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Advocates urge sustained prevention funding, improved implementation of Healthy Youth Act and reconsideration of statute timelines
Summary
At a Select Committee hearing, advocates and legislators pressed for stable funding for prevention, fuller implementation of the California Healthy Youth Act in schools, and raised concerns about statute of limitations and evidentiary timelines for abuse cases.
During an informational hearing of the California State Assembly Select Committee on Domestic Violence, presenters urged lawmakers to address funding, implementation and legal barriers that limit prevention and survivors’ access to services.
Taylor Stonemill told the committee that short‑term grants leave gaps in prevention work: “prevention funding can't just be something we fund for 2 years and then we stop,” she said, arguing that new cohorts of students arrive each year and require continuous…
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