{"id":150944,"date":"2026-09-09T21:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=150944"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:41:27","slug":"senator-lisa-boscola-announces-more-than-1-6-million-for-crime-victims-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=150944","title":{"rendered":"Senator Lisa Boscola Announces More Than $1.6 Million for Crime Victims\u2019 Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(September 9, 2026- Bethlehem) &#8211; <\/strong>Senator Lisa Boscola announced today that four Lehigh Valley nonprofit organizations have been awarded funding totaling $1,610,259 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) for crime victims\u2019 services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictims of violent crimes deserve services both inside and outside the courtroom that allow them to seek justice and allow them to recover, both physically and emotionally, from the trauma brought upon them,\u201d Senator Boscola stated.\u00a0 \u201cThese grant funds will provide organizations with proven crime victim service programs to meet their needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funding awarded for crime victim programs serving Northampton County include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crime Victims Council of Lehigh Valley, Inc. &#8211; Victim Services in Lehigh and Northampton Counties, $685,425<\/li>\n<li>Turning Point of the Lehigh Valley &#8211; Domestic Violence Services Lehigh and Northampton Counties, $605,292<\/li>\n<li>Valley Youth House Committee &#8211; Mobile Trauma Focused Services 2025-2027, $192,660<\/li>\n<li>North Penn Legal Services \u2013 NPLS Emergency Legal Services Project, $126,882<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The funds awarded today by PCCD are via the Federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Funds.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nKurt Derr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(September 9, 2026- Bethlehem) &#8211; Senator Lisa Boscola announced today that four Lehigh Valley nonprofit organizations have been awarded funding totaling $1,610,259 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) for crime victims\u2019 services. \u201cVictims of violent crimes deserve services both inside and outside the courtroom that allow them to seek justice and allow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=150944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senator Lisa Boscola Announces More Than $1.6 Million for Crime Victims\u2019 Programs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\r\n\r\n{excerpt}\r\n\r\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lisa-Boscola.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150947,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150944\/revisions\/150947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}