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ARIZONA
HOMICIDE SURVIVORS, INC.
What You
Can Do
We all see reports of crimes
every day in the newspaper and on TV, and our hearts go out to the victims.
Here are some things that you can do to help crime victims:
Helpful Things To Do
- Stay in frequent touch
- Be
patient-repeat information
- Provide reminders
- Accept changes
- Be completely honest
- Allow survivor to make
own choices
- Listen-listen-listen
- Be non-judgmental
- Ask about the victim,
use the victim's name
- Allow survivor to talk
about the impact of the trauma
- Allow the expression
of anger-rage-frustration
- Encourage expression
of sadness: tears are healing
- Offer assistance; practical,
emotional or financia
- Give special attention
to surviving children
- Offer "after-support"
, after the funeral, after the arrest, after the trial, after the
first year.....
"There is no better
exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone
up".
~Bernard Meltzer~
Contact us at:
Homicide Survivors, Inc.
32 N. Stone, 11th Floor
Tucson, AZ 85701
Phone (520) 740-5729
Fax: (520)
740-5642
Help Line: (520) 881-1794
E-mail: survivor@pcao.co.pima.az.us
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