Where’d the Penn State fine money go? 2015
Where’d the money go?
In 2015, the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency handed out 44 grants, totaling $3.3 million, from the Penn State fine.
Fourteen of those grants, totaling $1.24 million went to Children’s Advocacy Centers.
The Children’s Advocacy Center in Lawrence County got $100,000
The CAC in Jefferson County got $95,583
The CAC in McKean County got $63,804.
Clearfield County got $93,039 for a multi-disciplinary team to work toward setting up a CAC
Blair County got $65,257 to help launch a CAC, expected to open this summer.
The CAC in Centre County got $100,000
The CAC in Franklin County got $99,576.
The CAC in York County got $99,325
The CAC in Dauphin County got $100,000
The CAC in Northumberland County got $100,000
The CAC in Luzerne County got $100,000
The CAC in Lancaster County got $80,470
The CAC in Delaware County got $45,494
One of the CACs in Philadelphia got $100,000
Eleven grants, totaling $813,000 went to other organizations serving victims of sexual assault
Women’s Center of Beaver County got $61,324 to expand programs to help child victims of sexual assault
Victim Outreach Intervention Center, Inc. in Butler County got $58,086 for a program helping adult survivors of child sex crimes.
Center for Victims and UPMC Children’s Hospital Children’s Advocacy Center in Allegheny County got $99,749 to share a counselor advocate and a trauma therapist to work with child sex victims and their families.
Community Resources of Fayette County, Inc. got $67,768 to provide therapy to child sex victims.
Women In Need in Franklin County got $60,000 to provide follow-up services to victims and their families who’ve visited the CAC in that county.
Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon County got $74,299 for therapy for child sex crime victims in Lebanon and Schuylkill counties.
Berks County Women In Crisis got $79,186 for therapy for victims of sexual assault.
The Crime Victims’ Center of Chester County Inc. got $45,000 for two drop-in centers to provide counseling to child sex crime victims.
The Support Center For Child Advocate in Philadelphia got $96,137 for social workers to help child sex crime victims.
The Network of Victim Assistance in Bucks County got $74,509 to offer in-home counseling services to children who’ve been sexually-assaulted.
The Valley Youth House Committee in Lehigh County got $97,776 to provide therapy to victims of child sex crimes.
Another 14 grants worth $1 million went to other efforts intended to help victims of child sex crimes
The Pennsylvania State Chapter of Children’s Advocacy Centers and Multidisciplinary Teams, based in Erie County, got $100,000 for training and other services working with the CACs in the state.
The Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County got $100,000 to hire a therapist to work with individuals who suffer from trauma-related symptoms as a result of experiencing child sexual abuse.
Victim Outreach Intervention Center, Inc. in Butler County got $46,501 for therapy for children and adult survivors of sex abuse. The program was intended to pay special focus to adult male survivors of child sex abuse.
CASA of Westmoreland, Inc. got $20,623 to recruit and train advocates to work with victims of child sex abuse.
Children’s Resource Center in Dauphin County got $100,000 to work with Penn State Hershey Medical Center provide tele-health services for victims of child sex crimes in rural communities.
Turning Point Women’s Counseling and Advocacy Center in York County got $82,712 to provide counseling to 75 women and teen-aged survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Leg Up Farm, York County, got $52,755 to create a curriculum to offer equine-therapy for survivors of child sex abuse that could be used at equine centers across the state.
CASA of Lancaster County got $29,000 to recruit and train advocates to work with victims of child sex crimes.
PathWays PA, in Delaware County, got $100,000 for two therapists to work with victims of child sex crimes.
The Support Center For Child Advocate got $76,316 to hire a child advocate attorney to help victims of child sex crimes in Philadelphia.
The Joseph J Peters Institute in Philadelphia got $99,556 to hire a therapist to visit victims of child sex crimes living in public housing in the city.
The Victim Services Center of Montgomery County, Inc. got $100,000 to provide therapy tailored to serve those in minority and immigrant populations.
Diakon Child, Family & Community Ministries in Lehigh County got $99,804 to provide therapy to adult male survivors of child sex crimes.
The Women’s Resource Center in Lackawanna County got $63,437 to provide therapy targeting teens who’ve survived sexual abuse.
Five grants, totaling $212,000 went to training programs
Victims Services Inc. in Cambria County got $48,814 to train and certify 10 therapists in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy for victims of child sex crimes.
Cen-Clear Child Services, Inc. in Clearfield County got $22,505 to train therapists to work with child sex crime survivors.
Lehigh Valley Hospital in Lehigh County got $30,802 to train health care providers in how to care for survivors of child sex crimes.
Creative Health Services Inc. in Montgomery County got $35,883 for Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Children’s Crisis Center in Philadelphia got $74,900 to develop and expand the facility’s use of Child-Parent Psychotherapy for young children who’ve been victims of sex crimes.