| Below is the link to the application
for California's Victim Compensation Program. The Victim
Compensation Program can help pay for expenses that
result from a crime.
» www.vcgcb.ca.gov/VCApp.htm
Government
Resources
Contact information for local government
programs created to assist victim's families after the
homicide of a loved one.
Alameda County Victim
Services
Telephone: (510) 272-6180
Website: www.acgov.org
Alpine County District Attorney
Telephone: (530) 694-2971
Website: www.alpinecountyca.gov
Email address: swark@alpinecountyca.com
Amador County District Attorney
Telephone: (209) 223-6474
Website: www.co.amador.ca.us
Email address: hward@co.amador.ca.us
Butte County Victims Assistance
Telephone: (530) 538-7340
Email address: victimassistance@buttecounty.net
Website: www.buttecounty.net
Calaveras County District Attorney
Telephone: (209) 754-6565
Email address: belben@co.calaveras.ca.us
Website: www.co.calaveras.ca.us
Colusa County Victim
Witness Services
Telephone: (530) 458-0449
Email address: victimwitness@colusanet.com
Website: www.colusada.net
Contra Costa County Victim
Witness Assistance
Telephone: (925) 646-2474 or (510) 374-3272
Email address: edowell@contracostada.org
Website: www.co.contra-costa.ca.us
Del Norte County Victim Witness
Telephone: (707) 464-7273
Email address: victimwitness@dnco.org
Website: www.dnco.org
El Dorado County Victim/Witness
Assistance Program
Telephone: (530) 621-6414
E-mail address: smeyer@co.el-dorado.ca.us
Website: www.co.el-dorado.ca.us
Fresno County Victim
Witness Assistance
Telephone: (559) 488-3425
Website address: www.fresnosuperiorcourt.org
Glenn County Victim
Services
Telephone: (530) 934-6510
Website Address: no website
Humboldt County District Attorney—Victim/Witness
Division
Telephone: (707) 445-7417
Website address: http://co.humboldt.ca.us
Inyo County District Attorney—Victim
Witness Division
Telephone:
Victim’s Services in Independence (760) 878-0282
Victim’s Services in Bishop (760) 873-6669
Email address: inyowv@qnet.com
Kings County Victim-Witness
Telephone: (559) 582-3211 x 2640
Lake County Victim-Witness
Assistance
Telephone: (707) 262-4282
Lassen County Victim-Witness Assistance
Telephone: (530) 251-8281
Website address: www.co.lassen.ca.us
Madera County Community
Action Partnership
Telephone:
Victim’s Services in Madera: (559) 661-1000
Victim’s Services in Eastern Madera: (559) 658-8588
Crisis Line: 1-800-355-8989
Website address: www.maderacap.org
Marin County Victim-Witness Program
Telephone: (415) 499-6450
Website: www.co.marin.ca.us
Mariposa County Victim/
Witness Assistance
Telephone: (209) 742-7441
Email address: vicwit@sierratel.com
Mendocino County Victim/Witness
Telephone: (707) 463-4218
Email address: VictimWitness@co.mendocino.ca.us
Merced County Victim
Services
Telephone: (209) 385-7385
Website: www.co.merced.ca.us
Modoc County Victim
Services
Telephone: (530) 233-3311
Email address: luvina_albright@modoccounty.us
Monterey County Victim
Witness Program
Telephone: (831) 755-5326
Website address: www.co.monterey.ca.us
Mono County District Attorney
Telephone: (760) 924-1710
Email address: tdonnelley@mono.ca.gov
Napa County Victim
Witness Program
Telephone: (707) 252-6222
Website address: www.volunteernapa.org
Email address: gokelley@volunteernapa.org
Nevada County Probation
Telephone: (530) 265-1246 ext 1
Website address: http://new.mynevadacounty.com
Placer County Victim-Witness Services
Telephone: (530) 889-7021*
Website address: www.placer.ca.gov
* this number will be changing in October 2007
Plumas County Victim-Witness Program
Telephone: (530) 283-6285
Email address: plumasvw@psln.com
Sacramento County Victim-Witness
Telephone: (916) 874-5701
Website address: www.da.saccounty.net
San Benito County Victim
Witness Center
Phone: (831) 634-1397
Website address: vwac.hollisteronline.com
Email address: kfancher@vw.co.san-benito.ca.us
San Francisco County Victim
Services
Telephone: (415) 553-9044
Website: www.sfgov.org
San Joaquin Victim-Witness Assistance Program
Telephone: (209) 468-2500
Website address: www.co.san-joaquin.ca.us
San Mateo Victim-Witness
Assistance Center
Telephone: (650) 599-7479
Website address: www.co.sanmateo.ca.us
Santa Clara County Victim-Witness
Assistance Center
Telephone: (408) 295-2656
Email: vwac@victim.org
Website
address: www.victim.org
Santa Cruz County Victim
Witness Services
Telephone: (831) 454-2010
Email: dao@co.santa-cruz.ca.us
Website address: http://sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us
Shasta County Victim
Witness Program
Telephone: (530) 225-5220
Website address: http://da.co.shasta.ca.us
Sierra County Victim
Assistance
Telephone: (530) 993-4617
Email address: sierravw@psln.com
Siskiyou County Victim
Witness Program
Telephone:
Local (530) 842-8229
Toll-free (800) 854-2000, ext 8229
Email address: da@co.siskiyou.ca.us
Website address: www.co.siskiyou.ca.us
Solano County District Attorney's Victim-Witness
Assistance
Telephone: (707) 784-6844 or (707) 553-5400
Website address: www.solanocounty.com
Sonoma County Victim Assistance
Center
Telephone: (707) 565-8250
Website address: www.sonoma-county.org
Stanislaus County Victim
Services
Telephone: (209) 525-5541
Website address: www.stanislaus-da.org
Sutter County Victim
Services
Telephone: (530) 822-7345
Tehama County Victim
Services
Telephone: (530) 527-4296
Trinity County Victim
Witness Services
Telephone: (530) 623-8316
Tulare County
Victim Witness Assistance Bureau
Telephone:
Visalia (559) 733-6754
Porterville (559) 782-4835
Website address: www.da-tulareco.org
Tuolumne County District Attorney
Telephone: (209) 588-5440
Yolo County Victim
Witness Assistance
Telephone Number: (530) 666-8187
Website address: www.yoloda.org
Yuba County Probation
Telephone Number: (530) 741-6275
Website address: www.co.yuba.ca.us
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Organizations for Families
of Homicide Victims
Links
to non-governmental organizations that provide
support for homicide victim's families.
24/7 Gospel
After Lorrain Taylor lost her twin sons in an Oakland
homicide she set up 24/7 Gospel. The organization assists
victims and survivors of gun violence with food, referrals
for housing, employment, education, music and related
services.
» www.lorraintaylor.org
Attitudinal Healing Connect
AHC works to eliminate violence by supporting creative
and educational programs that transform the spirit
and build peaceful and loving communities for all
of humanity.
» www.ahc-oakland.org
Crisis Support Services of Alameda County
The service offers free support to people of all ages
and backgrounds during times of stress and grief.
They work to prevent suicide and offer support during
times of hopelessness.
» crisissupport.org
Face to Face Counseling Program
Provides grief and counseling programs
Main phone: 800.260.0094
24-hour Crisis Line: 800.309.2131
Healthy Communities
Healthy Communities’ mission is to decrease violence
and health disparities in primarily the African American
community, but also in other ethnic communities as
well. The idea being that healthy people make healthy
families, and healthy families make healthy communities.
Healthy Communities has chapters in Oakland, Berkeley,
Richmond, Vallejo, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco.
» www.healthycommunities.us
Journey of Hope… From Violence to Healing
An Organization led by murder victim family members
that conducts public education speaking tours and addresses
alternatives to the death penalty.
» www.journeyofhope.org
Khadafy Foundation for Nonviolence
The foundation provides support services for victims
of violence.
» www.khadafyfoundation.org
Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights
(MVFHR)
Founded in 1976, MVFR is a national organization of
family members who have lost a loved one to execution
or murder and who oppose the death penalty.
» www.mvfhr.org
Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation
(MVFR)
MVFR is a victim-founded, victim-led organization that
represents murder victims' families who oppose the
death penalty.
» www.mvfr.org
Alameda County Chapter
of Family and Friends of Murder Victims
A Bay Area support group for victims of violence that
provides activities designed to heal emotional wounds
and help victims make it through holidays and the anniversary
of a loved one’s death.
Contacts: JoAnn Benford, 510.895.9440; Helene Davis
510.452.2553
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty—California
Chapter
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty is a nonpartisan,
nonprofit, interfaith organization whose mission is
to educate and mobilize faith communities to act to
abolish the death penalty in the United States.
» www.californiapeopleoffaith.org
Save the Children
A non-government organization creating lasting change
for children in need in the United States and around
the world. Save the Children works with families
to define and solve the problems their children and
communities face by utilizing a broard array of strategies
to ensure self-sufficiency.
» www.savethechildren.org
Links to individual foundations, and personal stories
commemorating lost family members; these websites were
created by the victim's families who are opposed to
the
death penalty.
Azim Khamisa’s Website
Azim Khamisa’s has spread the message of non-violence
and voiced his opposition to the death penalty since
losing his son in 1995. This site inventories Azim
Khamisa’s workshops, speaking engagements, media
appearances and book.
» www.azimkhamisa.com
Constant and Never Ending Improvement (CANEI)
A program set up by Azim Khamisa. CANEI seeks to help
adolescents who have a history of aggressive or violent
behavior restore confidence and control in their
lives.
» www.canei.org
The Catherine Blount Foundation
A foundation set up by a CCV member, Aba Gayle, in
order to honor their loved one, Catherine Blount,
after her untimely death. The foundation’s
mission is to facilitate forgiveness and peace.
» www.catherineblountfdn.org
Tariq Khamisa Foundation (TKF)
TKF to “stop kids from killing kids.” TKF
provides a powerful and proven school-based violence
prevention education program for students in the 4th
- 8th grades to inspire and empower them to say "no" to
gangs, guns and violence.
» www.tkf.org
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