The goal of the CCVS grant program is to provide culturally responsive, gender responsive and trauma informed services to historically underserved victims, namely people of color, men and young adults and to reduce the risk of repeat victimization. A Community Partner may not decline to serve a victim based upon whether the victim reported the crime to law enforcement or cooperated with any prosecution, the length of time that the has elapsed since the victimization, or the location of the victimization.

A victim is defined in §24.4.1-302(5) CRS as “any natural person against whom any crime has been perpetrated or attempted, unless the person accountable for the crime or a crime arising from the same conduct or plan as crime is defined under the laws of this state of the United States, or, if such person is deceased or incapacitated, the person‘s spouse, parent, legal guardian, child sibling, grandparent, grandchild, significant other, or other lawful representative” and a victim’s immediate family member is defined in §24.1.1-302(6) as “spouse, any child by birth or adoption, any stepchild, the parent, the step-parent, a sibling, a legal guardian, significant other, or a lawful representative of the victim.

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