Services We Provide

Advocacy

Advocacy serves to help victims of sexual violence and human trafficking, and assists throughout the recovery process.

Provides:
- Court advocacy
- 24-hour hospital response
- 24hr/7 day a week crisis line
- Community collaboration for survivor's needs

Intervention/Recovery

Intervention services focuses on providing victims with services in order to promote their psychological well-being in the aftermath of a traumatic event. In addition, the intervention specialist oversees all programs housed within Rape Crisis.

Provides:
- Supervising programs including 24-hour hospital response
- Expansion services in Harding/Van Wert counties
- Trauma-focused counseling
- Collaboration with the Family Justice Center, for anti-human trafficking outreach efforts

Prevention

Prevention services seek to change cultural norms that permit sexual violence throughout the Social-Ecological Model.

- Works with area schools for programming on intimate partner violence/sexual violence prevention in Health classes and peer led prevention
- Outreach to local universities
- Men of Valor Excelling! (MOVE!) - male peer support group

Our Staff

Crime Victim Services
330 N. Elizabeth St. 2nd Floor
Lima, OH 45801
Ph. 419-222-8666
FAX 419-227-7478

Rape Crisis & Anti-Human Trafficking Director 

Kathryn “Ryn” Farmer, MSW, LSW, RA
Email: rfarmer@crimevictimservices.org

Rape Crisis Regional Coordinator

Raven Loaiza, MSW, LSW, RA
Email: rloaiza@crimevictimservices.org

Survivor Advocates (​Sexual Assault)

Brooke Law, MSW, LSW                                                                                                                       Email: blaw@crimevictimservices.org
Nicole Fairburn, LSW
Email: nfairburn@crimevictimservices.org​

Violence Prevention Coordinator​

Charlotte Powell, M. Ed.
Email: cpowell@crimevictimservices.org​

Violence Prevention Educators

Kianna Collins, BA                                                                                           
Email: kcollins@crimevictimservices.org
Aruna Manisekaran, MPH, CPH
Email: amanisekaran@crimevictimservices.org