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U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright, D-Moosic, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that $600,000 in federal funds have been awarded to the Women’s Resource Center in Scranton from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office on Violence Against Women.

The DOJ awarded the federal funding under the Transitional Housing Assistance Grant for Victims of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking Program. The Women’s Resource Center plans to use the award to provide emergency housing for individuals and their children and/or dependents fleeing domestic, dating, sexual violence, stalking or human trafficking.

“Leaving an abusive situation takes incredible courage, and I am so glad that Northeastern Pennsylvanians faced with that decision have a safe place to land,” said Cartwright, who, as chairman of the House Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) Subcommittee, successfully fought to expand overall funding for Violence Against Women programs in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, and again as Ranking Member of CJS in fiscal year 2024.