Tribal Protective Services (TPS) is a program that provides safety, mobile advocacy, and supportive services for people who have been victimized by a crime in the TCC region.
CONTACT US:
907-452-8251 ext. 6767
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EMERGENCY NUMBERS
Emergency Response: 911
Alaska State Troopers: 907-451-5100
Mobile Advocate Cell: 907-347-5430
LOCATION
Davis Building
2175 S. University Ave.
Fairbanks, AK 99709
TPS may be able to assist people who have been victimized by a crime with individualized and client-centered support that may include:
- Safety planning
- Crisis Intervention
- Case Management
- Mobile Advocacy
- Outreach & education
- Financial planning
- Legal support
- Emergency shelter, relocation services, and/or transitional housing
- Support for families with missing and murdered loved ones
- Voluntary victim support services
- Burial services and support
- Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) advocacy response
- Coordination and partnership with other resources as requested
Are You Being Abused?
Does your partner…
- Call you names?
- Threaten to take the kids away?
- Push or shove you?
- Hit or punch you?
- Try to scare you by destroying your property of use threatening behavior?
- Threaten to hurt the ones you love?
- Try to keep you from your family or friends?
- Get angry when you are not home at a designated time or has to be with you at all times?
- Force you to be intimate or do things you are not comfortable with?
- Constantly accuse you of flirting or act extremely jealous?
Answering “yes” to any of the above statements may mean that you are in an abusive relationship.
Abusive relationships have a tendency to continue without outside intervention which leaves the opportunity for things to get worse. Seeking help from your local domestic violence program can increase the success of the relationship overcoming these obstacles.
Physical and Emotional Reactions to Abuse
No one chooses to become a victim of crime or abuse. Yet, unfortunately, everyday thousands of people from every walk of life do through no fault of their own. Crime does not discriminate based on race, sex, income, marital or relationship status, religion, age or sexual orientation. Anyone can become a victim of crime. Victims, witnesses, and their family members can experience a range of physical and
emotional reactions to the crime:
- Changes in appetite
- Mood swings
- Muscle tension or fatigue
- Nightmares or intrusive flashbacks
- Changes in sleeping patterns
- Increased substance use/abuse
- Fear, anxiety, depression, and grief
- Misplaced anger, blame or guilt
- Inability to concentrate
- Forgetfulness
- Hyper-alertness or hyper-sensitivity
- Questioning faith in God or a Creator
- Avoidance of people, places, things or situations that are a reminder of incident(s)
- Loss of memory for parts of or even the entirety of incident(s). Memories of the incident may return in disconnected bits and pieces unexpectedly
- Inability to express thoughts or feelings adequately
- Inability to express the sequence of events correctly
- Feelings of being overwhelmed and/or feeling numb or detached
These reactions and others can appear within minutes or hours of the crime or may take weeks or months to develop. They may come and go in intensity and frequency and may appear in isolation or in combination with other reactions. How long they last can depend on many things including: the importance of the crime to the individual, physical injuries, family and community support for the victim, prior victimizations, length, severity and frequency of this and prior incidents, assistance and care received after the crime, the victim’s belief that justice was served and many other factors.
There is no “correct” way to react to becoming a crime victim or witness, nor is there a timeline for restoring a sense of “normalcy” to life. Each individual will react in their own way and heal in their own time. Help for working through the aftermath of the crime is available.
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Family violence/abuse is a pattern of behaviors used to control another person. Abuse can be either emotional, physical, or sexual. Battering can be a punch, hit, kick or a severe beating that sometimes results in death. Battering can be done by anyone including strangers, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, wives, lovers and other relatives.
Sexual Assault can be defined as ANY forced sexual contact: an incident that involves sexual contact that is forced on someone. Sexual assault or rape has very little to do with sex, rather, it’s a crime of power and control where sex is the weapon used against an individual.
Stalking is a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. A stalker does not care what
age, gender or race, a stalker is a predator and looking for prey. Stalking is not a joke. It’s not romantic. It’s not ok. Stop stalking. It’s a crime.
Teen dating violence is about power. Whether through words or actions, the abuse is meant to control or hurt another person. Teen dating violence runs across race, age and gender.
Crime can impact individuals, families, and communities. Crime can include burglary, identity theft, assault, and gang violence. CRIMES
are real and have lasting impact. Police and emergency responders are trained and ready to assist.
• Educate yourself
• Believe them
• Listen to them
• Respect their confidentiality
• Let them make their own decisions
• Encourage them to develop a safety plan
• Encourage them to take threats
• Seriously
• Be patient
• Be there for them but be careful
• Encourage them to seek help
This Memorandum of Agreement was produced by Tanana Chiefs Conference under [2019-VO-GX-0029 & 2020-VOGX-0030], awarded by the Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this MOA are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.