Dear Friends and Colleagues:

This week is National Crime Victims' Rights Week.  The Iowa DOC's Victim Advisory Council and the Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance invite you to visit the DOC website each day this week.  We will be bringing you messages from state leaders, victims/survivors and from victim service providers across the state.  Visit: https://doc.iowa.gov/ and click on the Crime Victim Rights Week 2020 link under the Victim Services tab.   Please take a few minutes to view this year's award recipients from the US Attorneys' Offices for the Northern and Southern Districts.  If you know them, send them a message of congratulations.   Be sure to check each day for our posting of those Iowans whose lives were lost this year due to violent crime.  We will be asking for a moment of silence to recognize them and their loved ones.   Remember, in the midst of our work during this pandemic, we can be inspired by the resiliency of the human spirit!  

Mary Roche on behalf of the Crime Victim Rights Week Planning Committee

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2020 Upcoming Board Meeting Dates

IOVA holds bi-monthly, brown-bag lunch meetings from noon until 2:00 p.m. at the Department of Corrections, 510 E. 12th St. If you cannot attend in person you may teleconference. Submit a contact to obtain the conference number and code as it may change.  Meetings are open to everyone. Please come and get involved!

Meeting Dates for 2020:​​
        January 3
        March 6
        May 1
        July 10
        September 11
        November 6