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Organizational Structure
About NOVA
NOVA was founded in 1975 by pioneer researchers and victim advocates in rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, prosecutors’ offices, law enforcement agencies, and community-based organizations. Its early activities were supported through the volunteer efforts and donations of its founders.
The Board of Directors: The staff often draws on the special skills of both elected and appointed Board members when responding to problems in the field and requests for assistance; the Board truly represents experienced leadership in what is still a continually expanding field of social service and jurisprudence. See our Board Member page for the current roster of elected and appointed Board members.
Staff: See our Staff page for our current roster of full-time and part-time paid staff members. NOVA also relies heavily on the services of local volunteers (of whom most have completed a 40-hour crisis counseling course), and a national volunteer corps of practitioners from fields as diverse as criminal justice, social service, the military, clergy, medicine, and mental health. In addition to those practitioners, who perform training and technical assistance on a wide array of victim-related topics, NOVA’s National Crisis Response Team database houses in excess of 7,000 volunteer crisis responders. NOVA, as a matter of philosophy and practicality, is committed to the continued involvement of volunteers from the community who are concerned about crime victims. NOVA is committed to an affirmative action plan for hiring staff. It is also committed to ensuring that all staff and volunteers have training in victim services. Currently, all NOVA staff members have had a minimum of forty hours training in victim crisis counseling and all have attended public speaking and training-of-trainers courses.
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