Albion Fellows Bacon Center Receives Community Awareness Project Funding  for 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week 

 Evansville, IN – Albion Fellows Bacon Center has received funding from the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA) through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to promote community awareness of crime victims’ rights and services during the 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.

 The awarded funding will be used to host victim services tables at local courthouses and a Victims’ Rights outreach fair at Eastland Mall as part of a Community Awareness Project in Vanderburgh, Warrick, Posey, and Gibson Counties. The Project is part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, an annual observance that takes place April 23-29, 2023.

 “The support from NAVAA and OVC for our 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities will help us help crime victims,” said Ashley McReynolds, Director of Engagement and Resource Development.  “Members of our community are encouraged to help promote justice through service to crime victims by joining our 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities 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.  The theme for 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is “Survivor Voices:  Elevate, Engage, Effect Change”.

Since 2004, the NCVRW Community Awareness Project has provided financial and technical assistance to more than 1500 community projects that promote victim and public awareness activities, and innovative approaches to victim outreach and public education about victims’ rights and services during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Albion Fellows Bacon Center (with collaboration from partners such as Holly’s House, Willow Tree, Parenting Time Center, Lampion Center, YWCA, Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, Vanderburgh and Posey Prosecutor’s Offices) was one of the 89 recommended by NAVAA and selected for funding by OVC for 2023 from the 151 applications that were submitted nationwide.