Our Nation’s children and youth experience crime and victimization at alarming rates. OVC’s Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report found that these young victims are underserved, and the systems charged with caring for them provide fragmented and ineffective responses for children and their families. Through this project, OVC wants to learn how best to bring healthcare, child welfare, justice, and other systems together at a statewide level to coordinate and align efforts to ensure a timely and seamless response to young victims, their families, and caregivers, no matter the system of entry. The objectives are to: 1)Identify and promote healing for victims of crime. 2) Provide or coordinate prevention and intervention services to youth and families experiencing trauma and victimization and 3)Build capacity within communities to meet the needs of youth exposed to violence. Examples of actions include embracing our youngest victims and ensure that every young person who experiences victimization receives timely and meaningful responses and services; proactively identifying young victims and work integrally with their families and caregivers to provide for their array of needs and ensuring these young victims and their families are seton a path to healing and achieving their full potential in life.
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