Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Claire N. Kaplan" <>]

> Below is an announcement about the National Advocate Credentialing
> Program
> (NACP).  Please distribute to subgrantees and other victim advocates in
> your
> state.  They should especially note the opportunity to be grandfathered.
>
> Steve Derene
>
> ==============
> I'm very pleased to announce that the National Advocate Credentialing
> Program (NACP) grandparenting program is now in place and ready to
> accept
> applications from advocates with 5+ years of experience in the field and
> 10+
> years of experience in the field with no testing requirement.  The
> grandparenting portion of the program will be offered from July 2003
> until
> October 31, 2005.  The credentialing portion of the program for
> advocates
> with less experience than 5 years in the field will be in place by
> October
> 1, 2003.
>
> Interested advocates may visit NOVA's website at www.try-nova.org and
> click
> on "National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP).  If you downloaded
> or
> filled out a form prior to today's date (July 8, 2003), it was an
> incorrect
> form, so please use only the form that is available as of today's date.
> The
> program narrative, application, Professional Code of Ethics for Victim
> Assistance Providers and other relevant forms may all be downloaded from
> the
> site and may be submitted in hardcopy format by mail or online (with
> accompanying forms completed, signed and mailed in to the address
> indicated.)
>
> Please join NACP as professional credentialing at a national level for
> the
> field of advocacy and assistance to crime victims begins.
>
> Jeannette Adkins, President, Board of Directors
> National Organization for Victim Assistance
> NACP Secretariat

Claire N. Kaplan
Coordinator, UVA Sexual Assault Education Office
Doctoral Candidate, Curry School of Education
UVA Women's Center  *  P.O. Box 800588 *  Charlottesville VA  *  22908-0588
434-982-2774 (V/TTY)    434-982-2901 (Fax)

http://sexualassault.virginia.edu