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    Register for the Victim Notification Program

    If you are the victim of a personal injury crime and your offender is convicted, diagnosed with a mental illness, and requires treatment in a state hospital for people with mental illness, you have the right to be notified. 

    Enrollment Form (PDF)

    Overview

    Registration in the Victim Notification Program is voluntary. 

    If you enroll in the Department of Human Services’ Victim Notification Program, you will be notified of your offender's transfer, discharge, or unplanned departure from a state hospital.

    No information about you or your enrollment will be disclosed to the offender or anyone other than criminal justice officials without your written consent.

    Enrollment in the program may occur in several ways:

    • If an offender is hospitalized, the local district attorney or victim notification coordinator will notify you and help you complete the enrollment form.
    • If the offender is hospitalized while under sentence in a jail or prison, the correctional agency will tell you where the person was admitted and will provide you with the link to access the enrollment form online. If you do not have web access, you can ask the correctional agency to send you the form.
    • If the offender was hospitalized before 1994, you may call or write the victim notification coordinator at the admitting hospital to enroll.

    You will be enrolled until the offender is released from jail or prison.

    Submitting an Enrollment Form

    You can enroll in the Victim Notification Program by completing an enrollment form and mailing it to the proper state hospital.

    Download, Complete, and Mail Your Form

    1. Complete an enrollment form after you have been informed of the offender's hospitalization.
    2. Mail the form to the hospital where the offender has been admitted.

    Hospital Address and Phone Numbers

    • CLARKS SUMMIT STATE HOSPITAL
      1451 Hillside Drive Clarks Summit, PA 18411-9505
      Phone: 570-586-2011 (Info.)
      Phone: 570-587-7307 (Coordinator)

    • DANVILLE STATE HOSPITAL
      200 State Hospital Drive Danville, PA 17821-9198
      Phone: 570-271-4510 (Info.)
      Phone: 570-271-4568 (Coordinator)

    • NORRISTOWN STATE HOSPITAL
      1001 Sterigere Street Norristown, PA 19401-5397
      Phone: 610-313-1000 (Info.)
      Phone: 610-313-5763 (Coordinator)
    • SOUTH MOUNTAIN RESTORATION CENTER
    • 10058 South Mountain Road South Mountain, PA 17261-0999
      Phone: 717-749-4001 (Info.)
      Phone: 717-749-4022 (Coordinator)

    • TORRANCE STATE HOSPITAL
      P.O. Box 111 Torrance, PA 15779-0111
      Phone: 724-459-8000 (Info.)
      Phone: 724-459-4412 (Coordinator)

    • WARREN STATE HOSPITAL
      33 Main Drive North Warren, PA 16365-5099
      Phone: 814-723-4415 (Info.)
      Phone: 814-726-4144 (Coordinator)
    • WERNERSVILLE STATE HOSPITAL
    • P.O. Box 300 Wernersville, PA 19565-0300
      Phone: 610-670-3411 (Info.)
      Phone: 610-670-4160 (Coordinator)

    Frequently Asked Questions