DOJ OFFICE OF CRIME VICTIM SERVICES CONDUCTS STATEWIDE NEEDS ASSESSMENT

In January 2007 the DOJ Office of Crime Victim Services, with the assistance of World Bridge Research, began conducting a statewide needs assessment of crime victim services with the intent to document the services currently available to crime victims in Wisconsin counties and tribes and to identify the unmet needs of victims around the state.  OCVS decided to undertake the needs assessment project because the Office administers several victim services grants, reimburses counties for victim/witness services, and compensates victims for certain crime related expenses.  The project is expected to be completed in late spring of 2008, and the resulting information will be used to enhance program planning and funding decisions in a variety of ways.

Phase One of the project involves point of contact interviews with a representative from law enforcement, human services, and victim/witness, who help to identify victim services that currently exist in their county.  From this list, selected victim service providers in each county are interviewed and asked to complete surveys.

In Phase Two of the needs assessment those who had been interviewed, as well as victim service providers, criminal justice professionals, victims, and interested community members are invited to attend a district meeting.  (For purposes of this project, OCVS has chosen to divide the state using the ten judicial administrative districts.)  At the district meetings the information collected in Phase One is presented and the unmet needs of victims are identified.  Priorities for these needs are collaboratively set by the meeting attendees and later by polling participants unable to attend the district meeting.

Phase Three of the assessment is a user friendly, on-line report containing the district and tribal information, as well as a statewide analysis of victim services and unmet needs.  OCVS found the reports prepared by World Bridge Research, which summarizes the data and recommendations collected in each district, to be incredibly rich with significant information that could be used in a variety of ways by individuals from many different disciplines. OCVS will certainly benefit from this wealth of information, but it is our intent that local communities and other state agencies also be able to use the resulting data and recommendations.  The district, tribal and statewide reports will all be accessible on the DOJ website as they are completed.

District 10 Report [PDF]

District 7 Report [PDF]

District 6 Report [PDF]

District 9 Report [PDF]

District 8 Report [PDF] 

District 1 Report [PDF]

District 5 Report [PDF]

District 4 Report [PDF]

District 2 Report [PDF]

District 3 Report [PDF]

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