Community Action Southwest to Receive State Child Abuse Prevention Grant
The grant totals $120,000.
Community Action Southwest has been awarded a $120,000 state grant to help enhance child abuse and neglect prevention programs and outreach efforts in Greene and Washington county communities—including Canonsburg, Cecil and North Strabane. State Reps. Brandon Neuman, Jesse White and Peter J. Daley II, and state Sen. Tim Solobay, announced the grant Tuesday. The legislators said the grant was awarded through Pennsylvania’s Children’s Trust Fund, which is administered by the state Department of Public Welfare’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning. “The impacts of child abuse and neglect can cost families, schools, service providers and others tens of thousands of dollars both immediately and later on in life,” said Neuman, D-North…
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