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Project Name: Utah Victim Legal Services Network

Applicant: Utah Crime Victims Legal Clinic
Applicant Type: NonProfit
Application Number: 2012-40293-UT-VF
Funding Request: $400,000
Focus: Victims and Victimization, Crime Victimization
Location: UT
Areas Covered: State of UT

Summary:

Purpose of Project: This project will enhance crime victim healing and recovery by identifying unmet (and insufficiently met) crime-related needs for legal services of victims throughout Utah. Once needs and barriers are identified, this project will develop and test in Utah a collaborative network of victim legal services providers to fill those unmet needs and enable seamless victim interaction with those victim legal services. The model network will be replicable in other states.

Project’s Goal and Objectives: The project will establish a coordinated, collaborative, and holistic legal response in Utah to meet the range of legal needs stemming from crime victimization. The project will:

  1. Design and conduct a needs assessment of crime victim legal needs in Utah.
  2. Meet those needs by designing and testing a statewide network of legal services providers.

Activities and Methods:

  1. Regular meetings of partner organizations to design and supervise the needs assessment.
  2. Surveys and interviews of victims and providers to determine unmet legal needs.
  3. Regular meetings of partner organizations to review research and design a network.
  4. Testing of the designed network to determine whether it effectively meets needs.

Outcomes:

  1. Sound victim legal needs research.
  2. A replicable statewide network of victim legal services.
  3. Better victim outcomes due to seamless and comprehensive legal assistance.
  4. Reduced impact of victimization.

For Further Information:
Heidi Nestel
Executive Director
124 S 400 E
Suite 210
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
heidi@utahvictimsclinic.org
(801) 746-1204

Application Submitted in Response to Solicitation: Wraparound Victim Assistance Network Demonstration Project
Grants.gov Assigned Number: OVC-2012-3190