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Budget Fuss: How does the state budget affect domestic violence funding?
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Budget Fuss: How does the state budget affect domestic violence funding?
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| Neal Santos |
| Eyevette Wilson is a crisis intervention counselor at Women Against Abuse. |
You already know that the new state budget means lots of cash for new prisons, $5.5 million in library cuts and $1.1 million in child care cuts. But what about everything else? In our new feature Budget Fuss, we'll be looking at lesser-reported casualties (and gains — all two of them) in the state budget.
At first, it appears as though domestic violence funding and related services have only been cut here and there, in small amounts: From the 2009/10 to 2010/11 fiscal year, the state's domestic violence funding dropped from $12,487,000 to $12,385,000 ($102,000 cut); rape crisis funding dropped from$7,146,000 to $7,087,000 ($59,000 cut); and legal services funding dropped from $3,064,000 to $3,039,000 ($25,000 cut).
But then you look at the line item for the Human Services Development Fund (HSDF), which funds much of Women Against Abuse Legal Center's budget. Women Against Abuse (WAA) is a Philly nonprofit that provides services to domestic violence victims, including a legal center that gives victims court advocates for educational and emotional guidance. The state money for HSDF dropped from $29,346,000 to $23,478,000 — that's a $5.9 million cut.
(It's worth noting that the city usually gets $6 million each year from HSDF; these funds are then directed to various city departments, which are then re-directed to some nonprofits like WAA. We'll be looking into how the HSDF cuts affect other city departments and nonprofits in the upcoming weeks.)
"We are very concerned about how the cuts to HSDF will affect our Legal Center," says Katie Young-Wildes, WAA's associate director of development. "The HSDF funds $250,000 for the Women Against Abuse Legal Center, which helps thousands of women, men and children break free from abuse each year."
With the Legal Center's total budget at $1.1 million, HSDF money accounts for nearly a quarter of that.
Young-Wildes says WAA is awaiting to hear from the city how much the nonprofit will now get from HSDF, in light of the cuts.
To better understand what WAA and its Legal Center does, you can read an article I wrote about the nonprofit earlier this year. It's also worth noting that, though the cuts in domestic violence funding, rape crisis and legal services didn't drop by too much this time around, they come on top of $296,268 in city budget cuts to WAA last year, and a 4.7 percent decrease in state funding five years ago.
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