Crime Victim Service Center Advocate

Overview

Serve as the CVSC Region 8 Advocate under the Office of Crime Victims Advocacy Grant Program.

• Collaborate with Region 8 Crime Victim Service Center agencies to ensure comprehensive services as available and accessible to individuals who have been hurt or harmed.
• Provide guidance to other Region 8 crime victim service center advocates or volunteers as necessary.
• Ensure compliance with CVSC benchmarks with support from the CVSC supervisor.

Provide culturally appropriate advocacy services, legal and systems advocacy to clients (primary and secondary) who have been hurt or harmed and their children residing in Washington (Region
8), including (but not limited to):

• Crisis counseling and intervention; information and referral; emotional support and supportive advocacy; the assessment of individual needs and options; facilitate individuals’ awareness of the affective, behavioral, and cognitive effects of their experience and enhance their ability to cope/adjust; provide follow-up services/case management as appropriate;
• Emergency legal advocacy and assistance such as accompanying service participants to court; explaining civil legal processes and options; assisting in the completion of required paperwork; and conducting appropriate follow up. Emergency legal advocacy will include, but is not limited to: filing temporary restraining orders, injunctions, and other protective orders, elder abuse petitions, and child abuse petitions as they relate to general crimes;
• Criminal justice assistance and support;
  The provision of advocacy services to a service participant during any stage of the criminal justice process; includes post-sentencing services, support, and conducting appropriate follow up;
• Provision of systems advocacy including medical advocacy, personal advocacy; assist clients securing rights, remedies, and services from other agencies, intervening with employers, creditors, and others on behalf of the victim; providing information and assistance in filing for Crime Victims Compensation (CVC); provision of medical advocacy though hospital response and accompaniment;
• Document all direct services as required.