KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Lake Family Resource Center, which earlier this year announced its new initiative to offer services and support to victims of human trafficking, has now received a three-year grant of $550,000 to support its efforts.
The funding comes from Office for Victims of Crime, or OVC, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice.
The OVC, created in 1988, has a mission of providing and promoting justice for crime victims.
Lake Family Resource Center Victim Services Program Director Sheri Young said human trafficking is a rapidly emerging industry and an expanding problem in Lake County.
“Receiving this grant allows additional programmatic development, focus, staffing and services to be provided enhancing our current ability,” she said.
Beginning Jan. 1, Lake Family Resource Center will use the funds for direct services to support victims of human trafficking.
The goal of the organization’s human trafficking program is to enhance the quality and quantity of services available to victims of human trafficking, as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
This program supports direct services to victims of sex trafficking and labor trafficking, as well as efforts to increase community capacity to respond to human trafficking over a three-year project period through development of interagency partnerships, professional training, and public awareness activities.
Young said the grant reflect’s Lake Family Resource Center’s goal of safe, sustainable, healthy families and strengthening Lake County one family at a time.
She said the organization’s human trafficking program will expand to meet the needs of Lake County.
Lake Family Resource Center, founded in 1995, has placed a focus on providing quality victim services, including family and community violence prevention and intervention, child and youth development, parenting education, personal development, and health and wellness.
“LakeFRC is Lake County’s longest existing nonprofit organization that provides victim services, with many years of successfully managing multiple grant funding sources. We are pleased to have received this new funding and find it to be an incredible asset for Lake County. This is a subject that deserves dedicated attention and LakeFRC is proud to take it on,” said Executive Director Lisa Morrow.
Young said combatting human trafficking with intervention, prevention and zero tolerance takes a coordinated effort from all corners of the community – individuals, advocates, community groups, law enforcement, faith-based organizations and schools.
For more information, call 707-279-9563 and ask for Sheri Young.
Lake Family Resource Center receives three-year grant for human trafficking services
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