Friday, September 18, 2015, Noon ET

Does your civil legal aid organization provide services through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA)? Fiscal Year 2015 saw an increase of more than $1 billion in VOCA funds allocated to states and territories, tripling the typical amount available in previous years.

With the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) publishing a detailed rule on holistic legal services to victims of crime for the VOCA program, now is the time for legal aid to advocate to become VOCA sub-grantees and to expand their VOCA work, and we are seeing some innovative approaches to making the case for legal services. This webinar will provide insight from OVC and into the national landscape of legal services for victims of crime and will highlight what civil legal aid has been doing as well as new approaches to enter the field.

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SPEAKERS:

• Helam Gebremariam, Counsel, Office for Access to Justice, U.S. Department of Justice 
• Kathrina Peterson, Attorney Advisor Detailee, Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice 
• Kelli Evans, Senior Director Administration of Justice, Office of Legal Services, The State Bar of California
• Laura Tuggle, Executive Director, Southeast Louisiana Legal Services
• Meg Garvin, Executive Director & Clinical Professor of Law, National Crime Victim Law Institute
• Reenie Terjak, Attorney & Advocacy Director, Colorado Legal Services

This webinar has been organized with support from the Public Welfare and Kresge Foundations. If you have any questions, please contact Arielle Altman at  or Radhika Singh Miller at .
 

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