We are a grassroots effort to improve the status of Victims' Rights in the state of Arkansas. Arkansas remains one of around 15 states without a state constitutional amendment for Victims' Rights. www.laurascard.ar.gov for a link to Arkansas Victims' Rights statutory laws from Act 1262 of 1997. #victimsrights
We provide free trainings regarding victims' rights, trauma, suicide prevention, neurobiology of trauma, adverse childhood experiences, domestic violence, and child abuse. Many of the founders and advocates of Victims' Rights Arkansas are lived peer survivors who have experienced the journey through the court system.
The following are some highlights of our decade plus work with the survivors/victims, policy makers, law enforcement, victim service provider agencies, community partners and the entire state of Arkansas! #weremember
Victims' Rights Arkansas founder Laura Abbott awarded the DOJ OVC 2019 Volunteer for Victims. Thank you to Team Arkansas!
Victims' Rights Arkansas held the first Arkansas Victims' Rights Rally in the state.
Enforceable Victims' Rights Legislative Effort
Where it all started
Representative Douglas
Groundbreaking moment for victim advocates and survivors to speak on behalf of an enforceable victims' rights state constitutional amendment to the Arkansas General Assembly.
We dedicate this page to former Office of Victims of Crime Director John W. Gillis and his family for their decades of service in working toward a National Constitutional Amendment for Victims' Rights.
