Stimulus $ to Help Victims of Childhood Abuse: Thankful Thursday
$40K in federal stimulus funds to help victims of childhood abuse in Reno area. Free therapy from UNR Crime Treatment Center can expand thanks to this money.
Victims of childhood abuse often have to go it alone as mental health care is barely covered by insurance plans. The university’s Victims of Crime Treatment Center can now expand their free services to childhood physical abuse victims. The center has offering free assistance to sexual assult and sexual abuse victims for over 14 years.
Most of us have seen new construction and road projects being funded with stimulus dollars but to have funds be directed to individual citizens is wonderful.
The Reno-Gazette Journal reports that these funds are “strickly to help victims of physical abuse that happened to them when they were childredn.” No age limit has been set; however, more recent victims will be given priority.
This service is free for all Nevada residents. For more information, contact, the University of Nevada – Reno at 775-682-8680 or http://sexualassaulthelp.info.
A special thanks to the legislators who cared enough to include this in one of those huge “who-knows-what-happening” bills.
