We are facing huge budget cuts to victim survivor services.
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** A Message from the Executive Director/CEO
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Dear Friend,
I’m writing to you today to ask for your IMMEDIATE attention and help. As of July 1st, POV is facing a $1.6 million budget cut due to drastic reductions to the federal victim of crime (VOCA) funding. This is a 47% funding reduction and will have a devastating impact on our work, and it has already begun.
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In the state of California, 400 agencies including rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelter and non-shelter programs, child abuse centers, and legal services to survivors will experience cuts up to 48%. These programs serve the communities that need it the most. Over 40 agencies will be impacted in Los Angeles County alone.
Without critical services from rape crisis centers, victim survivors and their families will be left without recourse--crisis support, healing modalities, and legal services are being gutted. Calls to hotlines will go unanswered. There will be no place available to refer people that we are unable to serve. POV has already laid off three members of our legal staff, heavily impacting our ability to help survivors legally protect themselves and their children. Non-shelter domestic violence programs, like ours, serve a huge amount of survivors and are part of the domestic violence response network in LA county.
** Where will survivors go?
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We've spent 50 years building a network that is set to be dismantled this summer. Governor Newsom didn't include funding for crime victim services in his latest budget. We have only a few weeks left to demand he and the California Legislature support survivors.
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POV is a dual agency, one of the first in the nation serving survivors of both sexual and domestic violence. Our intervention and prevention programs served over 20,000 individuals and their families last year. With almost half of our VOCA funding cut, we will not have the capacity to serve the survivors that rely on our advocacy and programming. Please consider giving to POV today -- survivors need you now more than ever to help fund the life-saving services that we provide to them free of charge. And, if you become a sustainer, your monthly gift could mean that a survivor doesn't have to go through the aftermath of abuse alone or stay in an abusive relationship.
** This is a crisis that will become a tragedy.
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Take action now.
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Patti Giggans,
Executive Director/CEO of POV
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