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Funding cuts and the increase in employers’ national insurance contributions will have “dire consequences” for victims of domestic and sexual violence, charities have warned. On Monday, a ...
No part of the state is untouched by domestic violence. Domestic violence homicides took place in 22 of Wisconsin's 72 counties last year, with about 42% occurring in rural areas and 58% in urban ...
Sep. 23—At a time when reports of domestic violence have reached a record number, local victim advocates are short on funding. More than 27,000 incidents — murder, sex crimes, threats and ...
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) is a United States law, first authorized as part of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 (PL 98–457), that provides federal funding to help victims of domestic violence and their dependent children by providing shelter and related help, offering violence prevention programs, and improving how service agencies work together in communities.
This came two months after budget reductions due to the federal sequester cut funding for more than 57,000 children in the Head Start Program. [170] On October 8, 2013, John D. Arnold and his wife Laura donated $10 million to the National Head Start Association in response to the continuing government shutdown. Their donation helped to pay for ...
In the aftermath of the 2014 Killing of Tamir Rice, [1] the 2015 United States Department of Justice consent decree showed a Cleveland Division of Police pattern of excessive use of force, [2] established the Community Police Commission, [1] and required a community policing model [3] department wide rather than a designated unit. [4] In 2021 ...
Over the past five years, U.S. groups have received less money, including the Upstate's First Light, Project R.E.S.T., and Julie Valentine Center
Futures Without Violence (formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund) is a non-profit organization with offices in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Boston, United States, with the goal of ending domestic and sexual violence. Futures Without Violence is involved in community-based programs, developing educational materials, and in public ...