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2025 Victim Services
Mission Statement Mission Statement: Provide services to those affected by homicide, family violence and to children affected by violence.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Through Death Penalty Abolition Funds, serve the trauma and advocacy needs of loved ones of homicide victims (homicide survivors) and train law enforcement on maximizing officer and community safety and well-being.
    1. Through Family Violence Coordinating Councils, support judicial circuits in their work to improve the local justice system’s institutional, professional and community response to family violence.
      1. Through Safe from the Start, provide services to identify, assess, and serve children who have been exposed to and traumatized by violence.
        Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, Criminal Justice Information Projects Fund, Death Penalty Abolition Fund Statutory Authority 20 ILCS 3930/7
        Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
        Input Indicators
        Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 37,525.0 $ 9,433.4 $ 0.0 $ 19,585.4 $ 32,996.6
        Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 37,525.0 $ 9,433.4 $ 0.0 $ 19,585.4 $ 32,996.6
        Average monthly full-time equivalents 7.0 7.0 0.0 7.0 7.0
        Output Indicators
        Family Violence Coordinating Councils - Number of criminal justice practitioners trained on family violence prevention (a) 8,000 8,092 6,000 6,140 4,974
        Safe from the Start (SFS) - Number of new clients (children and adults) served (b) 600.0 582.0 800.0 924.0 347.0
        Death Penalty Abolition - Number of homicide families served (c) 0.0 756.0 1,159 1,159 685.0
        Outcome Indicators
        Average percent increase in childhood functioning score for children with direct service (d) 5.00% 4.10% 7.00% 7.20% 6.80%
        Footnotes
        There was a large training event in quarter 3. Fiscal year 2025 had a decrease in funding. This program ended in quarter 3. Fewer clients completed assessments between Time 1 and 2 due to client declination and DCFS allowability.

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