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Women and Children's Horizons seeks higher CDBG support for legal advocacy, asks $18,000 for parking lot repairs
Summary
Women and Children's Horizons asked the CDBG advisory committee to increase its legal-advocacy grant to $24,900 and to fund an $18,000 repaving of a 2,400-square-foot parking lot serving nonresidential services. Executive Director Sue Sipple said federal VOCA funding cuts and other lost grants forced staff reductions and increased caseloads.
Women and Children's Horizons asked the Kenosha Community Development Block Grant advisory committee to increase funding for its legal-advocacy services and to repave a small parking lot serving nonresidential client services.
"My name is Sue Sipple, and I'm the executive director at Women and Children's Horizons," Sipple said, describing a program that helps domestic-violence and sexual-assault victims navigate the criminal-justice and civil-court systems. She said about 71% of the people served annually receive legal advocacy and that roughly 600 victims are helped in a…
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