Clark announces national grant to promote victim’s rights
District Attorney General Dave Clark has received funding from the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime, within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to promote community awareness of crime victims’ rights and services during the 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
The awarded funding will be used to promote a crime victims Candlelight Vigil and Resource Fair on April 30 in Anderson County as a community awareness project. The Project is part of an annual observances that takes place April 24-30, 2022.
“The support from [these agencies] for our 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities will help us help crime victims, “ said Clark. “Members of our community are encouraged to help promote justice through service to crime victims by joining our Candlelight Vigil and Resource Fair and supporting victim assistance programs on a daily basis.”
First designated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week increases general public awareness of, and knowledge about the wide range of rights and services available to people who have been victimized by crime.
Since 2004, the community awareness project has provided financial and technical assistance to communities to promote victim and public awareness activities, and innovative approaches to victim outreach and public education about victims’ rights and services during National Crime Victims’ Right Week.
The Anderson County Crime Victims Candlelight Vigil and Resource Fair was one of the 50 recommended by the association and selected for funding for 2022 from applications that were submitted nationwide.
For information about national efforts to promote 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, please visit the Office for Victims of Crime website at ovc.gov.
The National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators is a nonprofit organization that represents the 56 state agencies that distribute money from the federal Victims of Crime Act Crime Victims Fund to more than 4,000 direct victim assistance service providers.
The money in the Crime Victims Fund comes from fines collected from offenders convicted of federal crimes, and not from U.S. taxpayers.