JCADA Awarded $204,202 Grant to Assist Victims of Domestic Abuse in Maryland

The Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse (JCADA) was recently awarded a two-year $204,202 Victims of Crime Assistance (VOCA) grant from the State of Maryland’s Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention. Funding from this federal grant will allow JCADA to expand its clinical services by hiring two additional full-time clinicians as well as create opportunities for the JCADA clinical staff to attend formal and informal continuing education and trainings every month.

According to Arielle Nathan Teitelbaum, President of JCADA’s Board of Directors, “JCADA has offered the community lifesaving services since our inception, but the need for our services continues to grow. Our presence is increasingly necessary as a result of the expansion of JCADA’s outreach and prevention work.”

Elissa Malter Schwartz, JCADA’s Executive Director shared, “We are honored to partner with the State of Maryland to better assist those suffering from the effects of domestic abuse. This opportunity came at an important time in helping to expand JCADA’s capacity to serve victims of abuse in our community.”

For more than 16 years, JCADA has been a crucial member of the domestic violence services community in Maryland. Through its free lifesaving counseling services, JCADA has empowered hundreds of survivors to obtain safer living environments for themselves and their children. JCADA tailors its services to address the cultural and religious barriers that are common to Jewish and other religious and ethnic minorities. JCADA has become a pillar in the community for survivors of domestic violence of all ability, background, faith, race/ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.

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About the Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse (JCADA)

JCADA's mission is to support victims of domestic abuse to become empowered and live safely; educate the community about domestic abuse and appropriate responses; and prevent future generations from suffering domestic abuse. JCADA is committed to providing high-quality services to all residents of the Greater Washington DC community without regard to ability, background, faith, gender or sexual orientation.

For more information, please visit http://jcada.org or contact Hannah Zollman, Director of Development and Communications, at hannah@jcada.org or (301) 315-8040.