{"id":334302,"date":"2026-08-31T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334302\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:46:08","slug":"hochul-announces-36m-in-funding-for-victim-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334302\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul announces $36M in funding for victim services"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York victim services advocates are claiming victory after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an additional $36 million in funding for victim services organizations statewide including rape crisis, domestic violence and child advocacy centers.<\/p>\n

The announcement follows advocates speaking up for weeks about not receiving enough funding to operate their programs for their upcoming year.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrograms are still receiving revised notices and the awards remain tentative,\u201d said Emily Miles, executive director of The Alliance Against Sexual Violence<\/a>. \u201cWe need to fully understand the impact of this additional funding in every region and in every category of service and work to ensure that all programs have what they need to provide care for all survivors across New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement comes ahead of the deadline for the current funding for programs running out, which advocates tell Spectrum News 1 is on Sept. 30 before the new funding would start on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

That funding is $162.5 million this year, which Hochul said is \u201cthe largest single-year investment in victim services in New York State history.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a growing number of providers, some long established organizations came up short in the award process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some advocates told Spectrum News 1\u00a0their programs were facing anywhere from a 30% to 70% reduction in funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom this last round of procurement, our organization specifically was cut over $750,000,\u201d said Christine Battisti, executive director of the Crime Victims Assistance Center in Broome County.<\/p>\n

The award process is through the state\u2019s Office of Victim Services which said by state law it is required to maintain a \u201ccompetitive procurement process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing that we still don\u2019t know specifically what the entire cut was throughout the state of New York because they can\u2019t provide it right now,\u201d said Republican state Sen. Rob Rolison. \u201cSo, we don\u2019t know what the measurement is.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a release from the governor\u2019s office, the breakdown of the additional $36 million in funding is $11.7 million each to licensed domestic violence providers and certified rape crisis centers, and child advocacy centers will receive $4.8 million more in grant funding.<\/p>\n

While advocates and lawmakers say they\u2019re grateful the governor is adding this additional funding, they\u2019re calling for some changes to the funding process, so programs have more stability with planning moving forward when new funding cycles are set to begin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must also use the next two years to build a more stable and sustainable approach to funding victim services,\u201d said Miles. \u201cNew York cannot allow essential programs to move from crisis to crisis or force providers to plan for layoffs every time a new funding cycle begins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York victim services advocates are claiming victory after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an additional $36 million in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,5304,112,108,63,87,200],"class_list":["post-334302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-nicole-neuman","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}