{"id":302388,"date":"2026-10-08T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302388\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:02:12","slug":"senator-lisa-boscola-announces-more-than-1-6-million-for-crime-victims-programs-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302388\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Lisa Boscola announces more than $1.6 million for crime victims\u2019 programs \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published October 08. 2026 08:08AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">State Sen. Lisa Boscola, D-18th, announced recently that four Lehigh Valley nonprofit organizations have been awarded funding totaling $1,610,259 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) for crime victims\u2019 services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cVictims of violent crimes deserve services both inside and outside the courtroom that allow them to seek justice and allow them to recover, both physically and emotionally, from the trauma brought upon them,\u201d Boscola said in a press release.  \u201cThese grant funds will provide organizations with proven crime victim service programs to meet their needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Funding awarded for crime victim programs serving Northampton County include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022\tCrime Victims Council of Lehigh Valley, Inc. &#8211; Victim Services in Lehigh and Northampton counties, $685,425<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022\tTurning Point of the Lehigh Valley &#8211; Domestic Violence Services Lehigh and Northampton counties, $605,292<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022\tValley Youth House Committee &#8211; Mobile Trauma Focused Services 2025-2027, $192,660<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022\tNorth Penn Legal Services \u2013 NPLS Emergency Legal Services Project, $126,882<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The funds awarded by PCCD are via the Federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 08. 2026 08:08AM State Sen. Lisa Boscola, D-18th, announced recently that four Lehigh Valley nonprofit organizations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-302388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}