VICTIM SERVICES
Website : www.gnb.ca/0276/victimservices/index-e.asp

The Department of Public Safety Victim Services program provides the following services, free of charge, to eligible victims in a criminal case:

• Assist victims with Court Preparation Program
• Information on how to prepare a victim impact statement
• Compensation for victims of crime
• Trauma counselling for victims
• Short-term counselling for victims
• Services for children, youth and their families
• Victim notification of release of provincially incarcerated offenders
• Victim Notification of Review Board Hearing and Outcomes for accused found not criminally responsible due to reason of mental disorder

Staff is available to conduct workshops/presentations. The following is a list of offices located throughout the province :

Services available in both English and French.

VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES N.B. INC. (VON)
Provincial Office :
Susan Strelioff, VP-VON Eastern Region
7001 Mumford Road, Suite 300, Tower 1
Halifax, N.S. B3L 4N9
Telephone : (866) 508-0563 3 1 ext. 2340
Fax : (902) 864-2429
E-mail : susan.strelioff@von.ca
Website : www.von.ca

VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) provides comprehensive health care services, including an extensive immunization program.  All VON sites provide foot-care services in a clinic setting or in the home. The Fredericton and Oromocto sites each operate an Adult Day Program which aims to maintain and improve the client’s ability to live independently in his/her own home. VON Saint John provides a Home Support Program - support at home for people that find certain activities of daily living a challenge.  

There are 10 branches across the province :

VOICEPRINT
Robb Hartlen
124 John Street
Fredericton, N.B. E3B 4A7
Telephone : (506) 455-6860
Fax : (506) 455-6327
E-mail : robb.hartlen@accessiblemedia.com
Website : www.voiceprintcanada.com

VoicePrint is a non-profit, volunteer-driven reading service for the members of our community who cannot access printed material due to, for example, blindness, vision restriction, physical or learning disability, low literacy skills or just getting older.They are the primary service of Accessible Media Inc. Their mandate is to break the barriers to accessing printed information.

They can be found on: Satellite - Shaw Direct – ch. 825, Bell TV – ch. 49 and 967, Look TV ch. 400, Digital Cable - Rogers ch. 190, EastLink Digital ch. 394, Cogeco ch. 596, Aliant ch. 998, online - www.voiceprintcanada.com and Basic Cable - on the secondary audio program (S.A.P.) of CBC Newsworld.

The Atlantic office produces the Headline and National News, the Atlantic Regional Report, Atlantic Afternoon, Atlantic Life, Atlantic Sports, PEI Report, Atlantic Arts and Entertainment and New Brunswick Today as well as the reading of local Supermarket ads and Maritime obituaries.  The service is based on material clipped from the daily newspapers and read by their volunteers

They are also operating what is called a “Local Broadcast Centre”, LBC. It’s a web-based service at www.voiceprintcanada.com. Services available in English.

Volunteer centres across the province recruit and refer volunteers to non-profit organizations in their community that request the assistance of volunteers. The assistance provided is available to persons with disabilities.

There are volunteer centres in the following regions :