support of victim advocates and service providers, empowering victims as engaged participants in the process, and providing victims an opportunity to play a role in seeing their abusers brought to justice. (10) United States The term United States means the 50 States of the United States of America and the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other trust territory or possession of the United States.