn Hawkins, SAFE Homes Rape Crisis Coalition, SC
Ann Hutchison, Austin Police Department, TX
Jean E. Lewis, National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children, Inc., OH
Janice Harris Lord, Consultant on Crime Victim Issues, TX
Joyce Lukima, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, PA
Brett Macgargle, South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, SC
Juliene Maska, Kansas Attorney General’s Office, KS
Angie McCown, Texas Department of Public Safety, TX
Jill McFadden, Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault, CO
Mindy Mechanic, University of Missouri Center for Trauma Recovery, MO
Karen Parker, Texas Department of Human Services, TX
Robert G. Rightsell, Eleventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office, SC
Suzie Sawyer, Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc., MO
Anne Seymour, Private Consultant, DC
Nancy L. Simmons, Genesee County Sheriff’s Office, NY
Helen Smith, Chatham County Victim-Witness Assistance Program, GA
Emily Spence-Diehl, Florida International University, FL
Anne Tapp, Boulder County Safehouse, CO
Thomas Underwood, Washburn University Center on Violence & Victim Studies, KS
Shane VerPlanck, U.S. Attorney’s Office, ME
Kristen Vincent, Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault, GA
Carol R. Watkins, U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, DC
Zina Welch, Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, GA
Kathi West, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, TX
Susan Xenarios, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Crime Victim Treatment Center, NY

Reviewers, 2010–2011

Marti Anderson, Iowa Attorney General’s Office, IA
Jean Bruggeman, OVC Fellow, DC
Russell Butler, Maryland Crime Victims’ Resource Center, Inc., MD
Bethany Case, OVC Fellow, DC
Marci Davis, Davis Innovations, Inc., NM
Denise Giles, Maine Department of Corrections, ME
Roi Holt, U.S. Department of the Interior, DC
Stacy Koelbel, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, DC
Shari Konarske, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District, IA
Marie Martinez, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DC
Lauren Nassikas, U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, DC
William Petty, OVC Fellow, DC
Delilah Rumburg, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, PA
Debra Stanley, University of Baltimore School of Criminal Justice, MD
Jyl Shaffer, Vanderbilt University Police Department, TN
John Stein, International Organization for Victim Assistance, OR
Marlene Young, International Organization for Victim Assistance, OR