Our Team.

Andrea Darr

Andrea Darr is the director of the West Virginia Center for Children’s Justice, which promotes and supports a statewide trauma informed response to child maltreatment and children’s exposure to violence. 

The Center, housed in the Crimes Against Children Unit at the WV State Police, streamlines resources and minimizes duplicative efforts to address challenges, barriers, gaps, and needed improvements in working child maltreatment cases. The Center includes both the WV Children’s Justice Task Force and the WV Handle with Care Initiative. 

Before devoting herself to working full-time on children’s initiatives, Andrea served as the Coordinator of Victim Witness Services for the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute from 2005-2015. In that capacity, she coordinated with prosecution-based victim witness assistance programs as well as community-based programs to improve their collective knowledge concerning available resources and information and to establish a bridge between local, state, and federal agencies regarding victim issues. Andrea has also worked in direct services with victims of crime, violence, and abuse while serving as the Victim Liaison at the Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.