Victim Services Program

Victim Services

The EHNBAC provides direct intervention to individuals and families who are victims/witnesses of violent crimes in New York City. We turn no one away and we are not restricted to specific catchment areas. Our culturally-competent services utilize a trauma-informed approach to service delivery, thereby helping our clients feel safe. This evidence-based model has proven to be effective when serving the underserved victims of crime. Our approach is based on the experience we learned from providing services to victims since 1993.

We immediately address our participants’ immediate crisis through intensive case management and work to help prevent re-victimization. The EHNBAC assists in the resolution of monetary compensation by filling out the New York State Office of Victim Services (OVS) Compensation Claim Forms. We assist in the resolution of cases involved in the criminal justice system by accompanying participants to precincts, Family and Criminal Courts, and the District Attorney’s Office.

We also provide benefits access support, transportation to safe housing and domestic violence shelters, hospital visits, and make managed referrals to other resources and services such as group and individual counseling to restore self-esteem and a sense of dignity and coping mechanisms, food pantries, and clothing or diapers, when needed.