North Alabama child advocacy agencies receive grants

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAFF) – Governor Kay Ivey introduced that eight companies in north Alabama that assist kids who’re victims of abuse and neglect will obtain grants.

The grants totaling $1.6 million shall be used to offer emotional and security help and authorized help to little one victims.

“Baby abuse can go away victims with life-long scars, and it robs them of their innocence,” Gov. Ivey stated in an announcement. “I’m grateful for these organizations and the skilled help they supply to little one victims together with their support in seeing that abusers are prosecuted.”

• Nationwide Kids’s Advocacy Heart in Huntsville: $571,074 to offer help and companies for victims in DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall and Morgan counties.
• Baby Advocacy Heart of Marshall County in Guntersville: $137,520 to offer help and companies for youngsters in Marshall County.
• James M. Barrie Heart for Kids Inc. in Gadsden: $248,453 to offer companies to abused and uncared for kids in Etowah County.
• Blount County Kids’s Heart in Oneonta: $50,049 to offer companies and authorized help for victims in Blount County.
• DeKalb County Kids’s Advocacy Heart Inc. in Fort Payne: $258,316 to offer companies for little one victims in DeKalb County.
• Jackson County Kids’s Advocacy Heart Inc. in Scottsboro: $110,016 to offer emotional help and authorized companies for victims in Jackson County.
• Kids’s Advocacy Heart of Cherokee County in Centre: $133,853 to offer companies for youngsters in Cherokee County.
• Calhoun/Cleburne Kids’s Heart Inc. in Anniston: $124,685 to offer help and authorized companies for little one victims in Calhoun and Cleburne counties.

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