The National Training Institute emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to sharing promising practices, current research, and effective programs and policies that are victim-centered, practice-based, and research-informed.

The National Training Institute is a forum for law enforcement, victim service professionals, allied practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to share current developments and build new collaborations.

Sessions will highlight practical information to better support services for the wide range of persons victimized by crimes of all types.

Senior services staff have been specifically trained to provide referrals, community resources, and additional support to prevent and increase awareness of elder abuse.

It was created with funds from the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime in partnership with the National Congress of American Indians and the Tribal Law and Policy Institute.

The National Center evaluates field site’s Victim Service Units, conducts joint analyses with partner organizations and hosts training on subjects, such as Domestic Violence and Firearms.

[11] Following the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a movie theater in Aurora, a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, and Virginia Tech, the victims' families found that questions over the method of distributing charitable contributions caused them even more pain.

[25][26] In December 2017, the National Center for Victims of Crime supported the Combat Online Predators Act, a bill to increase the maximum sentence in federal prison for stalking a minor.

It required national governing bodies to develop and enforce methods to prevent, report, and respond to the abuse of child athletes.

[35] The federal grant funding the Stalking Resource Center was awarded to a different nonprofit organization, AEquitas, effective October 1, 2017.

[48] Martha "Sunny" von Bulow's husband was arrested and charged with attempting to murder her by insulin overdose that ended up resulting in an irreversible coma.

[49] The two of them teamed up with Auersperg's sister Annie-Laurie and Morris Gurley, Sunny von Bulow's financial adviser, to form a new nonprofit organization with Patterson as director.

[49][50] The organization was named the Sunny von Bulow Victim Advocacy Center, and it opened in January 1986, in Fort Worth, Texas.