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\u201cThe FY26 budget passed earlier this week by the State Legislature includes a nearly $7 million cut to funding that supports vitial services for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, as well as efforts to prevent future violence. As the statewide coalition against sexual assault and domestic violence, we are deeply distressed by this cut, which will imperil critical, often life-saving, support for survivors, force service providers into impossible decisions, and make all of our communities less safe.<\/p>\n
The funding level in the Legislature\u2019s final budget \u2013 lower than the Governor\u2019s FY26 recommendation, as well as the budget bills passed independently by the House and Senate \u2013 will reduce the availability of critical services for survivors \u2013 including rape crisis center services, counseling and therapy, intimate partner abuse education, prevention programming, crisis intervention, housing and shelter support, and more.<\/p>\n
We understand the need to reach agreement on a fiscally responsible state budget but \u2013 especially in a moment when our communities are facing unprecedented attacks at the federal level \u2013 it is more important than ever that we do everything we can to protect and support survivors. Moving forward, it is incumbent on our state elected officials to identify opportunities \u2013 including in any supplemental budget \u2013 to, at the very least, restore this essential funding and provide the resources necessary to help survivors find safety and healing and prevent future violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
July 2, 2025 Good Morning, Jane Doe Inc., The Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, today released the following statement in response to the State Legislature’s final FY26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","category-statements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39280,"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39279\/revisions\/39280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janedoe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}