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The Victim and Witness
Advocacy Fund, established in the State Treasury by section
2 of P.L.1979, c. 396 (C.2C:43-3.1), administered by the Department
of Law and Public Safety through the Division of Criminal Justice,
pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the Director
of the Division of Criminal Justice, to support the development
and provision of services to victims and witnesses of crimes
and for related administrative costs, is hereby continued.
- The division is authorized
to continue disbursing moneys deposited in the Victim and Witness
Advocacy Fund to fund the operation of the State Office of Victim
and Witness Advocacy, the 21 county offices of Victim and Witness
Advocacy and to provide funding to other public entities as
deemed appropriate for the implementation of the Attorney General
Standards to Ensure the Rights of Crime Victims.
- In addition, the
division, pursuant to rules and regulations to be promulgated
by the director to ensure that funds are given to qualified
entities that will provide services consistent with this act,
shall award grants to qualified public entities and not-for-profit
organizations that provide direct services to victims and witnesses,
including but not limited to such services as:
- shelter, food
and clothing;
- medical and legal
advocacy services;
- 24-hour crisis
response services and 24- hour hotline;
- information and
referral and community education;
- psychiatric treatment
programs;
- expanded services
for victims' families and significant others;
- short and long
term counseling and support groups;
- emergency locksmith
and carpentry services;
- financial services;
and
- medical testing
ordered by a court pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1993, c.364
(C.2C:43-2.2).
- Organizations eligible
to apply for grants under subsection c. of this section include
but are not limited to:
- member programs
of the New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women, including
but not limited to
- Atlantic
County Women's Center;
- Shelter Our
Sisters, (Bergen County);
- Providence
House/Willingboro Shelter, (Burlington County);
- YWCA/SOLACE,
(Camden County);
- Family Violence
Project and The Safe House, (Essex County);
- People Against
Spouse Abuse, (Gloucester County);
- Battered
Women's Program, (Hudson County);
- Women's Crisis
Services, (Hunterdon County);
- Womanspace,
Inc., (Mercer County);
- Women Aware,
Inc., (Middlesex County);
- Women's Resource
and Survival Center, (Monmouth County);
- Jersey Battered
Women's Services, Inc., (Morris County);
- Passaic County
Women's Center, (Passaic County);
- Salem County
Women's Services, (Salem County);
- Resource
Center for Women and Their Families, (Somerset County);
- Domestic
Abuse Services, Inc., (Sussex County);
- Project Protect,
(Union County);
- Domestic
Abuse and Rape Crisis Center, Inc., (Warren County);
and
- Ocean County
Women's Center; and
- rape care services
and programs, including, but not limited to:
- Atlantic
County Women's Center, (Atlantic County);
- Bergen County
Rape Crisis Center, (Bergen County);
- Women Against
Rape, (Burlington County);
- Women Against
Rape, (Camden County);
- Coalition
against Rape and Abuse, (Cape May County);
- Cumberland
County Guidance Center;
- North Essex
Helpline and Sexual Assault Support Service, (Essex
County);
- Gloucester
County Rape Assault Prevention Program;
- Christ Hospital
Mental Health Center, serving Hudson County;
- Women's Crisis
Services, (Hunterdon County);
- Rape Crisis
Program Mercer County YWCA, (Mercer County);
- Rape Crisis
Intervention Center Roosevelt Hospital, (Middlesex County);
- Women's Resource
Center, (Monmouth County);
- Parenting
Center, Morristown Hospital, (Morris County);
- Ocean County
Advisory Commission on the Status of Women, (Ocean County);
- Passaic County
Women's Center, (Passaic County);
- Salem County
Rape Crisis Service, (Salem County);
- Rape Crisis
Service of Somerset and Richard Hall Mental Health Center
Somerset County Coalition for the prevention and Treatment
of Sexual Abuse;
- Project Against
Sexual Assault Abuse, (Sussex County);
- Union County
Rape Crisis Center;
- Domestic
Abuse and Rape Crisis Center, (Warren County); and
- Alternatives
to Domestic Violence of Hackensack, N.J. (Bergen County).s
- The Director shall
report annually to the Governor and the Legislature concerning
the administration of the Victim and Witness Advocacy Fund and
the administration and award of grants authorized by this section.
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