TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTERS - Addressing the Needs of Underserved Crime Survivors

With additional support, the TRC model would be able to serve an even larger number of crime survivors across the state, thereby increasing the number of clients served from the thousands to the hundreds of thousands each year. [...] As TRCs have grown to other states, and the cost-effectiveness of the model has been established, lawmakers have recognized the need to fund the work at a level that supports the model to succeed, and some states have allocated a minimum of $1 million for each new TRC. [...] The most recent data show that, in 2018, 3.3 million people were victims of violent crime, and there were 6 million violent crimes recorded.1 As many as one in four people have been a victim of crime in the past 10 years, and roughly half of those have been the victim of a violent crime.2 The data show that victims of violent crime are four times as likely to be repeat crime victims of four or mor. [...] As much as 10 to 20 percent of mental health care expenditures in the United States may be attributable to crime, primarily for victims treated as a result of their victimization.7 4 // TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTERS: ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF UNDERSERVED CRIME SURVIVORS IN Despite the huge costs to the individual and the community when trauma caused by violent crime goes unaddressed, most crime survivors. [...] With additional support, the TRC model would be able to serve an even larger number of crime survivors across the state, growing the number of clients served from the thousands to the hundreds of thousands each year.