The National Crime Prevention Council and the National Center for Victims of Crime are seeking applicants for the Youth Outreach for Victim Assistance (YOVA) project.  The YOVA project, entering its third year, seeks to raise awareness about teen victimization and services that can help teen victims of crime, and to provide resources to victim service providers so they can better reach and serve teen victims. 

 

NCPC and NCVC will select at least twenty new sites to participate in YOVA during the 2006-2007 school year.  Each site will receive no more than $3,000 to plan and implement a youth-led public awareness campaign.  Campaign projects may include public service announcements, poster campaigns, websites, workshops, and assemblies.  Each site selected to participate in YOVA will send two youth and one adult to a training in August 2006, and NCPC and NCVC will provide ongoing technical assistance to all sites.

 

To view the application due May 15 and learn more details about YOVA and the current YOVA sites, visit http://www.ncpc.org/programs/yova

 

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Rebecca K. Odor, MSW

Director of Sexual & Domestic Violence Prevention

Division of Injury and Violence Prevention

Virginia Department of Health

109 Governor St. #815G

Richmond VA  23219

of: 804-864-7740

fax: 804-864-7748

email: Becky.Odor@...

web: www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence