(725 ILCS 240/8) (from Ch. 70, par. 508)
Sec. 8. Centers - Services provided.
(a) Each center shall provide one or more of the following services:
(1) Coordinate volunteers to work with criminal
justice agencies to provide direct victim services or to establish community support;
(2) Provide assistance to victims of violent crime
and their families in obtaining assistance through other official or community resources;
(3) Provide elderly victims of crime with services
appropriate to their special needs;
(4) Provide transportation and/or household
assistance to those victims participating in the criminal justice process;
(5) Provide victims of domestic and sexual violence
and sexual harassment with services appropriate to their special needs;
(6) Provide courthouse reception and guidance,
including explanation of unfamiliar procedures and bilingual information;
(7) Provide in-person or telephone hot-line
assistance to victims;
(8) Provide special counseling facilities and
rehabilitation services to victims;
(9) Provide other services as the Commission shall
deem appropriate to further the purposes of this Act;
(10) Provide public education on crime and crime
victims;
(11) Provide training and sensitization for persons
who work with victims of crime;
(12) Provide special counseling facilities and
rehabilitation services for child victims of sex offenses;
(13) When applicable, centers shall enter into
written networking agreements to provide for the special needs of child victims of violent crimes;
(14) Provide assistance in exercising rights provided
in the Roadside Memorial Act for the families of victims of fatal injury crashes on roadways.
(b) Such centers may provide one or more of the services enumerated in subparagraph (a) of this section for witnesses of crime.
(Source: P.A. 97-108, eff. 7-14-11.)
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