STATE RESTORES SHELTER FUNDING.Byline: Helen Gao Staff Writer GLENDALE - Under pressure from legislators and social service agencies, the state has restored funding for 10 domestic violence shelters, including one in Glendale, officials said Tuesday. Tim Herrera, spokesman for the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, said the agency has decided to reallocate Verb 1. reallocate - allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" reapportion allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of $4 million from a DNA analysis DNA analysis Any technique used to analyze genes and DNA. See Chromosome walking, DNA fingerprinting, Footprinting, In situ hybridization, Jeffries' probe, Jumping libraries, PCR, RFLP analysis, Southern blot hybridization. program to fund domestic violence shelters. The money will sustain the shelters until 2004, when the next grant cycle begins. Wayne Page, executive director of the Glendale YWCA YWCA abbr. Young Women's Christian Association YWCA n abbr (= Young Women's Christian Association) → Asociación f de Jóvenes Cristianas YWCA , which provides various programs for domestic violence victims, said she had been praying that the money would come through. ``I am thankful thank·ful adj. 1. Aware and appreciative of a benefit; grateful. 2. Expressive of gratitude: a thankful smile. ,'' she said. ``That just means I can serve more women and continue to do the good works the YWCA has done for the community.'' Page said a large portion of the funding for the YWCA's 29-year-old domestic violence project - the only one of its kind in Glendale - comes from the state. The YWCA received $207,000 this fiscal year to operate its shelter, transitional housing, outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. and 24-hour hotline services. Without the state funding, the group would have had to scramble To encode (encrypt) data in order to make it indecipherable without having a secret key to "unlock" it. The term came from the early days of cryptography which camouflaged analog transmissions with secret frequency patterns. to find outside sources to pay for the programs. Last fall, the YWCA, Pasadena's Haven House and other domestic violence shelters lost their funding after the state adopted a new set of grant application rules that some said are arbitrary and unfair. ``We lost the funding supposedly on the basis of not double-spacing (our application),'' Page said. ``It had nothing to do with our service.'' The rules are now being revised so that shelters that lost funding would be eligible for future grants. Legislation to restore the funding was initiated by state Sen. Jack Scott, D-Pasadena. |
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