Victim Assistance Field and the Profession of Social Work Bulletin

摘要

Victims of Crime: A Social Work Response: Building Skills To Strengthen Survivors, a 3-year demonstration project from 1999 to 2002, was funded through a discretionary grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). Its goal was to enhance the capacity of professional social workers to respond to the needs of adult victims of violent crime. The grantee, the Texas chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW/Texas), collaborated with the University of MissouriColumbia School of Social Work and the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work to develop the project. It pilot-tested materials at the state level that can be used and replicated by state National Association of Social Workers (NASW) chapters; other national, state, and local professional associations; and social work degree programs across the Nation.