Promising Practices from Victims Services Providers’ COVID-19 Response: Protecting Victims and Those Who Serve Them
Abstract
To better understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has
affected the criminal justice system in terms of the
challenges it created and how agencies adapted to those
challenges, the Priority Criminal Justice Needs Initiative
conducted a series of panel workshops with representatives of diferent sectors within the system.1 One of the
key goals of the discussions was to identify which
adaptations presented promising practices that agencies should consider continuing beyond the COVID-19
pandemic. One such panel workshop brought together
both justice agency–based and community-based VSPs
and other experts to discuss how the pandemic has
afected VSPs and their respective responses. In addition,
a separate community workshop provided input on the
broader efects of changes made by VSPs and the justice
system more generally.
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Keywords
victim services, service providers, COVID-19, secondary traumatic stress
Citation
RAND. (2021). Promising Practices from Victims Services Providers’ COVID-19 Response: Protecting Victims and Those Who Serve Them. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.