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Local domestic violence providers warn committee budget cuts would curtail services
Summary
Shelters and community-based domestic violence programs told the Budget & Finance Committee that state and local cuts could close community offices, eliminate liaisons to CPS and case managers, and remove emergency client funds; providers estimated roughly $1.5 million in combined state and local cuts affecting the sector.
Representatives from the Riley Center, Woman Inc. and the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium told the committee that proposed state and local reductions would substantially reduce their ability to serve survivors of domestic violence.
Maria Chavez of the Riley Center said the community office would close under the proposed cuts, eliminating domestic violence liaisons who…
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