Trauma Victim Support Advocates

What the org has to say: “Our hospital’s Trauma Victim Support Advocates are here to assist crime victims in meeting their physical, emotional, and personal needs both during and after their care at Temple Health. These advocates perform a variety of functions, including: offering comfort to patients in the trauma bay, updating families about their loved ones’ conditions, providing grief support to families of homicide victims, linking survivors to crime victim services, and offering emotional support to patients after they’ve been discharged from the hospital, to name a few.”

What we found: TVSA’s advocates find their clients within Temple Hospital, where they help crime victims access grief support, victims services, and emotional support after discharge.