Maryland State Archives
GOCCP Awards $311,111 For Local Response to Child Abuse Cases
Funds Support the Institutional and Individual Responses to Abused and Neglected Children
The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention today announced it was awarding a total of $311,772 to 13 Maryland agencies under the Child Justice Act. The funds have gone to both non-profit social service organizations and to government agencies.
The Children's Justice Act (CJA) is a federally funded program that helps States develop, establish, and operate programs to improve the investigation and prosecution of child abuse and neglect cases, and to improve the handling of fatalities where child abuse or neglect is suspected. The goal is to protect vulnerable children while successfully developing information to prosecute suspected abusers. This is done primarily training of professionals and volunteers who respond to suspected child abuse to interview children who have been victimized.
The funds support efforts to investigate and prosecute fatalities that may be linked to child abuse or neglect, or cases of sexual child abuse and neglect. Recipients may also use grant funds for the investigation of cases involving children with disabilities or serious health-related problems who are suspected victims of child abuse and neglect.
These funds are in addition to $60,531.00 spent this year on ChildFirst/FindingWords Maryland. That is an innovative and intensive five-day course specifically designed for law enforcement officers, prosecutors and child abuse professionals to conduct skillful and legally sufficient forensic interviews of child sexual abuse victims.
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EDITORS: A list of the CJA award winners and the amount of their grants is attached.
|CHILDREN’S JUSTICE ACT GRANTS |
|APPLICANTNAME |PROJECT TITLE |COUNTY |AWARD |
|Community Advocates for Family & Youth |Youth Court Education Program (YCEP) |Prince George's |$39,564 |
|Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) - Prince |CASA Volunteer Training and Support |Prince George's |10,520 |
|George's County, Inc. | | | |
|Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program of |"Enhancing Skills of CASA and Child Counsel Program" |Baltimore City |27,463 |
|Baltimore, Inc. | | | |
|Harford County Sheriff's Office |CJAC: Trauma Recognition and Coordination III |Harford |47,135 |
|Cricket Center, Inc., The |Child Advocacy Center Program Manager |Worcester |42,000 |
|Center for Children, Inc. |Enhancing CASA of Southern Maryland |Charles |19,500 |
|Howard County, Maryland |Specialized Training for Multidisciplinary Teams and First |Howard |6,100 |
| |Responders-CAC Training | | |
|Carroll County Board of County Commissioners |Carroll County Advocacy and Investigation Center Training |Carroll |4,416 |
| |Enhancement | | |
|Talbot County Department of Social Services |Mid Shore Medical Professional Specialized Training and |Talbot |2,266 |
| |Consultation Opportunities | | |
|University of Maryland, Baltimore - ORD |CHAMP Child Maltreatment Training of Law Enforcement Program |Baltimore City |39,980 |
|Baltimore Child Abuse Center, Inc. |Project CARD (Child Abuse Response Directive) |Baltimore City |11,500 |
|The Family Tree |Children's Justice Act Grant (CJAC) 2011 |Baltimore City |30,000 |
|Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center, Inc. |Child Victim's Criminal Justice Training |Prince George's |31,328 |
| | |TOTAL |$311,772 |
Media contact:
Bill Toohey
Offc: 410-821-2851
Cell: 443-279-8661
btoohey@goccp.state.md.us
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Contact: Bill Toohey
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btoohey@goccp.state.md.us
Martin O’Malley
Governor
Anthony Brown
Lt. Governor
Kristen Mahoney
Executive Director
For Immediate Release:
July 19, 2011
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