With Federal Funding in Doubt, Maine’s Domestic Violence Resource Centers Freeze Hiring

Maine’s domestic violence resource centers freeze hiring with federal funding in doubt

Resource centers around the state have frozen hiring and are operating understaffed in anticipation of funding shortfalls

Brown extends staff hiring freeze, announces plans for more drastic cost-cutting measures

Early Monday morning, the University announced plans to extend its staff hiring freeze "at least through the end of the summer," as it faces continued financial headwinds from the Trump administration's threats to higher education.Already facing a $46 million budget deficit prior to President Trump taking office, the University, in December, announced plans to reduce faculty and staff growth, reduce PhD admissions and limit operating expenses.Si…

With federal funding in doubt, Maine’s domestic violence resource centers freeze hiring

Resource centers around the state have frozen hiring and are operating understaffed in anticipation of funding shortfalls.

With federal funding in doubt_ Maine’s domestic violence resource centers freeze hiring

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Maine’s domestic violence resource centers freeze hiring

Regina Rooney, communications director for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, in 2021. Photo by Fred J. Field.Last year, when Syd Moore began work helping survivors of domestic violence find housing, they managed about eight cases. Now, Moore works with two dozen cases, with another five expected soon. Moore used to be one of two housing navigators employed by Safe Voices, a resource center for survivors of domestic violence serving O…

RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence Seeks Injunction Against Trump

New Requirements Threaten Support for Victims of Violence Attorneys for the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV) and a nationwide group of 16 other state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions have asked a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction against a host of unlawful grant restrictions issued by the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). The arguments for the injunction were lai…