Announcing the 2026 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Dates
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) will be commemorated April 19–25, 2026.
Communicating Victim Rights
Now Online: 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide
This guide is now available to help you raise awareness in your community about victims’ rights and services during NCVRW (April 6–12, 2025) and throughout the year.
2025 NCVRW Sample Proclamation
Inspire your community and raise awareness of victims’ rights, services, and resources by using the 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week sample proclamation.
Now Available: 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Artwork
Use these materials to raise awareness about victims’ rights, services, and resources.
Now Available: 2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Color Palette and Theme Posters
Use these materials to raise awareness about victims’ rights, services, and resources.
2025 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide
Discover tools and sample materials to help you raise awareness about crime victims' rights and services.
2009 NCVRW Theme Video - 25 Years of Rebuilding Lives: Celebrating the Victims of Crime Act
April 2009
This video serves as a tribute to crime victims and the advocates and public servants who work with them, and discusses the advances made in crime victims' rights and services since the passage of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984.
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2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Video 2
April 2024
This 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) theme video is a call-to-action for us all to create safe environments for crime victims to share what happened to them. By doing so, we’re able to offer support, options for life-saving services, and, most importantly, hope.
Use this video during your 2024 NCVRW events or share it throughout the year on your website and social media channels, or at public awareness, education, and training events to advance victims’ rights and services.
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2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Video 1
April 2024
This 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) theme video is a call-to-action for us all to create safe environments for crime victims to share what happened to them. By doing so, we’re able to offer support, options for life-saving services, and, most importantly, hope.
Use this video during your 2024 NCVRW events or share it throughout the year on your website and social media channels, or at public awareness, education, and training events to advance victims’ rights and services.
See the YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy
Now Online: 2024 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Artwork
Use the 2024 NCVRW artwork to help communities raise awareness about victims’ rights and services.
Remarks by OVC Director Kristina Rose During the 2023 NCVRW Candlelight Vigil
Read OVC Director Kristina Rose’s remarks from the 2023 National Crime Victims' Rights Week Candlelight Vigil.
NCVRW Message From OVC Director Kristina Rose
Director Rose calls upon communities to amplify the voices of survivors and commit to creating an environment where survivors have the confidence that they will be heard, believed, and supported.
Blog Highlights Victims’ Rights Clinics During NCVRW 2023
Read a blog post about OVC-funded victims’ rights enforcement efforts by the National Crime Victim Law Institute
It’s National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW)!
Join communities across the Nation in raising awareness for victims’ rights and services.
2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Video: Engage Survivors
April 2023
This 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week theme video explores what it means to engage crime survivors to ensure they have a voice everywhere decisions are made that could impact them.
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2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Video: Effect Change
April 2023
This 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week theme video demonstrates how elevating and engaging survivors to lift their voices to inform policy and practice can effect change.
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2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Video: Elevate Survivor Voices
April 2023
This 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week theme video underscores the importance of lifting the voices of survivors to ensure they are heard and seen.
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2023 National Crime Victims' Rights Week Theme Video Clip
April 2023
The 2023 National Crime Victims' Rights Week Theme Video Clip calls upon communities to amplify the voices of survivors and create environments where survivors have the confidence that they will be heard, believed, and supported.
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Watch and Share the 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Videos
This year's videos underscore the importance of amplifying the voices of survivors and creating environments where survivors have the confidence that they will be heard, believed, and supported.
2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Resource Guide
Access the 2023 NCVRW Resource Guide for information on how to raise awareness about victims’ rights, protections, and services.
Now Online: 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Artwork
Download and use the theme colors; theme poster; and web, social, and other artwork in your campaigns to amplify survivors’ voices and raise awareness about victims’ rights and services.
Download the 2023 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme Poster and Color Palette
Use the 2023 NCVRW theme poster and color palette to help your organization raise awareness about victims’ rights and services.