VSP Services
The Victim Services Program (VSP) is a direct service program available to all people regardless of gender or sexual identity. The VSP provides free services and support to victims and survivors of intimate partner domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, dating violence, and child sexual abuse.
VSP ServicesUnderstand Your Rights
Crime victims, as defined by law, have rights provided to them under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. Learn what your rights are, including the right to be reasonably protected from your abuser.
Understand Your RightsHelplines & Shelters
Access national hotlines, Michigan Tribal shelters, and other domestic violence and sexual assault shelters in our nine-county service area.
Hotlines & Shelters“American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) women experience higher rates of violence than other women.”
“AI/AN women experience violence more commonly by non-Native perpetrators.”
“AI/AN victims of violence are less likely to receive needed services.”
“More than 4 in 5 AI/AN women (84.3 percent) have experienced violence in their lifetime.”
“More than half of AI/AN women (56.1 percent) have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime.”
“More than half of AI/AN women (55.5 percent) have experienced physical violence by intimate partners in their lifetime.”
“Almost half of AI/AN women (48.8 percent) have been stalked in their lifetime.”
“AI/AN women are 1.7 times more likely than White women to have
experienced violence in the past year.”
Reference:
National Congress of American Indians, Policy Research Center, February, 2018.
