A couple of Manhattan organizations are receiving more than $84,000 in grants for crime victims.
According to a release from Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office, grants were awarded to The Crisis Center, Inc. totaling $48,034. The grant will help recruit, train and supervise volunteers to assist professionals providing round-the clock crisis intervention services for sexual and domestic violence victims.
Sunflower CASA Project Inc. received three grants. One of them totals $20,000 to provide supervised visitation and monitored exchange services to children and their non-residential parents. A second grant totals $11,156 to support the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program. A third grant totals $5,400 for operating expenditures for children’s advocacy centers.
The grants were made from the Protection from Abuse Fund, the State Child Exchange and Visitation Centers Fund, the State Crime Victims’ Assistance Fund for Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Children’s Advocacy Centers Fund.
