Jayne Crisp is a firm advocate of faith-based, restorative approaches to victim interventions.  A Certified Trauma Specialist and a Victim Assistance Specialist, she employs her specialized training as a consultant for the Training and Technical Assistance Center of the Office for Victims of Crime, US Department of Justice.  

Crisp has served as a faculty member of the National Victim Assistance Academy. Currently, she is on the faculty of the Attorney Generals' Designation Training in Florida. Also, she works as the Training and Development Specialist for Prison Fellowship Ministries (PFM) and the international conference coordinator for the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists.

Jayne Crisp became a crime victim advocate since 1974 when she founded South Carolina’s first Rape Crisis Council.  In 1978 she created South Carolina’s first prosecutor-based victim assistance program in Greenville, SC.  She directed the program for 13 years.

A member of the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA) for 22 years and a member of the NOVA board for 12 years, Jayne is a founding member and president of the South Carolina Victim Assistance Standards and Certification Board.  From 1995 to 2001, she served as the national director of victim services for Neighbors Who Care, a victim assistance ministry and subsidiary of Prison Fellowship.

The co-author of Helping a Neighbor in Crisis, written for the religious and faith community (Tyndale Publishing Company, 1997) and author of Surviving Violent Crime: A Handbook for Victims, she has trained pastors and lay leaders to respond to trauma following school shootings in Littleton, Colorado and Jonesboro, Arkansas.  Crisp created and volunteered as the coordinator of the South Carolina Volunteer Crisis Response Team Consortium, the team that assisted Union, SC, by responding to the community in the weeks and months following the double homicides by their mother of Michael and Alex Smith.

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I have learned much from the many victims of crime and crisis I have met over the years. 

They have demonstrated extraordinary courage in their determination to transcend tragedy and loss. 

Their strength, faith and resolve give us hope and inspiration.

Jayne Crisp 

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Leading Edge.  Crisp’s current works in progress include Don’t Pass Me By, a PFM crisis intervention training manual and curricula for volunteers to help people in crisis; and Long Journey Home, PFM curricula for volunteers who help ex-prisoners transition back into the community.  

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Reach Jayne Crisp at Jcrisp@aol.com

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