Nationwide Resources
Resources that are available across the country for survivors of homicide.
A searchable database for available supportive services across the United States.
Parents of Murdered Children
Various Chapters across the country
Phone: 888.818.7662
POMC provides the on-going emotional support needed to help parents and other survivors facilitate the reconstruction of a "new life" and to promote a healthy resolution. Not only does POMC help survivors deal with their acute grief but also helps with the criminal justice system.
The Compassionate Friends
Various Chapters across the country
Toll Free: 877.969.0010
When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.
The National Center for Victims of Crime
Phone: 202.467.8700
The National Center for Victims of Crime is a nonprofit organization that advocates for victims' rights, trains professionals who work with victims, and serves as a trusted source of information on victims' issues. After more than 25 years, we remain the most comprehensive national resource committed to advancing victims' rights and helping victims of crime rebuild their lives.
The National Center is, at its core, an advocacy organization committed to -- and working on behalf of -- crime victims and their families. Rather than focus the entire organization's work on one type of crime or victim, the National Center addresses all types of crime.
Resource Center for Victims of Violent Death
Phone: 855.430.2232
Our mission is to bridge the gaps in the availability of information and resources that impede and discourage victims/families trying to deal with the aftermath of violent death, undetermined deaths, & attempted homicides.
National Organization for Victim Assistance
Phone: 800.879.6682
NOVA's mission is the champion dignity and compassion for those harmed by crime and crisis.
The Office for Victims of Crime
A searchable nationwide database for services related to all types of crime.
Resources in the UK
Murdered Abroad
Phone: Helpline: 0845 123 23 84
A support group for families, partners, and friends of the victims of murder and manslaughter abroad.
Resources by State
Arizona
Homicide Survivors, Inc.
Phone: 520.207.5012
Homicide Survivors, Inc. is a nonprofit victim assistance organization dedicated to meeting the crisis and long term needs of families of murder victims. Through support, advocacy and assistance we help survivors cope emotionally, stabilize economically and help survivors seek justice for their loved ones.
California
Citizens Against Homicide
Phone: 415.308.9413 or 209.728.2873
Citizens Against Homicide is a non-profit (501(c)3, public benefits organization serving families and friends of homicide victims. The majority of our Board Members have lost a family member to murder. We are surviving the devastating loss of a loved one and continue to suffer the emotional trauma of coping with the criminal justice system. We have joined together to create a body of support and a voice for families and friends of homicide victims.
District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)
The DC Alliance, Empowering Homicide Survivors,
Inc.
Prayer & Support Helpline : 240-988-3483
DC Alliance, Empowering Homicide Survivors, Inc. provides support to victims, co-victims and survivors of domestic violence for men and women or homicides.
Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
Phone: 202.204.5021
Through the Wendt Center’s Homicide Outreach Project Empowering Survivors (HOPES) Program we provide comfort and support, information and practical assistance to families, individuals, and communities coping with homicide-related deaths. Services are provided by licensed clinicians, program staff, and carefully trained volunteers with expertise in the areas of trauma, grief and loss, and child and family therapy.
Georgia
Georgia Commission on Family Violence
Phone: (404) 657-3412
The Georgia Commission on Family Violence provides support, resources, and referrals to survivors of domestic violence murder-suicide in Georgia. In addition, we provide training, technical assistance, and resources to communities and constituents for the purpose of strategically implementing innovative systematic changes based on the findings and recommendations of the project.
Illinois
Illinois
Email: office@chicagosurvivors.org
Phone: 312-488-9222
Hotline: 877.863.6338
Chicago Survivors provides multi-cultural crime victim services to family members of Chicago homicide victims. Our services are free and open to all families who have lost a loved one to violence. Our Crisis Response and Family Support Services are available in English and Spanish, and we will also provide in-time telephone translation of our services into over 200 languages.
Massachusetts
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
Phone: (617) 825-1917
To serve as a center of healing, teaching, and learning for families and communities impacted by murder, grief, trauma, and loss.
Center for Homicide Bereavement
Phone: 617-591-6123
To serve as a center of healing, teaching, and learning for families and communities impacted by murder, grief, trauma, and loss.
Find resources around the Commonwealth to help you.
Mississippi
Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence
The Homicide Survivors program offers services to families, friends, and other loved ones of homicide victims. Services include grief counseling, court advocacy, and victim compensation application assistance. The Forever Changed Support Group is a caring group of survivors who meet monthly to provide support and caring for each other.
New Jersey
Survivors of Homicide Support and Counseling Services
Camden County New Jersey
Phone: 1.877.922.2377
Survivors of Homicide Support & Counseling Services offers free, safe, supportive, and compassionate programming for children, teens, adults, and families in Camden City and Camden County who are grieving the loss of a loved one by homicide.
New Mexico
Bridges for Victims of Violent Death
Phone: 1.855.430.2232
Our mission is to help the survivors and co-victims of homicide deal with the aftermath of a violent death. We bridge the gaps in the availability of information and resources for victims by providing stepping stones for victims to move from a place of vulnerability to a place of positive resolution.
North Carolina
North Carolina Victim Assistance Network
Through advocacy, training, and technical assistance, North Carolina Victim Assistance Network supports the rights and well-being of surviving loved ones of homicide
victims and others harmed by violent crime in North Carolina.
Tennessee
When struggling with grief, you may feel as though no one around you understands what you’re going through. Many people who have lost loved ones to homicide find it helpful to meet with a group who understands and shares their experience.
These groups, led by trained counselors, can help provide connectivity, understanding, a place to vent, a place to address anger and a place to give you the tools you need to create a “new normal” in your life.
Utah
Utah Homicide
Survivors
Utah Homicide Survivors is a non-profit organization that will help and guide families of homicide victims through probate to legally obtain the assets that are rightfully yours and provide
holistic legal representation following the death of a loved one.
We also file legal notices and lawsuits to disqualify the killer as an heir. Our mission is to prevent all killers from financially profiting from causing death, and instead fight to have the assets go to the rightful & appropriate family members of the victim.
Virginia
Virginia Victim Assistance Network
Phone: 804-331-4057,
ext. 103
Homicide Survivor Support Groups bring friends and family of homicide victims together in regional support groups to provide healing and resources. The Network coordinates these services, including hiring trained mental health facilitators to lead each group.
Washington
Victim Support Services
Phone: 1.888.288.9221
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