(COLUMBUS, Ohio)— Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine this morning will announce the recipients of more than $2 million in Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grants that will be used to launch crisis intervention programs for hospitalized victims of traumatic violent crime.
The grants will be awarded to five victim service providers that will partner with five hospitals in the state.
The funds are being awarded as part of the “Ohio Attorney General’s Expanding Services and Empowering Victims Initiative” which was formed in 2015 to determine how VOCA funds could best be spent to serve crime victims in Ohio.
WHO:
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine
Dr. Sheldon Retchin, CEO, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Ken Yeager, PhD, LISW, STAR Program Clinical Director, OSU Wexner Medical Center
Lenore Anderson, President, Alliance for Safety and Justice
Heather Renee Andrews, Violent Crime Survivor
WHAT:
Announcement of hospital crisis intervention programs
WHERE:
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
460 W. 10th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio
WHEN:
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
10:00 a.m.
NOTE: Media representatives are asked to call the Medical Center’s Media Relations Department at 614-293-3737 for arrangements to cover this event. Parking will be available in the loop outside The James Cancer Hospital.