Public Awareness

This guide is now available to help you raise awareness in your community about victims’ rights and services during NCVRW (April 6–12, 2025) and throughout the year.

2025 NCVRW Sample Proclamation

Inspire your community and raise awareness of victims’ rights, services, and resources by using the 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week sample proclamation.

Now Available: 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Artwork

Use these materials to raise awareness about victims’ rights, services, and resources.

International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program 2020 Report to Congress

Date Published

2020

Agencies

OVC

International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program 2022 Report to Congress

Date Published

2022

Agencies

OVC

International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program 2021 Report to Congress

Date Published

2021

Agencies

OVC

International Terrorism Victim Expense Reimbursement Program 2023 Report to Congress

Date Published

2023

Agencies

OVC

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.

2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide

Discover tools and sample materials to help you raise awareness about crime victims' rights and services.

Funding Opportunity: Print Copies of OVC’s Child Victims and Witnesses Support Materials

Apply for to print and disseminate up to $10,000 worth of the materials.

2009 NCVRW Theme Video - 25 Years of Rebuilding Lives: Celebrating the Victims of Crime Act

April 2009

Series

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

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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Message From OVC Director Kristina Rose on the 40th Anniversary of VOCA

Director Rose shares this message about the Victims of Crime Act that supports vital services to help victims and survivors.

Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Victims of Crime Act

In recognition of the 40th Anniversary of the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), the Office for Victims of Crime has compiled a toolkit of resources about the history of VOCA, the Crime Victims Fund (CVF), the programs it supports, and its important role in the lives of victims and survivors of crime.

VOCA was signed into law on October 12, 1984. Among its provisions...