HOUSTON – Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and home unit advocates volition denote a $4.7 cardinal Domestic Violence Assistance Fund to assistance victims.
The money volition beryllium utilized for efforts to combat the county’s rising home unit reports that see homicides.
A quality league is scheduled to statesman astatine 10 a.m. KPRC 2 volition transportation a livestream of the event.
The announcement comes during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which raises consciousness for home unit victims and survivors. Speakers besides volition sermon weapon violence. According to a quality release, the Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council (HCDVCC) volition administer programme funds provided by Harris County and beryllium liable for exertion intake, reappraisal and approval. HCDVCC provides method assistance and capacity-building enactment for smaller recipient organizations.
The program, which reportedly uses American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, volition enactment astir 3,800 households and 6,650 individuals, Ellis said. It provides flexible fiscal assistance to home unit survivors via grants to nonprofit, community-based organizations that service survivors.
Reports of home unit accrued locally, nationally, and globally during the COVID-19 pandemic, the quality merchandise said. In Texas, 204 radical were reportedly killed by intimate partners successful 2021 and 46 (22%) were successful Harris County.
“Family unit affects everyone, but women of colour are astir apt to beryllium harmed,” Commissioner Ellis said. “While 1 successful 3 achromatic women study having experienced home unit during the pandemic, the rates of maltreatment were 50% and higher for those marginalized by race, ethnicity, intersexual orientation, sex identity, citizenship status, and cognitive carnal ability.”
In Texas, 204 radical were reportedly killed by intimate partners successful 2021. Of that number, stats uncover 46, oregon 22% of those victims, were successful Harris County. Domestic violence-related homicides passim Texas accrued by 23% successful 2020.
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