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Building Victim Assistance Networks With Faith Communities: Lessons Learned by the Vermont Victim Services 2000 Project
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The Need for Collaboration
Victim Needs From a Faith-Based Perspective
Elements of Collaboration
Lessons Learned
Program Startup, Relationship Building, and Sustainability
Cross Training
Lay Ministries

Enhanced Seminary Curricula

Faith Community Involvement in Task Forces and Community Initiatives
Public Education Opportunities
Interdisciplinary Approach
Issues Unique to Faith-Based Victim Assistance
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Lessons Learned

Faith leaders who attended the training sessions found the information valuable. When evaluating the overall effectiveness of the Faith Community Initiative's training model, however, organizers realized that taking a more collaborative approach—one that included presentations by clergy or lay members of a congregation who were already assisting crime victims—may have resulted in wider participation. Building this sense of ownership of and investment in the project was a valuable lesson learned. Other lessons learned focused on—


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