And the cost will only go up in 2026.

We need care, dignity, and access.
Real treatment. Real safety. Real justice.

At a time when essential victim services are being scaled back due to federal funding cuts, we must continue to center survivor voices in working towards solutions. Investing in support for survivors is foundational to safety, healing, and justice.

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This year’s honorees were Delegate Jackie Glass and Senator Tammy Mulchi for their work in the legislature and Thomas Beebe for his work on data collection and analysis in Virginia.

We're grateful to have incredible partners who work each day to support survivors and create safer communities.

We’re grateful to every survivor who trusted the room with their truth and to every prosecutor who showed up ready to hear hard things.

That’s how real accountability begins.

They named what’s working, what’s missing, and what must change for healing to be possible.

The message was clear:
Public safety cannot be defined without the people most impacted.

In her @calmatters.org piece, Jess Nichol — sister of Polly Klaas and survivor advocate — lays out what survivors have been saying for years: politicians often weaponize their pain instead of listening to it.

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