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NOVA has drawn to itself an expanding membership of some 5,500 agencies and individuals who forge within NOVA bonds of fellowship across diverse professions and interests. Its member services include an annual conference – the oldest such event in the worldwide victims’ movement – plus twelve annual issues of The NOVA Newsletter, periodic topical "Information Bulletins" and other benefits. The loyalty of NOVA’s members is based on their democratically-elected Board’s commitment to NOVA’s mission, and to the high standing their board, staff, and volunteers enjoy in the larger community.

The following is a sampling of NOVA’s Information Bulletins made available to the field:

NOVA has become the recognized umbrella group for national organizations, which have an interest in victim issues. It has served as the convener of a number of activities, including an annual North American Victim Assistance Conference every year since 1975, and, since 1981, the National Forum on Victim Rights, annually co-sponsored by a dozen or more national organizations. It was the initiator of National Victim Rights Week and of the coalition-building effort that led to replacing its annual "Victim Rights Week Kit" with a Victim Rights Week guide co-sponsored by 18 national organizations, with OVC’s support.

The NOVA Conference: each year, an annual conference is hosted for the membership as an opportunity to network, learn and share experiences concerning the victims’ movement. Since its early days, NOVA has striven to be on "the cutting edge" of victim issues, and the annual conference is recognized as the premiere conference to attend. Every year, NOVA continues to attract to the conference upwards of 2,000 victims, their allies and their advocates from every sector of the movement and every quarter of the globe – indeed, long formally called "The Annual North American Victim Assistance Conference," it has in recent years added the tagline, "And International Summit," in recognition of the contributions of several dozen international visitors who contribute to the work of the conference.

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