Domestic and Sexual Violence Resource Center

About the Program

Category: Criminal Justice and Public Safety (Best in Category)

Year: 2021

The Chesterfield Domestic and Sexual Violence Resource Center (DSVRC) is a unit of government, serving victims of domestic and sexual violence, dating violence and stalking in Chesterfield County. In 2019, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) awarded a Victims of Crime Act, Victim Service Grant Program (VOCA/VSGP) grant to the DSVRC, funding an additional advocate and a senior clinician. Beginning October 1, 2019, the Chesterfield Domestic and Sexual Violence Resource Center established new clinical service and enhanced existing advocacy services.The new and enhanced services addressed prevailing service gaps: absence of trauma-informed clinical services, and understaffed advocacy services for victims of domestic and sexual violence, dating violence and stalking.The addition of a senior clinician provided the foundation to establish no-cost individual and group therapeutic services, previously unavailable in Chesterfield County.The addition of a second advocate enhanced and increased existing advocacy services including: protective order assistance, civil court accompaniment, comprehensive victim assistance, thorough safety planning and risk assessments, case management and victim accompaniment to protective order appeals in an additional court.