Sunday, November 18 , 1990 - North Shore News - 13

Volunteers needed to aid
local victims of crime

THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP detachment is looking
for volunteers to help victims of crime.

The detachment'’s Victim
Assistance Program (VAP) was
established in 1984 to provide a
follow-up support service to crime
victims.

Teams of community volunteers
contact victims to offer assistance
and tend an empathic ear to con-
cerns. At a more basic level, a call
from a VAP volunteer fets a vie-
tim know that someone cares and
that the individual’s case is being
addressed.

According to VAP coordinator
Linda Walsoff, the program is
seeking ‘‘matute’’ North Shore
residents to volunteer for the pro-

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

gram. Working with a core group
of 20 volunteers, Walsoff would
like to see another 10 signed up.

Said Walsoff, ‘"It’s an outreach
program. The volunteers do not
do counselling ~~ it’s mainly ac-
tive listening and referring.”’

Last month, which was slower
than usual for VAP, the program
handled 136 calls and sent out 74
letters.

Added Walsoff, *‘We will send

out letters to people who we have
trouble contacting or who would
fike further information.”

VAP volunteers work from
Police files and address cases in-
volving residential break and
enters, sudden death, assaults,
suicides, missing people, and
obscene or threatening phone
calls.

All potential volunteers are ask-
ed io make a one-year commit-
ment to the pregram.

They must undergo an RCMP
security check before joining the
program and must adhere to strict
rules of confidentiality.

Volunteer application packages
can be picked up at the North
Vancouver RCMP detachment.

NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP Victim Assistance Program (VAP) volunteers provide a follow-up sup-
port service to crime victims. The program needs more volunteers. Some of the people helping
now are (foreground left to right) Donna MacDougall and Ann Connolly. In the background (left to
right) are program coordinator Linda Walsoff, Gerrie Van Ooyen, Barb Tooias and Sharon Wright.

MEWS photo Cind

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