Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
22 November 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The group Moms Bonded By Grief went beyond the support-group work it has done for years for survivors of gun violence homicide victims to take 50 children and their mothers and grandmothers to a Poconos Mountains wate...
18 November 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
A New Way of Life gives formerly incarcerated women something that most did not get from prison: treatment for the trauma that so many incarcerated women suffered from domestic violence. As an antidote to a system gea...
5 November 2021
Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Outagamie County Youth and Family Services agency makes restorative justice dialogue available to the victims of crimes committed by juveniles. After preparation with a trained mediator, the two parties meet to di...
28 October 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Violence Intervention Program at Baltimore's Shock Trauma Center counsels victims of violence and links them to needed social services to try to keep them safe from future injury. Such hospital-based trauma care i...
25 October 2021
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Dvert is a partnership between Cincinnati police and Women Helping Women, a social services agency that puts domestic-violence survivors in touch with an advocate from the moment they report abuse. Advocates can provi...
11 October 2021
California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Since the 1990s, California prisons' victim-aid office has arranged for crime victims to meet with the incarcerated people who harmed them or their family members. These victim-offender dialogues, a restorative-justic...
4 September 2021
Nigeria
Text
800-1500 Words
Protests against alleged brutality and extrajudicial killings by Nigeria's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) led to demands for judicial panels of inquiry to investigate the abuses and provide justice to victims. Of N...
23 August 2021
Whitehall, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Congress created the U visa program in 2000 to encourage undocumented immigrants to report crimes to the police and cooperate with investigations and prosecutions. The visa legalizes an immigrant's status, if certifie...
3 August 2021
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A Florida constitutional amendment enacted in 2018 called Marsy's Law protects crime victims' rights, including the right to privacy when public-records laws would otherwise reveal victims' identity. But the Jacksonvi...
The Cut
Amelia Schonbek
21 July 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Among the many restorative justice programs in the U.S., the Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue program was one of the few to arrange face-to-face dialogue between survivors and men who had violently abused women. This f...
9 July 2021
Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As one of the oldest programs of its kind, the Illinois Crime Victim Compensation Program was created in 1973 to reimburse victims of crime and their families for their out-of-pocket expenses, such as funeral and medi...
17 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Stay-away orders are a tool New York judges can use to protect victims from their abusers even before accusations get scrutinized in court. They grew out of a reform movement that urged police and prosecutors to take ...
12 June 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Since 2014, all Austin police officers and cadets receive first-aid training, including the use of tourniquets and CPR. The training, which covers four weeks for cadets, is meant to provide stopgap, life-saving aid wh...
28 May 2021
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
When young people with criminal records get shot in Albuquerque, they may get visited by the police department's Violence Intervention Program: cops and counselors urging the victims to resist the impulse to retaliate...
18 May 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Worried for her Korean-immigrant parents' safety during rising anti-Asian hate crimes, a Los Angeles woman wrote and printed a booklet, "How to Report a Hate Crime." The booklet, now in nine languages and distributed ...
15 May 2021
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Text
800-1500 Words
In Mongolia's capital city, more than 600 people who staff the kiosks where most residents get their drinking water have been trained to spot signs of domestic abuse. The Smart Triangle program aims to overcome low ra...
13 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
In Philadelphia, public agencies and funding serve homicide victims' families. But grassroots groups target the enormous gaps in services for the survivors of gun violence, people whose unaddressed needs – medical, fi...
17 March 2021
Teton County, Wyoming, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
First responders who face devastating emergency response outcomes in Wyoming are finding support through the Teton Interagency Peer Support group. The group anonymously connects the first responders with trauma-inform...
13 March 2021
Nigeria
Text
1500-3000 Words
To combat high rates of sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria, the Spotlight Initiative supports several organizations providing counseling and educational services to victims and to women and girls at risk of a...
16 February 2021
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Text
1500-3000 Words
Since its April 2018 founding in Malaysia, the Be My Protector app has enabled interventions in 120 cases of suspected human trafficking, sparked by anonymous reports that its app enables. In about a third of those ca...
8 February 2021
Illinois, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Since 2017, two publicly funded trauma recovery centers in Illinois have helped violent-crime survivors cope with the emotional fallout that can accompany a loved one's murder or surviving their own violent attack. Ca...
30 January 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Next Step is a hospital-based violence intervention program based at Minneapolis' Hennepin County Medical Center that counsels gunshot victims to try to help lower the chances that they will be harmed again or seek to...
7 January 2021
United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The story of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act starts with a young legal aide to Sen. Joe Biden who did not identify as a feminist and knew little about the issues, but whose methodical building of a coali...
24 December 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A network of trauma recovery centers nationwide helps victims of violence and survivors of murder victims by focusing on their emotional, medical, and financial needs first. What started as a single healing center run...
9 December 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Behind the nightly protests against racism and police brutality on Portland's streets for more than five months stands a network of street medics and mutual aid groups dedicated to equipping and protecting protesters,...
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