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Family Justice Center director warns committee VOCA cuts and grant instability threaten victim services statewide
Summary
Jamie Willis, director of Family Justice Center operations for Greene County, told the Mental Health Committee that reductions in federal Victims of Crime Act funding and unstable grant streams are forcing providers to reduce services or close.
Jamie Willis, director of Family Justice Center operations for Greene County, told the Mental Health Committee that most local domestic-violence programs rely on a patchwork of federal, state and private grants and that recent reductions in federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funding threaten operations.
Willis said that VOCA funding has historically supported much of the direct service infrastructure for domestic violence, sexual assault and child-abuse programs. She told the committee that "each state saw a 40% decrease in funding," and that the 2024 fiscal-year cut of roughly $630 million nationally forced programs to triage or close.
Why it matters: Willis said local…
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