FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | VAWO | OCTOBER 2000 | 202/307-0703 |
RURAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILD VICTIMS BENEFIT FROM OVER $23 MILLION IN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FUNDING
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Victims of domestic violence and their children living in 63 rural areas in 41 states will receive improved services as a result of $23.9 million in new funding announced by the Justice Department today. The grants are for improving the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence and child abuse cases and to increase victims' access to advocacy and counseling in rural areas.
"Service delivery in rural areas can be difficult," said Bonnie Campbell, Director of the Violence Against Women Office (VAWO), which administers the grants. "These funds help police officers, prosecutors, and victim advocates to develop comprehensive programs that draw on rural jurisdictions' unique characteristics, such as grassroots coalitions and community service groups, to investigate and prosecute domestic violence offenders and provide victims with safe shelter and services."
The Justice Department's Violence Against Women Office (VAWO) has awarded funds to 63 grantees under the Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement Grant Program to continue projects begun with Fiscal Year 1998 grant funds.
Goals of the rural program include developing and implementing policies and services to promote the early identification, intervention and prevention of domestic violence and child victimization; increasing victims' safety and access to treatment and counseling; and enhancing the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence and child abuse cases.
"Our program helps criminal justice and social service staff to find creative solutions to some of the problems they face in their rural communities," added Bonnie Campbell. "Victim advocates, often paired up with police officers, can get victims in a remote area to court or social service providers."
Congress appropriated $25 million for this year's rural program. Local jurisdictions within 19 rural states (as defined in the law: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming) are eligible to apply directly for funding. If a state is classified as non-rural, the state is eligible to apply on behalf of its rural jurisdictions.
Attached is a list of the specific grant awards. More information about the rural program and other violence against women efforts is available on VAWO's Website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo or OJP's Website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov, or call the National Criminal Justice Reference Service toll-free on 1-800/851-3420.
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OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS
FY 2000 RURAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND
CHILD VICTIMIZATION ENFORCEMENT GRANTS
STATE |
JURISDICTION |
GRANTEE |
AMOUNT |
ALASKA |
Barrow |
North Slope Borough |
$352,611 |
ARIZONA |
Window Rock |
DNA People's Legal Services, Inc. |
$344,807 |
Phoenix |
Arizona Office of the Governor |
$856,718 | |
ARKANSAS |
Fort Smith |
Crisis Center for Battered Women |
$70,000 |
Fayetteville |
Project for Victims of Family Violence |
$183,870 | |
CALIFORNIA |
Sacramento |
Inter-Tribal Council of California, Inc. |
$304,997 |
Eureka |
Yurok Tribe |
$224,997 | |
COLORADO |
Woodland Park |
City of Woodland Park |
$350,000 |
CONNECTICUT |
Hartford |
Connecticut Office of Policy and Management |
$350,000 |
DELAWARE |
Wilmington |
Delaware Criminal Justice Council |
$500,000 |
FLORIDA |
Tallahassee |
Florida Department of Community Affairs |
$400,393 |
GEORGIA |
Atlanta |
Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council |
$500,000 |
HAWAII |
Honolulu |
Hawaii Department of the Attorney General |
$498,588 |
IDAHO |
Sandpoint |
Bonner County Homeless Task Force |
$399,990 |
Rexburg |
Family Crisis Center |
$192,531 | |
Twin Falls |
Twin Falls County |
$162,000 | |
ILLINOIS |
Chicago |
Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority |
$400,000 |
IOWA |
Des Moines |
Iowa Governor's Alliance on Substance Abuse |
$553,960 |
KANSAS |
Topeka |
Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence |
$400,000 |
KENTUCKY |
Frankfort |
Kentucky Justice Cabinet |
$230,350 |
MARYLAND |
Baltimore |
Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention |
$450,000 |
MASSACHUSETTS |
Boston |
Massachusetts Bureau of Family and Community Health |
$574,680 |
MONTANA |
Bozeman |
City of Bozeman |
$169,773 |
Missoula |
Missoula County |
$269,591 | |
Thompson Falls |
Sanders County Coalition for Families |
$138,679 | |
NEBRASKA |
Omaha |
Voices of Children in Nebraska |
$199,604 |
NEVADA |
Las Vegas |
Andre Agassi Foundation |
$500,000 |
Carson City |
Nevada Office of the Attorney General |
$111,130 | |
NEW HAMPSHIRE |
Concord |
New Hampshire Department of Justice |
$386,448 |
NEW MEXICO |
Albuquerque |
American Indian Law Center |
$149,761 |
Albuquerque |
Morning Star House, Inc. |
$474,776 | |
Jemez Pueblo |
Pueblo of Jemez |
$143,572 | |
Zuni |
Pueblo of Zuni |
$353,187 | |
San Juan Pueblo |
San Juan Pueblo |
$349,314 | |
Las Cruces |
Third Judicial District Attorney's Office |
$375,000 | |
NEW YORK |
Albany |
New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services |
$299,553 |
NORTH CAROLINA |
Cherokee |
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians |
$150,000 |
Raleigh |
North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety |
$183,320 | |
NORTH DAKOTA |
Bismarck |
North Dakota Council on Abused Women |
$294,000 |
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS |
Saipan |
Criminal Justice Planning Agency |
$55,305 |
OHIO |
Columbus |
Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services |
$694,842 |
OKLAHOMA |
Miami |
Community Crisis Center, Inc. |
$273,424 |
OREGON |
Madras |
Jefferson County |
$396,834 |
Grants Pass |
Josephine County District Attorney's Office |
$419,666 | |
OREGON |
Reedsport |
Lower Umpqua Victims' Services |
$350,000 |
Vale |
Malheur County
District Attorney's Office |
$234,899 | |
Salem |
Oregon State Office for Services to Children and Families |
$356,418 | |
PENNSYLVANIA |
Harrisburg |
Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency |
$415,000 |
RHODE ISLAND |
Providence |
Governor's Justice Commission |
$351,720 |
SOUTH DAKOTA |
Kyle |
Cangleska, Inc. |
$350,000 |
Pierre |
South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault |
$687,893 | |
Mission |
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society, Inc. |
$225,000 | |
TENNESSEE |
Nashville |
Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration |
$534,161 |
TEXAS |
Austin |
Texas Office of the Governor |
$670,248 |
UTAH |
Orem |
City of Orem |
$110,000 |
Provo |
City of Provo |
$210,286 | |
VERMONT |
Waterbury |
Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services |
$799,534 |
Burlington |
Women Helping Battered Women |
$249,043 | |
VIRGINIA |
Richmond |
Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services |
$500,000 |
WASHINGTON |
Olympia |
Washington Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development |
$618,718 |
WEST VIRGINIA |
Charleston |
West Virginia Division of Criminal Justice Services |
$168,350 |
WISCONSIN |
Madison |
Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance |
$612,756 |
WYOMING |
Laramie |
Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault |
$599,363 |
TOTAL |
63 |
63 |
$23,850,288 |