Women's Resource Center recruits for Victim Advocacy Corps
January 19, 2024 - UNM News
UNM students have the chance to play a pivotal role in the Albuquerque community through service to victims of crime.
UNM partnered with the National Organization for Victim Advocacy (NOVA) to launch a new Victim Advocacy Corps (VAC) in Spring 2023, and now that first-of-its-kind corps is recruiting.
Applications for the VAC are open through UNM’s Women’s Resource Center (WRC), with plans to begin the nine-month opportunity in Summer 2024.
“We're so excited and proud that UNM is helping to pilot this partnership with NOVA. So many students on our campus have already witnessed and survived so much violence in their lives: shootings, gender-based and sexual violence, racialized harm, just to name a few,” WRC Director Aine McCarthy said.
The VAC Student Fellows will not only be placed within a local victim service agency, but will be paid for their time at a rate of $18 per hour. McCarthy says it’s quite similar to Americorps, only dedicated to supporting survivors.
