May 4, 2010

MOVA Launches Redesigned Site with Help from Springfield Agency

(Springfield – May 1, 2010) – A public/private partnership between the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA) and a local Springfield design agency has created a new way for victims, witnesses and survivors of crime in the Commonwealth to access the resources they need.

MOVA is an independent state agency devoted to upholding and advancing the rights of crime victims. From individual victim advocacy, community education and professional training to legislative policy-setting, funding and program management, MOVA works to ensure that victims and survivors have the supports, services and rights they need and deserve.

Their new website makes it easier for crime victims, survivors, and those who support and assist them, to find the right information, quickly. An important part of the website is the “MOVA Help Directory.” This comprehensive database provides a quick way to search for information on topics of violent crime including sexual assault, domestic violence, gang violence, hate crimes and elder abuse.

Janet Fine, Executive Director of MOVA expressed her enthusiasm for the newly created website, “We are committed to ensuring that people seeking information, services and support in the aftermath of crime can access it whenever they need it. Our new website is one very important way in which we will be able to do so for people with varied needs and from all communities around the state.”

To implement this large scale web development project, the agency chose Graphix For Change. The Springfield company provides graphic design, grounded in social change and informed by the latest in marketing.

“MOVA is all about reaching and serving victims of crime in Massachusetts and getting them connected to the people and resources they need,” said Marianne Winters, Project Manager for Graphix for Change. “That’s why this is the perfect partnership for us; we bring a commitment to social justice and technical knowledge in website development so that together with MOVA, we were able to create this important information resource for victims across the state.”

The new MOVA website can be found at http://www.mass.gov/MOVA.
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