(725 ILCS 240/8) (from Ch. 70, par. 508)

Sec. 8. Centers - Services provided.

(a) Each center shall provide one or more of the following services:

(1) Coordinate volunteers to work with criminal justice agencies to provide direct victim services or to establish community support;

(2) Provide assistance to victims of violent crime and their families in obtaining assistance through other official or community resources;

(3) Provide elderly victims of crime with services appropriate to their special needs;

(4) Provide transportation and/or household assistance to those victims participating in the criminal justice process;

(5) Provide victims of domestic and sexual violence and sexual harassment with services appropriate to their special needs;

(6) Provide courthouse reception and guidance, including explanation of unfamiliar procedures and bilingual information;

(7) Provide in-person or telephone hot-line assistance to victims;

(8) Provide special counseling facilities and rehabilitation services to victims;

(9) Provide other services as the Commission shall deem appropriate to further the purposes of this Act;

(10) Provide public education on crime and crime victims;

(11) Provide training and sensitization for persons who work with victims of crime;

(12) Provide special counseling facilities and rehabilitation services for child victims of sex offenses;

(13) When applicable, centers shall enter into written networking agreements to provide for the special needs of child victims of violent crimes;

(14) Provide assistance in exercising rights provided in the Roadside Memorial Act for the families of victims of fatal injury crashes on roadways.

(b) Such centers may provide one or more of the services enumerated in subparagraph (a) of this section for witnesses of crime.

(Source: P.A. 97-108, eff. 7-14-11.)