TOPEKA – Three Salina organizations have been awarded more than $75,000 in grants to provide services for victims of crime, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced today.

The grants were awarded to support the following programs:

• Ashby House: $7,700 to provide services to Saline, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, and Ottawa Counties, where supervised child visitation and/or exchanges are needed or ordered by the courts.
• Child Advocacy & Parenting Services, Inc.: $21,185 to increase awareness and access to trauma informed advocacy. Victims and their non-offending caregivers will be supported according to their individual needs, including referrals to therapists, availability of a Spanish-speaking family advocate, 24/7 on-call advocates, and the lending library.
• Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas: $46,925 to provide 24-hour crisis response services in residential and non-residential settings.

The awards were made from the Protection from Abuse Fund, State Child Exchange and Visitation Centers Fund and State Crime Victims’ Assistance Fund. The Protection from Abuse Fund is funded by State General Fund appropriations, marriage license fees, county court costs and municipal court assessments. The State Child Exchange and Visitation Centers is funded through marriage license fees and State General Fund appropriations. The State Crime Victims’ Assistance Fund is funded though the remittance of applicable fines, penalties and forfeitures from clerks of the district courts.

This year, the attorney general’s office awarded nearly $2.2 million in grants to local and state crime victim assistance organizations. More information on the grant programs and the full list of award recipients is available on the attorney general’s website at www.ag.ks.gov.