U.S. Department of Justice

Office of Justice Programs

Office for Victims of Crime

JANUARY 2002

Technical Assistance, Publications, and

Information Resources Unit

T

he Office for Victims of Crime’s

(OVC’s) Technical Assistance,

Publications, and Information Resources Unit (TAPIR) is responsible

for developing and disseminating information that supports victim service providers and allied professionals. This

important mission is achieved through

four TAPIR components.

Office for Victims

of Crime Resource

Center (OVCRC)

O VCRC is the field’s primary sourceof crime victim information. As a

component of the National Criminal

Justice Reference Service (NCJRS),

OVCRC has access to the most comprehensive criminal justice library in

the world. OVCRC produces, collects,

maintains, and disseminates information and resources for victim service

providers and allied professionals.

When you ask OVCRC for help, information specialists will tailor a response

based on your needs by using regional

and national victimization statistics, research findings, and a network of victim

advocates and organizations.

OVCRC staff attend local, state, and

national conferences to provide appropriate OVC resources and promote dialog about emerging issues in the victim

services field. In addition, OVCRC provides publications and resource materials for training workshops, seminars,

and conferences on request.

Information about victim-related issues

is available from OVCRC 24 hours a

day through the Internet and the

NCJRS Fax-on-Demand System. The

NCJRS home page (www.ncjrs.org) is

your gateway to information and publications from all Office of Justice 

Programs agencies and the White

House Office of National Drug Control

Policy.* Full text of many publications

is available through this site. You also

may order publications online through

NCJRS at www.puborder.ncjrs.org.

Announcements about current publications and developments in the criminal

justice field are published in the free

Justice Information (JUSTINFO)

electronic newsletter (virlib.ncjrs.org/

justinfo) distributed on the 1st and

15th of each month. Selected publications can be obtained through the 

Fax-on-Demand System. Call 1–800–

851–3420 and follow the instructions to

receive, by fax, a list of available publications. If you need help with online

services, more information on criminal

and juvenile justice topics, or technical

assistance, e-mail your query to

askncjrs@ncjrs.org.

*NCJRS supports all program offices and bureaus within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, which include the Office of the Assistant

Attorney General, Corrections Program Office, Drug Courts Program Office, Executive Office for Weed and Seed, Office for Domestic Preparedness, Office of the

Police Corps and Law Enforcement Education, Violence Against Women Office, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Institute of

Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and OVC. NCJRS also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Federal Emergency

Management Agency, and the National Institute of Corrections.
Training and

Technical Assistance

Center (TTAC)

O VC TTAC offers comprehensive,quality training and technical assistance resources to victim service providers

and allied professionals to help them

provide skilled, capable, victim-sensitive

assistance to crime victims. OVC TTAC

staff can identify mentors and expert

consultants, secure speakers for conferences and workshops, provide state-ofthe-art training on victim issues, find

facilitators for focus groups and strategic planning meetings, provide training

to expand the field’s understanding of

victim issues, and offer technical assistance for new and growing programs. In

addition, OVC TTAC offers users access to a consultant database via OVC’s

Web site. The database houses information on more than 250 consultants and

allows users to search by name, location, area of expertise, and/or language

proficiency. For a list of available trainings, please call OVCRC to request a

copy of the most recent OVC Training

Resource Guide or visit OVC’s online

conference calendar at www.ojp.usdoj.

gov/ovc/assist/events.htm and look for

the TTAC logo.

Education and

Outreach Component

T

he TAPIR Education and Outreach

Component supports initiatives and

dissemination strategies to maximize

the field’s access to OVC products and

resources. The component coordinates

OVC’s marketing strategy to distribute

useful and timely information, organizes

OVC’s conference support functions

worldwide through OVCRC, and maintains the calendar of OVC-sponsored

conferences that is listed on the OVC

Web site (www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/assist/

events.htm). In addition, this component is responsible for OVC’s Webbased training initiative as well as the

National and State Victim Assistance

Academy initiatives and OVC’s Professional Development Institute, an educational course for managers of victim

assistance programs. This component

also develops and maintains the OVC

Web site, including announcements of

new OVC publications and products.

Publications

Component

T

he TAPIR Publications Component

produces written documents and

other products developed by grantees,

as well as fact sheets and bulletins written by OVC staff. This component also

coordinates printing and dissemination

of OVC products. TAPIR staff offer

writing and editing services and other

prepublication support and provide

OVC’s discretionary grantees with

guidelines for submitting publications.

OVC publications include literature on

emerging victim issues, studies of promising practices and demonstration programs with national impact, guides for

policy development, and technical assistance and skill-building tools. OVC

also provides access to videos and other

resources designed to inform and assist

victim service providers and allied professionals in their efforts to respond to

crime victims. OVC has an extensive

library of grantee-produced videos,

many of which have received multiple

awards. Some of these videos are Special

Award for Courageous Response to Hate

Crime (Capital Region 2000 Emmy;

Silver Award, 2001 WorldFest Houston;

Silver Telly Award 2001; Bronze Omni

Award, 2001 Intermedia Awards),

Victims’ Voices: Silent No More (Bronze

Telly Award 1999; Certificate for

Creative Excellence, U.S. International

Film and Video Festival 1999; Award of

Distinction, The Videographer Awards

1999), A Balance To Maintain (Gold

Award, 1998 WorldFest Flagstaff;

Finalist, 1999 WorldFest Houston;

Finalist, The New York Festivals), and

Through My Eyes (First Place, Gold

Camera Award, U.S. International Film

and Video Festival 2000; Gold Award,

2000 WorldFest Houston; Gold Award,

1999 WorldFest Flagstaff; Gold Award,

CINDY 1999).

For a complete list of available OVC

publications and products, please call

OVCRC to request a copy of the most

recent OVC Publications Resource

Guide or visit www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/

publications/welcome.html.

For More

Information

F or more information about OVC initiatives, please contact

Office for Victims of Crime

U.S. Department of Justice

810 Seventh Street NW., Eighth Floor

Washington, DC 20531

202–307–5983

Fax: 202–514–6383

Web site: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc

For copies of this fact sheet, other OVC

publications, or information on additional victim-related resources, please

contact

Office for Victims of Crime Resource

Center (OVCRC)

P.O. Box 6000

Rockville, MD 20849–6000

1–800–851–3420 or 301–519–5500

(TTY 1–877–712–9279)

Web site: www.ncjrs.org

E-mail: askovc@ojp.usdoj.gov

Or order OVC publications online at

www.puborder.ncjrs.org.

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To discuss any of the resources managed

by TAPIR, please call OVC’s main

number, 202–307–5983, and ask for the

director of TAPIR.

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The Office for Victims of Crime is a

component of the Office of Justice

Programs, which also includes the Bureau

of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice

Statistics, the National Institute of Justice,

and the Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention.

www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc

The Office for Victims of Crime Web site now has

Consultant Database

Online Ordering

(Publications and Other Products)

2002 Training Calendar

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