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Albany County accepts two grants for Crime Victims & Violence Center to support community safety and prevention education
Summary
Albany County amended its Crime Victims & Violence Center budget to allocate a $30,950 Department of Health grant for a community safety project and accepted a $12,888 OCFS supplemental grant for staff salaries and prevention education.
The Albany County Legislature approved two budget actions for the County’s Crime Victims & Violence Center (CVVC).
Director Amanda Wingle asked the Legislature to allocate $30,950 of previously received Department of Health grant funding to a fees-for-services line to support a community safety project. Wingle said the funds will pay community partners for needs assessments and surveys and will provide data-analysis training for staff working on the project. The money has already been received by the county; the request was to allocate it within the CVVC budget.
Separately, Wingle said the center was awarded a $12,888 grant from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services that is part of a supplemental program established during the COVID-19 period. The CVVC requested permission to accept the OCFS award and to apply it to staff salaries that are already budgeted and to prevention education initiatives.
Legislators asked which community organizations would be contracted; Wingle said she did not have specific names on the record but offered to provide them after the meeting. Both requests were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote; the transcript does not include a roll-call tally.
The CVVC said both grants are intended to support community outreach, assessment and prevention education work already planned by the center.
