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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I had written the National Organization for Victim Assistance back around 1992 to get a copy of their Directory of Victim Assistance Programs and Resources to get addresses for each state's various Victim Assistance programs to see what they would like to see in their various kinds of libraries. I wrote probably 15 to 35 of these in each state. Usually until I got a response from whichever agency was the one that supervised the work of the others and not for nothing. I sent out these letters in 1992. Mostly in that Summer.
I did get a lot of answers from just about every US state's agencies .
And then shared what I received with various associations involved with libraries of all kinds.
I recall I got a lot of responses from agencies in Minnesota, New Jersey and California.
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I had nothing but shared this with my interviewer at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Campus back in late 1992-1993 while a participant in a study on stress on the unemployed over 17 weeks. I drove down four times to meet with this woman and have blood drawn as subject #613.
I started using #613 along with #224 in a lot of my correspondence after being in this study.
The interviewer said I had a good cause but did not tell me this until after my last blood draw.
I also started writing Deans of various schools of public health as I saw this access to useful information for survivors of crimes as a public health problem.
I often saw this as just common sense and would describe my approach that way.