This is a work in progress for access to information about support systems. Since 2000, I have been interested in getting libraries in FL of all types linked to the FL Victim Services Directory. http://myfloridalegal.com/directory. I have written many librarians in all types of libraries all over Florida attempting to get a link to this resource from various libraries' web-pages. There have been successes over the past 7 years with various libraries around Florida since 2000 but unfortunately this work has not had much of an impact in many areas. As I said, I have been at this since 2000 and had even tried to get many other states' authorities to look at this FL Directory and perhaps get something like this for their states' citizens. Started this work also in 2000 of contacting other states' authorities. You can see that I have not made much progress in this if you Google various library systems in the states of the US and see these library systems have links to their respective states' victim service directories if they even have one of these.

Hope some other Villages will get interested in this matter? Seems like a very useful thing to do with your free time? An easy way to look up various states' library systems is with this kind of resource. This one is for Minnesota-- http://www.publiclibraries.com/minnesota.htm I had written pretty much every library on their with a web-site and/or working e-mail address for Minnesota about this link for accessing information to help crime victims. I chose Minnesota because I had gone to law school at the U of MN and had worked in law librarianship in Minnesota at the U of MN as well as in public librarianship at the Minneapolis Public Library.

I had been interested in doing something about lack of access to practical information for crime victims after discovering this niche following the murder of my then high school English teacher's daughter Michelle M., in Reno, Nevada in February of 1976. This 1976 Reno, NV murder was actually on my birthday of February 24. I had tried to enlist public health officials from 1993 onward in doing something about this niche-- which was still very much there-- after taking part in a 17 week study at the University of California San Francisco Medical School as subject number 6 1 3. I have often used these two numbers (2 2 4 and 6 1 3) to tell my story about trying to push this matter of filling this niche into the limelight at the 5 schools (U Nev Reno, Brigham Young U, Denver U, College of San Mateo, U of MN) I attended while getting 4 degrees (BA, BA, MA, JD). I had tried to do something about this niche on and off from 1976 onward but met a lot of obstacles. Even wrote a bunch of politicians (Republican, Democrat, and Independent) in 1991 about this and matters related to my concern for this issue of doing something about this niche.

I could use more help with this matter and hope that Villages are interested? Some have thought that I could use some mental health help for being so driven by this matter, but that's another issue. It takes a Village to heal a survivor.

This is a list of states' victim services directories or other such resource lists. Some states do not seem to have anything like the Florida Victim Services Directory.

ALABAMA http://www.ago.state.al.us/victim_links.cfm
ALASKA http://www.dps.state.ak.us/CDVSA/links.aspx
AMERICAN SAMOA Cannot locate one.
ARIZONA http://www.azvictims.com/domestic/services.asp
ARKANSAS http://www.acic.org/justice/ -- Appendix
CALIFORNIA http://www.dhs.ca.gov/PS/cdic/epic/fvrefer/orange.htm
COLORADO http://cova.civicore.com/
CONNECTICUT http://www.jud.ct.gov/crimevictim/
DELAWARE http://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/...ms_phone.shtml http://dsp.delaware.gov/vs.shtml
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1...dcNav,%7C,.asp
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA Cannot locate one.
FLORIDA http://myfloridalegal.com/directory
GEORGIA http://www.ganet.org/cjcc/vsdirectory.html
GUAM Cannot locate one.
HAWAII http://www.hawaii.gov/ag/cpja
IDAHO http://www.idvsa.org/index.cfm
ILLINOIS http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/dvsa/
INDIANA http://www.in.gov/cji/comp/links.html
IOWA http://www.doc.state.ia.us/VictimCommunityReferrals.asp
KANSAS http://www.ksag.org/content/page/id/198
KENTUCKY http://ag.ky.gov/victims/state.htm
LOUISIANA http://www.lcle.state.la.us/programs/cvr.asp
MAINE http://www.maine.gov/ag/?r=crimeandvictims
MARSHALL ISLANDS Cannot locate one.
MARYLAND http://www.oag.state.md.us/victim.htm
MASSACHUSETTS http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=cagosubt...ctims&sid=Cago
MICHIGAN http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/1,1607,...184---,00.html
MINNESOTA http://www.dps.state.mn.us/OJP/MCCVS...ory/Search.asp
MISSISSIPPI Does not really have one-- http://www.ago.state.ms.us/resources/
MISSOURI http://ago.mo.gov/crimevictims/victimadvocates.htm
MONTANA http://www.gallatin.mt.gov/Public_Do...mwit/Resources
NEBRASKA None available but useful link with information http://www.ncc.state.ne.us/.
NEVADA http://www.doc.nv.gov/victims/index.php
NEW HAMPSHIRE http://www.justiceworks.unh.edu/Apri...%20Version.pdf
NEW JERSEY http://www.state.nj.us/lps/nj_crisis_hotlines.htm http://www.njcbw.org/guide.htm
NEW MEXICO http://corrections.state.nm.us/victim/resources.html
NEW YORK http://www.cvb.state.ny.us/HelpforCr...eaProgram.aspx
NORTH CAROLINA http://connectednc.net/nc-van/directory/
NORTH DAKOTA http://www.ndcrimevictims.org/programs.htm
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Cannot locate one.
OHIO http://www.ag.state.oh.us/victim/directory.asp
OKLAHOMA http://www.oag.state.ok.us/oagweb.nsf/v-resource.html
OREGON http://www.doj.state.or.us/crimev/directory_vso.shtml
PALAU Cannot locate one.
PENNSYLVANIA http://www.pccd.state.pa.us/pccd/lib...l_handbook.pdf
PUERTO RICO Cannot locate one.
RHODE ISLAND http://www.ricadv.org/
SOUTH CAROLINA http://www.govoepp.state.sc.us/sova/links.html
SOUTH DAKOTA None available.
TENNESSEE http://www.etvictimsrights.org/helphone.html
TEXAS http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/victim/r...rces6-1-05.pdf
UTAH http://www.udvc.org/linkline_advocat...%20services%22
VERMONT http://www.ccvs.state.vt.us/
VIRGIN ISLANDS Cannot locate one.
VIRGINIA http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/victims...eDirectory.cfm
WASHINGTON http://www.doc.wa.gov/victims/default.asp
WEST VIRGINIA http://www.wvdoc.com/wvdoc/VictimSer...4/Default.aspx
WISCONSIN http://www.doj.state.wi.us/cvs/referrals/
WYOMING http://www.wycrimevictims.org/serviceproviders.html

US Military-- http://www.sapr.mil/



In process of checking currency of links. February 8, 2008 + Also posted this on the Findlaw Criminal Law message board on January 3, 2008.