Practices in Helping Victims in Indian Country

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Best Practices in Helping Victims in Indian Country:
November
16,
2005

On November 16th at 2 p.m. (eastern time), the Office
for Victims of
Crime
(OVC) will host a Web Forum discussion with Jo Hally
on assisting
victims of
crime in Indian Country. Mrs. Hally is the founder and
Executive
Director of
Native American Circle, Ltd. (NAC)-a nonprofit
corporation established
to
provide victim advocacy and training to urban and
Tribal Nation
programs
providing services to American Indian/Alaska Native
victims of violent
crime, including domestic violence, sexual assault,
and stalking. She
brings
more than twenty years of organizational,
administrative, and
managerial
experience to the field. Mrs. Hally wrote the first
edition of NAC's
handbook concerning domestic violence, sexual assault,
and stalking
crimes
in Native communities, and she is an outspoken
activist for the rights
of
battered women and speaks at national, regional, and
local conferences
and
seminars.

Mrs. Hally is of Choctaw (Chahta)/Cherokee (Tsaligi)
descent and is
adopted
to the Ware family, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma.

Visit the OVC Web Forum now at
ovc.ncjrs.org/ovcproviderforum to
submit questions for Mrs. Hally and return on November
16th at 2 p.m.
(eastern time) for the live discussion.

OVC's Web Forum allows participants to tap into a
national network of
people
with various backgrounds but all facing similar
challenges and
experiences.
It's the perfect place for crime victim service
providers and allied
professionals to gain peer insight and support related
to best
practices in
victim services.

Make connections. Share ideas. Change lives. Visit the
OVC Web Forum
today
at ovc.ncjrs.org/ovcproviderforum.

PUTTING VICTIMS FIRST.
OVC shares your mission and has a wide range of
resources to help you
accomplish it. Visit the National Criminal Justice
Reference Service
online
at www.ncjrs.gov to register for services or
call 1-800-851-3420
(TTY
1-877-712-9279 ) to find out more.