April 24, 2024 by Natalie Cochran
April 21-27, 2024 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week – How Would You Help?
Every year in April, the Office for Victims of Crime leads communities and organizations like Lone Star Legal Aid in the annual observance of National Crime Victims’ Right’s Week (NCVRW). This year’s theme is How Would You Help?
The week-long campaign promotes victim’s rights and those who advocate on their behalf. Raising awareness on crime victims’ rights helps victims rebuild their lives and remain hopeful for recovery. Join the movement in seeking justice, ensuring their rights and inspiring hope.
You might ask if Lone Star Legal Aid is victim-centered and trauma-informed. Yes, we have a unit dedicated to crime survivors. Our attorneys and paralegals create safe environments for survivors to share their experiences. By doing so, we can offer legal remedies as well as resources to these clients. Not only does legal aid offer protection, safety, and justice, but it also provides peace of mind.
We also offer a website connecting survivors of crime to legal and supportive service providers in Texas. The Texas Crime Victim Legal Assistance Network brings together a diverse range of service providers who on their own cannot provide all services to crime survivors who by working together can offer a broad spectrum of legal and non-legal support services that are essential to helping survivors recover.
Keep an eye out for this month’s KPFT radio segment on CVRW.
If you or someone you know is a victim of crime and need legal assistance, please apply online at www.lonestarlegal.org or by calling our toll free number at (800) 733-8394.
If you or a loved one would like to explore other resources, you can visit Texas Crime Victim Legal Assistance Network.
Lone Star Legal Aid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm focused on advocacy on behalf of low-income and underserved populations. Lone Star Legal Aid serves the millions of people at 125% of federal poverty guidelines that reside in 72 counties in the eastern and Gulf Coast regions of Texas, and 4 counties of southwest Arkansas. Lone Star Legal Aid focuses its resources on maintaining, enhancing, and protecting income and economic stability; preserving housing; improving outcomes for children; establishing and sustaining family safety and stability, health and well‐being; and assisting populations with special vulnerabilities, like those who have disabilities, or who are elderly, homeless, or have limited English language skills. To learn more about Lone Star Legal Aid, visit our website at www.lonestarlegal.org.
Media contact: Clarissa Ayala, cayala@lonestarlegal.org
