FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 1995
Contact: Michael Kharfen (202) 401-9215
HHS HELPS COMMUNITIES PREVENT FAMILY VIOLENCE
Following President Clinton's kick-off of National Domestic Violence
Awareness Month, HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced the
award of over $700,000 in grants to help communities prevent family
violence through public awareness, outreach, and collaboration.
"Domestic violence fills our emergency
rooms with injured and our shelters with families," Secretary Shalala
said. "These grants will help provide the lifeline to safety for
domestic violence victims and their children."
Funded by HHS' Administration for Children
and Families under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act,
the grantees will create a heightened public awareness of domestic violence,
establish partnerships with churches, universities and other organizations
and develop and conduct extensive community outreach. In 16 states
across the country, grantees will provide information on domestic violence
and encourage participation of organizations and individuals in communities
in strategies to prevent violence and provide support to victims.
"Victims of domestic violence need
information about the options available to them to stay safe from their
batterers and to keep their children free from the violence," said
Mary Jo Bane, HHS assistant secretary for children and families. "Each
of us has a role to play in our communities to provide support and assistance
to restore the right of victims to live free from fear in the one place
where they should feel safe and secure -- in their own homes."
"The Clinton Administration has
made an unprecedented commitment to confronting domestic violence,"
Shalala said. "The President has consistently sought to bring this
problem out of the closet. The Administration has stood by the Violence
Against Women Provisions of the Crime Bill which have come under attack
in the Republican Congress. He has directed all federal agencies to
educate their employees about domestic violence. And the Clinton Administration
is bringing together domestic violence advocates and members of the
business community to form partnerships aimed at prevention."
The 18 grantees are:
o Division of Native Americans, People
Legal Services, Inc.,
Window Rock, Ariz., $35,000.
o March of Dimes, Inc., San Francisco, Calif., $35,000.
o University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.,
$40,000.
o Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline,
Honolulu, Hawaii, $35,000.
o Kansas Childrens Service League, Wichita, Kan., $35,000.
o Southern University, Baton Rouge, La., $40,000.
o Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups,
Boston, Mass., $50,000.
o Revere Office of Community Action, Chelsea, Mass.,
$35,000.
o Maine Department of Human Services, Augusta, Maine,
$50,000.
o Legal Services of Eastern Michigan, Flint, Mich., $35,000.
o Artemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence,
Dayton, Ohio, $50,000.
o Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County, Inc., Media,
Pa., $47,154.
o Women Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pa., $50,000.
o Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Warwick,
R.I., $35,000.
o South Dakota State University, Brookings, S.D., $33,225
o Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tenn., $40,000.
o The Family Place, Dallas, Texas, $49,375.
o Hampton University, Hampton, Va., $39,939.
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