INDIANAPOLIS – Safe Passage, a local non-profit that provides domestic violence victim services, may be eligible for more money from the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI).
The state agency announced an additional $740,426 for the 43 domestic violence shelters currently receiving funding from ICJI.
The dollars will be added to the Domestic Violence Treatment and Prevention (DVPT) Fund – which is used to provide immediate assistance and short-term support to victims of domestic violence.
“At Governor Pence’s direction, applications for these funds will be expedited so they can be made available to shelters as soon as possible,” said Mary L. Allen, ICJI’s executive director.
“The total funding for domestic violence programs exceeds $4.2 million this year – which is $1.5 million more than in 2013.”
The domestic violence programs will submit their budgets and plans on how the money will be spent to the DVPT Council. The council will review the information and make recommendations to ICJI staff, that will in turn, make recommendations to the Victim Services Subcommittee, a subgroup of the ICJI Board of Trustees.
