Contact Information
| Phone: | (402) 641-2455 [24 hour message phone] |
| Fax: | (402) 643-4614 |
| Office: | Seward Victim Assistance |
| 529 Seward Street; Suite 105 | |
| Seward, NE 68434 |
Message
The Seward Victim Assistance Program is committed to providing free services to survivors of crimes, including information, opportunities, referral, advocacy and support, especially in the criminal justice system processes.
On behalf of victims, we act as liaisons between victims and a variety of justice system departments. We aspire to empower and assist survivors of crime in their recovery.
What is Victimization?
Victimization is the event or incident leading to a victim state. Victimizing events tend to be of high intensity and short duration (e.g. robbery, assault, serious accident, sudden death). Essentially, there are three stages of victimization:
- Impact-Initial Reaction
- All Signs and symptoms of stress to traumatic events
- Emotional shock, numbness, helplessness, vulnerability - Recoil
- Cognitive attempts to deal with the event
- Denial - trying to go on as though nothing has happened
- Blaming others
- Self blame, "I must have deserve this"
- Obsessive - repeated return to the event and its ramifications
- Compensatory fantasies and planning - phobic reactions - Reorganization
- Return to a state of equilibrium
- Victim calls upon supports
- Focus on life-enhancing rather than simply existing
- Obsessive fears and reactions are modulated
- Victim is better able to copy with occasional flashbacks
- Victim moves toward making life better rather than simply
* Total registration includes having the completed paperwork to the Traffic Diversion Program within the ten (10) working days.
Three Steps To Qualify
- Register with one of the following programs
:
Traffic Safety Plus by phone (402) 466-0033 or online at www.trafficsafetyplus.org
Stop Program by phone (402) 483-2511 or online at at www.nesafetycouncil.org; or
Ticket-B-Gone, sponsored by Southeast Community College. You can register by phone (402) 437-2710 or e-mail Rhonda Taft