State Victim Assistance Academy for North Dakota  (SVAAND)

The State Victim Assistance Academy for North Dakota (SVAAND) will develop and offer an intensive week long training focused on victim services, victims' rights, and a number of other victim-centered topics for professionals from around the state to attend.

The State of North Dakota can look to expand and enhance the level of professionalism within the victim services field and provide opportunities for sharing and networking between people from all victims and social service agencies within its own borders.

The SVAAND will fulfill the need of a centralized training center for professionals in the field of victim services and will address the obstacles facing professionals pertaining to training.  As modeled from other state victim academies, the SVAAND will be in partnership with MSU as the central training location for North Dakota.

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