Now Available: 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Color Palette and Theme Posters
Use these materials to raise awareness about victims’ rights, services, and resources.
National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW)
2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide
The 2025 NCVRW artwork is now available online to help your organization plan its public awareness activities in advance of, and during, NCVRW: April 6–12, 2025.
2007 NCVRW Theme Video - Victim's Rights: Every Victim. Every Time
April 2007
In this video, victims of crime give accounts of their experiences with the criminal justice system. The video also discusses advances in crime victims' rights and reinforces the importance of including crime victims in the criminal justice process. Visit the NCVRW site for more information.
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2008 NCVRW Theme Video - Justice for Victims. Justice for All.
April 2008
In this video, victims of crime give accounts of their experiences and convey their message that victims have the right to be heard and the right to be treated with fairness. Visit the NCVRW site for more information.
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2010 NCVRW PSA—Be The One
April 2010
This public service announcement, developed as part of the 2010 National Crime Victims' Rights Week Resource Guide, urges you to ask, listen, believe, care, and be the one to take the first step toward getting help for a child who has been hurt by crime. Visit the NCVRW site for more information.
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2010 NCVRW Theme—Crime Victims' Rights: Fairness. Dignity. Respect
April 2010
This video reminds victims, service providers, allied professionals, and the public that, above all, crime victims deserve to be treated with fairness, dignity, and respect. Visit the NCVRW site for more information.
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2011 NCVRW Theme Video—Reshaping the Future, Honoring the Past
April 2011
This video pays tribute to the millions of crime victims and honors the victim service community. Attention is drawn to the future of crime victim services and the changing face of crime. Visit the NCVRW site for more information.
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2012 NCVRW Theme Video—Extending the Vision: Reaching Every Victim
April 2012
This video is a call to action to revisit, revive, and expand the vision of the crime victims' movement to reach all victims, including victims of new crime types resulting from changes in technology, globalization, and demographics in our society. Visit the NCVRW site for more information.
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2009 NCVRW Theme Video - 25 Years of Rebuilding Lives: Celebrating the Victims of Crime Act
April 2009
This video serves as a tribute to crime victims and the advocates and public servants who work with them, and discusses the advances made in crime victims' rights and services since the passage of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984.
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Funding Opportunity: 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Projects
The National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA), in cooperation with OVC, is seeking proposals for innovative and collaborative approaches to promoting community‐wide public awareness of the rights and available services for victims of all types of crimes during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), April 6–12, 2025.
The 2025 NCVRW theme is—
Connecting < KINSHIP > Healing
Successful applicants will be awarded up to...
2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Dates and Theme
Every April, OVC leads communities throughout the country in their annual observances of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW).
Through NCVRW we honor crime victims and survivors, recognize the professionals and volunteers who provide critical services to victims of crime, and raise awareness about crime victims’ rights and services.
We are pleased to announce that NCVRW will be commemorated April 6–12, 2025, with the...
August 2024 Featured Resources
This featured news content includes information about resources for supporting victims of labor trafficking, training and technical assistance opportunities, and OVC resources to help victims.
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery From OVC Director Kristina Rose: NOVA’s 50th Annual Training Event
Director Rose speaks about the future of victim advocacy and recognized the inaugural cohort of the first-ever Victim Advocacy Corps.
From the Director’s Desk, July 11, 2024
July 2024
Series
OVC Director Kristina Rose shares information about the 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the Crime Victims Fund, upcoming meetings and events, recent site visits, and more!
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July 2024 Featured Resources
This featured news content includes information about the National Crime Victims’ Service Awards, the special July edition of From the Director’s Desk, World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, and the Back to Basics Microlearning Video Series.
From the Director's Desk, June 13, 2024
June 2024
Series
OVC Director Kristina Rose shares information about 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the recently released OVC FY24 Meeting the Basic Needs of Crime Victims in Underserved Communities solicitation, the Crime Victims Fund, the 40th Anniversary of the Victims of Crime Act, a recent site visit, and more!
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Message From the Director: OVC Funding Opportunities
Director Rose talks about two solicitations OVC is offering in 2024.
June 2024 From the Director’s Desk Briefing Now Available
Listen for updates about 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the Crime Victims Fund, the 40th Anniversary of the Victims of Crime Act, and more!
OVC FY24 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Community Awareness Projects (2025–2027)
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The goals of this project are to increase public awareness of crime victims’ rights and services nationwide during the 2025–2027 National Crime Victims’ Rights Weeks and strengthen the capacity of victim assistance agencies to develop a broad, collaborative approach to community awareness that highlights services for all types of crime victims.
Hope Research Center | 2024 National Crime Victims' Service Awards
April 2024
The Hope Research Center partners with service organizations to develop, test, and implement a trauma-informed and hope-centered framework to improve outcomes for victims and their families. This research also examines hope as a protective factor against burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and turnover among service providers. The Center offers hope research strategies, including evaluations and applied research projects customized to the needs of an organization and focused on improving program services and achieving client outcomes.
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Angela McCown, LMFT | 2024 National Crime Victims' Service Awards
April 2024
Angela McCown is director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Victim Services Division (VSD), has more than 30 years of experience in the victim services field, and has helped hundreds of thousands crime victims participate in the criminal justice system and thousands of the professionals who serve them. Under Ms. McCown’s direction, the TDCJ VSD has implemented a variety of innovative strategies and programs to better meet the needs of crime victims.
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Herman Millholland | 2024 National Crime Victims' Service Awards
April 2024
Herman Millholland is an independent consultant with more than 22 years of comprehensive management experience specializing in criminal justice and victim services initiatives. As a consultant and national victim advocate, Mr. Millholland uses his strategic planning, financial management, board and fund development, and training and technical assistance experience to provide guidance and advice on public policy matters.
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Michelle S. Ballan, Ph.D., MSW | 2024 National Crime Victims' Service Awards
April 2024
Michelle Ballan is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Social Welfare; Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at Renaissance School of Medicine; Research Director for the Stony Brook Early Childhood Clinic; and Director of the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) Center at Stony Brook University. Her research and practice focus on the identification and amelioration of barriers impacting the health and well-being of individuals with disabilities and their families. Her groundbreaking work has led to numerous publications delineating the negative impact of intimate partner violence on men and women with disabilities and best practices for service provision.
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Aswad Thomas, MSW | 2024 National Crime Victims' Service Awards
April 2024
Aswad Thomas is a community organizer, crime victim advocate, public safety policy expert, and a survivor of gun violence. Throughout his career, Mr. Thomas has brought unprecedented awareness of the unique and urgent needs of victims who are most impacted by crime and violence but who have been historically underserved, with a focus on addressing unaddressed trauma.
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