(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;
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(2) Provide assistance to victims of violent crime
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(3) Provide elderly victims of crime with services
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| appropriate to their special needs;
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(4) Provide transportation and/or household
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| assistance to those victims participating in the criminal justice process;
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(5) Provide victims of domestic and sexual violence
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| and sexual harassment with services appropriate to their special needs;
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(6) Provide courthouse reception and guidance,
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| including explanation of unfamiliar procedures and bilingual information;
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(7) Provide in-person or telephone hot-line
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(8) Provide special counseling facilities and
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| rehabilitation services to victims;
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(9) Provide other services as the Commission shall
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| deem appropriate to further the purposes of this Act;
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(10) Provide public education on crime and crime
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(11) Provide training and sensitization for persons
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| who work with victims of crime;
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(12) Provide special counseling facilities and
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| rehabilitation services for child victims of sex offenses;
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(13) When applicable, centers shall enter into
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| written networking agreements to provide for the special needs of child victims of violent crimes;
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(14) Provide assistance in exercising rights provided
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| in the Roadside Memorial Act for the families of victims of fatal injury crashes on roadways.
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(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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