Diversion First Stakeholders Meeting Sept. 22, 2020
CVAD vision draft
1. CrimeVictims Assistance Division (CVAD)
Mission
Advocating for the rights and the needs of crime victims and ensuring
that all victims and survivors will be treated with dignity and respect
12/6/2016 DRAFT
2. Vi-sion
noun
the faculty or state of being able to see
State – ment
Noun
a definite or clear expression of something in
speech or writing
As - pire
Verb
direct one’s hopes or ambitions of achieving
something great
3. Vision
CVAD aspires to reduce the number of Iowans who
become crime victims and to ensure that any Iowan who
becomes a victim will receive immediate access to high
quality, effective, and culturally appropriate victim
centered services
4. CVAD leadership will model stewardship, promote best practices
and make investments in systematic and coordinated efforts that
educate and promote awareness of crime victim issues and needs,
enhances the access and alignment of traditional and non-
traditional resources within the broader community, uses
technology to better inform and achieve efficiencies, and seeks
innovative ways to build capacity in victim centered services
5. CrimeVictims Services Division
1. CrimeVictim Compensation
2. Victim Services Support
3. Sexual Examination
Payment
4. Iowa Crisis ResponseTeam
5. IowaVINE
6. Iowa IdentifyTheft
Passport
7. Iowa Protective Order for
Domestic Abuse
8. Registrant Watch
Office of the Attorney General
• Administrative Services
• Area Prosecutions
• Consumer Protection
• CrimeVictim Assistance
• Criminal Appeals
• Environmental Law
• Farm
• Licensing,Administrative Law
• Regents, Human Services
• Revenue
• Special Litigation
• Transportation
• Utilities Consumer Advocate
7. Victim
Assistance
Funds
FY 2015
Estimated
FY 2016
Dept. Request
FY 2016
Governor’s Recc.
FY 2017
Dept. Request
FY 2017
Governor’s
Recc.
July 1, 2014 to
June 30, 2015
July 1, 2015 to
June 30, 2016
July 1, 2016 to
June 30, 2017
July 1, 2017 to
June 30, 2018
July 1, 2018 to
June 30, 2018
State
Appropriation
$6,734,400 $6,734,400 $6,734,400 $6,734,400 $6,734,400
Federal
support
$6,270,544 $6,270,544 $6,270,544 $6,270,544 $6,270,544
Intrastate
Receipts
$1,150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 150,000
Total
Resources
$15,226, 491 $14,226,491 $14,226,491 $14,226,491 $14,226,491
Static resources
One time reserve
fund use
8. Budget Challenges
• Local programs impaired in
serving all victims
• $1M reduction in state &
federal funding in FY 13. Short
term fix - victim
compensation reserves
• Potential reduction of $2.4M
in FY 14 due to federal cuts
Potential Impacts
• Reduction of 33 FTES statewide
• 25% of centers to close or reduce
• Shift - reduction in shelter clients
(40% urban, 17% rural,
respectively)
• Of the estimated* 55,340
individuals who experienced
sexual violence only 8% received
services – or 92%, 50,912 Iowans
did not receive support
9. Strategic Funding and Services Plan
Input
• Public meetings with key
partners, experts, public
• Assure all victims served
• Equitable statewide
distribution of available
funding
Result
• Each region to have a 1 to 2
combination of services for:
• Shelter Based
• Domestic Abuse
Comprehensive
• Sexual Abuse Comprehensive
• Culturally Specific
11. Crime andVictims in the United States Bureau of Justice
Statistics’ NationalCrimeVictimization Survey (NCVS)
• Gaps in our knowledge still exist, particularly for emerging
crimes … elder victimization, human trafficking, mass violence
• An additional issue concerns our broader understanding of the
effects of crime … measuring the direct harm to victims and
identifying the impact of exposure to violence, particularly for
children
• Young people (age 16−24) experience the most crime - in terms
of victimization and offending
12. On one day in 2014 -
Iowa domestic violence
programs served 853
victims/survivors;
another 133 were turned
away due to lack of
resources
In about 85% of sexual
assaults, the perpetrator
and victim are
acquainted
68% of sexual assaults
are not reported to
police
17.3% of Iowa women
are stalked during their
lifetimes
1 in 2 women, 1 in 5 men and 1 in 2 trans
identifying individuals experience some
form of sexual violence
13. CVAD models and
promotes core
operating principles
that are based on
best practices and
which place the
needs of the victim
at the forefront of
the system
Operating Principles
15. CVAD ensures all
resources are used in
compliance with
statutory and rule
requirements and any
other oversight
necessary to protect
and discharge these
assets in a responsible
and transparent
manner.
Oversight
17. CVAD invests in victim
centered service pathways and
services which ensure there is
“no wrong door” through
which a victim may identify,
access and obtain high quality
services, and that these
pathways are made more
sustainable when aligned and
delivered in the construct of a
broader educated community.
Alignment
19. CVAD recognizes that
targeted communication is
critical to successfully
engaging the support and
participation of key
partners and stakeholders
in achieving the stated
vision and objectives, just
as much as other functions
like operations and
professional development
Educate
21. CVAD invests in
technology to free up
resources for mission
centered work and to
support data driven
decision making by
state and regional
partners. CVAD
underscores
technology does not
over ride privacy and
confidentiality
Efficiencies & Inform
23. CVAD actively seeks
out innovative and
collaborative
opportunities to
augment victim
centered services
including
evaluation, delivery
improvement and
professionalization
of resources
Sustain
25. Operating
Principles
Alignment Education Inform Oversight Sustain
Ethics &
Definitions
Direct
Services &
Outreach
Needs
Assessment
Data Needs &
Gaps
Assess
Controls
Other Options
Leadership Strengtheni
ng Programs
Communication
Plan
Identify
Priorities
Identify
Risk
Exposure
Admin. Model
Governance Community
Partnerships
State Portal Technology
Plan
Low
Hanging
Fruit
Grant writer
Training Building
Capacity
Evaluate &
Sustain
Evaluate &
Sustain
Long Term
Goals
Implement &
Evaluate
Eight programs, twenty four staff
Victim Services supports community based and system based services
All cities and towns (urban and rural) have advocacy and outreach coverage. Mobile coverage for rural areas.
2009 study estimated 55,340 individuals who experienced sexual violence only 8% received services – or 92%, 50,912 Iowans did not receive support
The number of sexual assault/abuse victims in Iowa that are being reached and served by our VSS funded programs increased by 40% from SFY14 to SFY15 (5,158: 7,234). These are extraordinary statistics highlighting the number of sexual assault/abuse victims being served in this new model of services.
