The Victims Advocate Unit is responsible for providing crisis response to victims and their families. Victim Advocates are professionally trained, skilled, and compassionate listeners who respond to crime scenes, crisis, and non-crisis situations, or other locations to bring emotional support, comfort, and information to victims and/or their families. Victim Advocates inform victims of their rights and are a resource to assist victims with the criminal justice process and provide referrals to information regarding crisis intervention services, bereavement counseling, community-based victim services programs, and crime victim compensation funds. The Victim Advocate Unit also conducts outreach to ensure informative and wellness events take place to educate the public and provide support and referrals of available resources.