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Federal Funding Cut Jeopardizes Domestic Violence Shelters In Y-K Delta

   Federal funding for domestic violence and women’s shelters from the Victims of Crimes Act, or VOCA, has been decreasing in recent years. The Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, or CDVSA, is an organization within the Alaska Department of Public Safety that directs federal funding to victim services programs within the state.  In a letter sent on  April 1, CDVSA Executive Director Diane Casto wrote that VOCA funding would decrease by 34.6% from the previous year. This would affect shelters like Tundra Women’s Coalition and Emmonak Women’s Shelter in Fiscal Year 2022, which begins in July.  “Everyone was like ‘what is everybody going to do? What are the shelter programs going to do?’ It was devastating news,” said JoAnn Horn, director of Emmonak Women’s Shelter.

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