About and Contact

About Me: Randy McCall

Founder, President and General Manager, Victim Assistance Online

http://www.vaonline.org/

info@vaonline.org

Telephone:

• Business VOIP:  (202) 657 5507
• Skype:  randy.mccall

For some detailed information on my background, please download my CV:  Randy McCall CV (Adobe Acrobat file)

I’ve also created a Facebook page, a Twitter account and an e-mail listserv where people can follow both the planning stages, and the actual blogging tours as they take place.

VASnapshots Facebook

VASnapshots Twitter

VASnapshots Google Group

About the VASnapshots Project

The VASnapshots Travelblog is a project to organize a North American blogging tour of victim assistance and service organizations, with the intention of promoting these services and their regional issues.

For those who don’t know, my name is Randy McCall, and I’m founder, President and GM of Victim Assistance Online, a 15-year old non-profit organization which provides free information, networking and communication services to the global victim assistance community, as well as being connected with many other victim assistance organizations.

Presently VAOnline.org is helping connect more than 500 individuals, agencies and institutions in 23 countries.  Over the years the information we’ve helped research and present on our listservs and other networks has affected the lives of tens of thousands of victims of crime and abuse of power.

To help celebrate a milestone in my life, I’m planning on touring North America (both Canada and the United States) to visit some of the many thousands of agencies and  individuals who’ve helped make VAOnline.org such a success.  I want to blog on my travels — certainly with photographs, perhaps with video or audio as well  –  exploring the country as I go, writing  it’s sights and attractions, as well as spotlighting victim service and assistance organizations / agencies / institutions, their services and the issues specific to their local or region which are affecting victims of crime.

Not being independently wealthy, I have to plan this on a tight budget.  I’m asking agencies interested in having me visit their area for a room (or at least a couch).  I’m investigating other resources of course, which is why this is the Planning site for this project.

I’m tracking agencies from which I’ve received invitations through Google Maps, by State and Province (and, in one nice offer I can’t being able to do, another country).  You can view the interactive map below:

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Click on a blue balloon to see information on individual stops, or or to see the number organizations which have made an offer of support.  As you can see, right now the tour stops appear to be developing into separate  East-coast and West-coast tours.