What Paris Aide aux Victimes does

Paris Aide aux Victimes (PAV75) is a French non-profit association (Loi 1901) founded on 27 November 1987 and headquartered at 12 rue Charles Fourier in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The association is officially approved (agréée) by the French Ministry of Justice and delivers free, confidential victim-assistance services to victims of criminal offenses, collective catastrophes (including terrorism), and road traffic accidents. Its service offering rests on three integrated pillars — psychological support delivered by 10 specialized psychologists, legal information and procedural guidance delivered by 10 specialized jurists, and social accompaniment by social workers — operating across 11 physical access points distributed across Paris, including two main antennas, the Bureau d'Aide aux Victimes at the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris, the Unité Médico-Judiciaire at Hôtel-Dieu, and CASAVIA at Pitié-Salpêtrière.

The underlying delivery model is location-and-human-intensive rather than technology-based: there are no proprietary digital products, applications, or platforms developed, and the technology field is explicitly classified as not applicable. Service differentiation comes from 35+ years of institutional expertise, multidisciplinary clinical teams, and embedded presence in the French judicial ecosystem rather than from software. Specialized programs include trial accompaniment (Pôle procès), the VIP program for victims of impossible prosecutions, coordinated response with CUMP for collective events, and a Qualiopi-certified training organization that delivers professional courses to police, associations, and social workers. Recent product outputs extend the mission into published materials, notably two 2025 pedagogical notebooks for children facing intrafamily violence.

The revenue model is entirely subsidy-based: PAV75 is financed by public grants from the Ministry of Justice, Ville de Paris, Conseil Régional d'Île-de-France, Préfecture d'Île-de-France, and CDAD. All victim services are provided free of charge, with the training arm representing a small auxiliary revenue stream. End-user volume is substantial — 13,506 victims served and 62,564 consultations in 2024, up from 6,159 victims and 15,469 contacts in 2012. Governance is by a Board of Directors (Conseil d'Administration) with a Bureau led by Présidente Caroline LACROIX, while operations are led by Directrice Carole Damiani, who also serves as a public-facing media spokesperson on terrorism, secondary victimization, and trauma.

Name

Paris Aide aux Victimes

Legal name

Paris Aide aux Victimes 75

Website

https://pav75.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Paris Aide aux Victimes (PAV75) is a French Ministry of Justice-approved non-profit association that provides free, confidential psychological, legal, and social support to victims of criminal offenses, terrorism, and collective accidents across 11 Paris locations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Victim Assistance Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Victim Services & Witness Assistance (Justice System) (BPAIAFAJ)

Keywords

• Victim assistance services
• Psychological support services
• Legal information services
• Criminal victim advocacy
• Social accompaniment services

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Public funding / subsidies: PAV75 is financed by public subsidies from multiple government sources including the Ministère de la Justice, Ville de Paris, Conseil Régional d'Ile de France, Préfecture d'Ile de France, and CDAD. As a non-profit association (loi 1901), services to victims are provided free of charge.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels9 records

Marketing channels12 records

Core offering

Paris Aide aux Victimes (PAV75) is a French non-profit association approved by the Ministry of Justice that provides free, confidential psychological support, legal information, and social accompaniment to victims of criminal offenses, collective catastrophes, and road traffic accidents. Services are delivered through a multidisciplinary team of 10 psychologists, 10 jurists, and social workers across 11 physical locations in Paris, including dedicated victim assistance bureaus at the Tribunal de Paris and the Court of Appeal.

Product overview

Paris Aide aux Victimes (PAV75) is a non-profit association (Loi 1901) approved by the Ministry of Justice that provides comprehensive victim support services through three core pillars: psychological support (10 specialized psychologists), legal information and guidance (10 specialized jurists), and social support. The organization operates 11 antennae across Paris, manages dedicated victim assistance bureaus (BAV) at the Judicial Court and Court of Appeal, and provides specialized programs including trial accompaniment (Pôle procès), collective incident response, and the VIP program for victims of impossible prosecutions. Additionally, as a certified training organization (Qualiopi), PAV75 offers professional training programs in psychology, law, and multidisciplinary topics. In 2025, the organization launched innovative pedagogical notebooks for children facing intrafamily violence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Psychological Support Services Psychological support delivered by 10 specialized psychologists to victims throughout the judicial procedure, including crisis debriefings, group sessions, and guidance for parents of minor victims.
• Legal Information and Guidance Services Legal information and procedural guidance provided by 10 specialized jurists covering victim rights, judicial procedures, and accompaniment in legal and administrative steps.
• Social Support Services Orientation and accompaniment toward competent services, delivered by 1 in-house social worker and 1 social worker seconded from the City of Paris.
• Trial Accompaniment (Pôle procès)

Quantifiable outcome

• 13,506 victims served in 2024 with 62,564 consultations
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• Ville de PariscoreOthers · 1 January 1987Municipal government funder of PAV75 operations. Provides funding and may coordinate services with city social services.
• Ministère de la JusticecoreOthersPrimary government funder and authorizing body. PAV75 is officially agréée (approved) by the Ministry of Justice, which provides funding and legitimizes the association's role in the judicial system.
• Conseil Régional d'Ile de FrancecoreOthersRegional council funder providing public subsidies to support PAV75 operations.
• Préfecture d'Ile de France / Préfecture de Police de PariscoreOthersPrefectural funding and operational partnership for victim assistance services, including presence at police stations.
• CDAD (Conseil Départemental d'Accès au Droit)secondaryOthersDepartmental council for access to justice providing funding support for legal information services.
• Parquet de Paris (Procureur de Paris)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing operational partnership including seizure of PAV75 under Article 41-*in fine* of Code de Procédure Pénale for serious events. Joint work on secondary victimization with November 2024 AVEC working group. PAV75 operates Bureau d'Aide aux Victimes at the Tribunal.
• Barreau de PariscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParis Bar partnership including special minors antenna and collaboration on victim legal representation. Participated in AVEC working group in November 2024.
• AP-HP (Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMajor healthcare system partnership for victim assistance at hospital locations including UMJ Hôtel-Dieu and CASAVIA at Pitié Salpêtrière. Also CRPT Paris (Centre Régional de Psychotrauma) coordination. Part of AVEC working group.
• CUMP Paris (Cellule d'Urgence Médico Psychologique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEmergency psychological intervention team coordination for immediate crisis response to collective events. PAV75 psychologues intervene in coordination with CUMP from the post-immediate phase through long-term support.
• Centre de Victimologie des Mineurs (CVM) de TrousseaucoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpecialized child victimology center partnership for coordinated care of minor victims and their families, including psychological support and parental guidance.
• France VictimescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational federation of 135 victim assistance associations. PAV75 is a member organization. France Victimes operates the 116006 national helpline that refers callers to local associations. Provides documentary collaboration and network coordination.
• IDFAV (Ile De France Aide aux Victimes)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional federation of 12 victim assistance associations in Ile-de-France. PAV75 is a member. IDFAV animates the 'ABRI' anonymity and free helpline (0800 730 650) for sexual aggression and sexist harassment victims in the region.
• Délégation Interministérielle à l'Aide aux Victimes (DIAV)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInterministerial government body overseeing victim assistance policy. Conducted field visit to PAV75 in May 2025, demonstrating high-level governmental recognition and support.
• Brigade de Protection des MineurssecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerPolice unit specializing in minor protection - partnership for coordinated response to child victims.
• Université Paris 13 / Hôpital Avicenne AP-HPsecondaryOthersAcademic partnership with Thierry Baubet (professor of child/adolescent psychiatry, co-director of cn2r National Center for Resources and Resilience) for trauma expertise.
• Specialized victim associations ('Quand dire', 'Enfant bleu', 'Enfance et partage', 'Elles imaginent', 'Espace solidarité/HAFB')secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of specialized partner associations for specific victim populations (child victims, domestic violence victims) with referral and coordination relationships.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IDFAV (Ile-de-France Aide aux Victimes): Regional federation of 12 victim assistance associations in Ile-de-France, of which PAV75 is a member; animates the ABRI helpline for sexual aggression victims in the region. Direct peer at sub-national scope.
• France Victimes: National federation of 135 victim assistance associations, of which PAV75 is a member; operates the 116006 national helpline that refers callers to local associations including PAV75. Closest mission-aligned peer at national scope.
• Fédération Nationale Solidarité Femmes (FNSF): National federation for women's shelters and domestic-violence support; directly comparable on the domestic-violence victim segment that PAV75 explicitly serves.
• Centre de Victimologie des Mineurs (CVM) de Trousseau: Specialized child-victimology center at Hôpital Trousseau; partner of PAV75 on minor-victim cases. Direct peer in the child-victim segment.
• CIDFF (Centre d'Information sur les Droits des Femmes et des Familles): National network providing legal information, victim accompaniment, and family support across France, with overlapping jurist-led services and similar legal-information mission as PAV75.

Others

• Victim Support Europe: European federation of victim-support organizations providing policy advocacy, training, and network coordination across 33+ countries; thematically comparable but not a direct service competitor to PAV75.
• Centre Régional de Psychotrauma (CRPT) de Paris: AP-HP-affiliated psychotrauma care center coordinating with PAV75; institutional partner rather than competitor, but operates adjacent trauma-care services with comparable clinical expertise.

Broad incumbents

• Croix-Rouge Française: Large incumbent French social-services NGO that operates victim-support and emergency-psychological responses overlapping PAV75's collective-event work, but as part of a much broader humanitarian mandate.
• Caritas France: Large national social-services NGO providing accompaniment, shelter, and legal support to vulnerable populations; adjacent rather than direct victim-assistance peer, funded through public subsidies and donations.

Regional players

• Victim Support UK: UK's lead independent victim-support charity with analogous psychological support, legal information, and casework services; comparable operating model outside France.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights8 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/parispav75
• Facebookfacebook.com/PAV75
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/paris-aide-aux-victimes

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Paris Aide aux Victimes