Assists with safety planning and ensures victim's basic needs are being met

Provides qualified advocates to accompany crime victims to the hospital and all legal proceedings. Provides emotional support, explains procedures and can accompany the victim throughout this entire process.

Provides comprehensive victim services ranging from emergency shelter for survivors and their children fleeing violence, to community based services, advocacy, and support.

Provides basic orientation of criminal justice system and court room tours.

CVC strives to support and empower victims of crime/violence and their families through our comprehensive Direct Services Program. Services include accompaniment/advocacy to medical, police, and legal procedures, as well as supportive counseling and crisis response. Because suicide is still listed as a crime in Pennsylvania, those who lose a loved one to suicide may utilize free services at the Crime Victims Center.

Provides applications for compensation to eligible victims and assistance to complete these applications.

Provides forensic child interviews, medical exams, and services to reduce the trauma children experience during the investigation of abuse allegations.

Provides support and services to victims of all violence including sexual assault, their families and significant others. Offers support groups for rape survivors, children, pre-adolescents, teens, parents of sexually abused children, adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, male survivor's and homicide survivors. Other services include trained counselors who can accompany victims of violence to the emergency room, police departments or to court. Individual and support group counseling are available. Also provides education and resources on crime victimization and prevention for interested individuals and groups.

Provides support and services to victims of all violence including sexual assault, their families and significant others. Offers support groups for rape survivors, children, pre-adolescents, teens, parents of sexually abused children, adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, male survivor's and homicide survivors. Other services include trained counselors who can accompany victims of violence to the emergency room, police departments or to court. Individual and support group counseling are available. Also provides education and resources on crime victimization and prevention for interested individuals and groups.

Provides advocates who perform a variety of functions, including: offering comfort to patients in the trauma bay, updating families about their loved ones’ conditions, providing grief support to families of homicide victims, linking survivors to crime victim services, and offering emotional support to patients after they’ve been discharged from the hospital.

Provides accompaniment and assistance with a variety of paperwork and proceedings. A counselor/advocate is available to accompany and provide support to a victim when they go to the hospital to receive emergency treatment, when reporting the crime to the police, when completing victim impact statements or when appearing for legal proceedings. Additionally, an advocate can assist with filing an order for Protection from Abuse (PFA), Protection from Intimidation (PFI), and Protection of Victims of Sexual Assault (PSVI), restitution claims, and victim compensation claims.

Provides notifications to crime victims regarding: A) Parole eligibility B) Release programs C) Escape and subsequent recapture D) Transfers to a state mental health facility E) Death F) Participation in the inmate apology bank G) Applications for clemency (pardon or commutation).

Provides a Sexual Assault Response Team consisting of a nurse, AWARE advocate, and police officer providing compassionate care for adult victims of sexual assault through Mercer County hospital emergency departments 24/7.

Documents complaints of intimidation and forwards them to a detective. Also discusses safety planning.

Provides victims of domestic violence with assistance navigating through the legal system. Advocates provide the following services: assistance with legal options for domestic violence victims, court accompaniment to preliminary hearings (district court level), and systems advocacy to effect social change.

Provides advocacy, victim's rights groups, navigation assistance, and accompaniment for victims of abuse as they navigate the criminal justice system. Includes criminal justice navigation, police interview accompaniment, court accompaniment, post-conviction support, and victim compensation assistance program claim filing.

Offers support and information to prepare clients for a variety of appointments or legal proceedings that may be necessary to attend as a result of crime. Advocates are able to provide medical and legal accompaniment.

Assists victims and witnesses of crime. Services include case status information, referrals to social service agencies, and assistance with filing for crime victims compensation.

Provides a training program conducted by instructors for bar owners, employees, and interested patrons and is designed to identify and eliminate potential sexual aggression or violence.

Assists in identifying and protecting the rights of crime victims and witnesses. Services may include: Orientation to the Criminal Justice System, Case Status Information, Information and assistance relating to filing Crime Victims Compensation, Accompaniment to hospital, police, court, etc., Crises Intervention, Supportive Counseling, Emergency Child Care for Court Purposes, Employer/Creditor Intervention, Transportation for court purposes and more.

Provides advocacy and support services for crime victims and their loved ones.

Assists clients who qualify apply for crime victim compensation. Victims may qualify for monetary funds to help compensate for items like lost wages, medical expenses, therapeutic counseling, crime scene clean up, and other crime related losses.

Provides victims with the following: An Orientation to the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems; Accompaniment to Court Proceedings; Assistance with Filing a Crime Victims Compensation Claim; Assistance with Preparing a Victim Impact Statement; Notification of Case Status; Enrollment in the State and Local Correctional Release Notification Programs; Prior Comment on Possibility of Reducing or Dropping Charges; and Community Referrals.

Assists law enforcement, support agencies, individuals and the community during the first few hours of a crime, traumatic incident or community disaster.

Advocacy for the rights of all victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking to be free from harm in their homes, at their work, and on the streets. This includes both legal and economic advocacy.