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2002 NOVA Newsl. 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/novan2002 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 19. Numbers 10-2 lof 12 Issue),. 2100 After Responding to the September 11h Attacks We'reBak Special Trple Issue In catc ingupwithourreders, thelNewsletter ofers news onnmany fronts: * Celebrating fountry- lictimsand-dimcated United The NOVA Confkrence .... 2 *Blourd Nominations, 3 * A-ward1ominations .... 4 * DonateloNOVA'sluction.. * Responding to the September 11 .ttack 6 * lictimandCriminalJustice: Exploring lh Dicoun. aPaperby Rupert Ross..vi.I. 9 The Revised ictim Riihts I ; ThePresiden'sSpeech .. 16 OVC DirectorJohn Gillis AddressesNOVA1orum .... 17 Witnesinganivecton- N10 Mor Altoda .I.. . 18-49 Lh ikallions of people around the world, NOVA staff menmbers spent ~esdayL, September 11,20011 trans- fixe bythe telex sed images ot anairplane crash scene iunoerset,1 Pensaia hby pitues of the blurngn blasted side of the Pentagonin Arlington Viniand~luh be hormifi sights of mairrf turned isies samngmintothe twin tomirs ofthe Word Trade C enter (WT1CJ in New York City, settinC ires that woldb all too soon brine both buildings implonding to the ground. F or a number of NOVA1 trained (Criis 1Respons am an(CRT miberh, ffi'its to aboib the das eveums were cut short, irst the apital Areatrisis Response leamn was dispatched to Arlngton Hospital to begin workwith thelfamie sof the casual- ties oft he Penutan attac The same day. a large number of NOVA'\ Pcnnsyliania Ckl1' aliliate, thelKeystone Crisi Iutei en- tion '1am, weeentto Somrsett Cutiy to begin work with the first respondlers, wih other diaster teams, and as the day s wore oan with the relatives of the vitilms of the crash Wihin11days, a teamdrove upunthl t New Jese Irohni Floida there be no airlne servie - to woik wit New b isev1 officials planning the state's response to the thousands of New\ Jerey iesidents w hoi wer icimuted by the amtc ks on the WT' 1As4the1 days passed, teams of criuss responders werec arriing to help at \New Jerse Is Faly Asistne C enter. while othe were staffng a donated headquar tes in \lanhattan, As soon0 as the airline isted ser- x ice, NOA \Executive Dirctor Marlene Yoaung fle to New York to join iii the planning and mnanagemnot eflorts pon hrturan to \NOVA\ We st C oast otfie, ~h bea moiing /Ite.aso trained crisis repoes t flo Ne Yomk 'n 't or ta the donated office space in Manhattainor at the Family Assistance Center established at New Jersey's Liberty State Park, just across New York Harbor from downtown Manhat- tant H W a alt wave o kas ere rs cruted and dispatched to those sies, over weeks and then months, ending only with the trnsfmatmion of the are arund the H [(C froms a receiy to a construction sitet Some ol this history i cotntaned in an aticle beginning on Pe S and mnet is aalable n NOVA\ 1WHeb sitt e ww try- nova oig) The article makes refeence to \NOV\'s iLssons from the Aftermath conleenc, attended by some 300 of the lolunterrsis responderswho served in this effort That conferene is leading to- the prodction of written and ideontaped materis, whichwilloouise vailabe toour members, his Newsleter report- on other uma- or eents in tIe life of the victims' moviement the introducetioti of a revsed, Presientmally-endoi ed pioposal to putvitimnrightsin the US. Constittion, and the confi mation of a new IDiretor ol the Ofie for VictisoflCrime. It contains a thoughtful and proocatie paper re- thinking the justice system by a pronent C anadian prosecutor. But weespecially wantto bring to the attention ofNO1 .Amembers fourneation iterns for their immediate consideration: *attendance at ur upcomiing annual conference at the ()pryland hotel; * nonuatmons to the NOVA Board: * notninatlionsiforNOVA \ awards. and * do.n aions to our annual auction Thes are found on pages 2-5 act on thoe first,1 then readtllie rest ofthe| Nes lette a your lire!la Ad we' Itsee inuinNahille * *

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