Federal Act
on Support for the Victims of Crime
(Victim Support Act, VSA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall provide fin­an­cial as­sist­ance to pro­mote the spe­cial­ist train­ing of staff at coun­selling centres and of those re­spons­ible for vic­tim sup­port.

² It shall take ac­count of the spe­cial needs of cer­tain cat­egor­ies of vic­tims, in par­tic­u­lar the needs of minors who are vic­tims of sexu­al of­fences.