LUBBOCK, Texas — The Crime Victim Coalition of West Texas held it’s second conference in Lubbock on Tuesday.
The coalition is composed of native regulation enforcement businesses and non- cash in teams that lend a hand crime sufferers in want.
The conference used to be held as a coaching for the businesses to collect new information and assets to raised lend a hand crime sufferers.
President of Crime Victim Coalition of West Texas, Kristi Thompson, advised The entiretyLubbock.com one thing as simply easy terminology can lend a hand crime sufferers when explaining felony issues.
“Acronyms that you hear when you’re dealing with the legal system that normal person doesn’t know.” Thompson stated, ” And so sufferer sufferer advocates want as a way to give that information to their purchasers. The felony device may be very difficult, and I’m positive we all know that it’s very, very difficult. And so the advocates lend a hand to set expectancies and to lend a hand the sufferers in the course of the procedure. They additionally lend a hand to empower the sufferer to have a voice in their tales and in their case, regardless of the case is also.”
Agencies corresponding to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (M.A.D.D) stated they’re thankful for those meetings.
Dawn Bevan from M.A.D.D. stated, “there was a lot of things in that that I had not heard of before, even though I’ve been working for MADD for almost 18 years and there’s some terms I’ve never heard of. So there’s always information in the legal justice and criminal justice system that you just don’t know about”
Thompson stated the total function of the conference is to get the regulation enforcement businesses and non-profit teams higher hooked up so they may be able to refer the crime sufferers to each other, if they want a definite group’s lend a hand.
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