{"id":303917,"date":"2025-10-14T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303917\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:52:10","slug":"philadelphias-only-rape-crisis-center-receives-temporary-funding-through-district-attorneys-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303917\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s only rape crisis center receives temporary funding through District Attorney&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New City Council funding, secured through the District Attorney&#8217;s Office, is offering temporary relief to Philadelphia&#8217;s only rape crisis center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WOAR<\/a>, formerly Women Organized Against Rape, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woar.org\/layoff-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced sweeping layoffs on Oct. 6<\/a>, cutting about three-quarters of its staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of our offices are pretty bare right now,&#8221; said Laquisha Anthony, senior manager of advocacy at WOAR.<\/p>\n<p>These empty offices once housed therapists serving survivors of sexual violence at WOAR, the city&#8217;s only rape crisis center. Now, the center itself is in crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last week, we unfortunately had to lay off a substantial number of our dedicated and vital staff,&#8221; said Anthony<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laquisha Anthony said 72% of WOAR&#8217;s funding comes from the state, money they haven&#8217;t received this year, with the budget now over 100 days overdue.<\/p>\n<p>The center can still staff its 24-hour hotline and offer some crisis counseling, but it has had to halt critical ongoing therapy services.<\/p>\n<p>One room used to host counseling for children who survived sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children who have started this process of counseling, and now it will be disrupted,&#8221; said Anthony.<\/p>\n<p>But now there&#8217;s some hope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will be receiving $90,000,&#8221; said Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phillyda.org\/news\/philadelphia-district-attorneys-office-awards-over-800000-to-nine-local-victim-advocacy-groups\/#:~:text=PHILADELPHIA%20(October%2014%2C%202025),total%20of%20%24810%2C000%20in%20funding.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Krasner announced new city funding for WOAR and eight other victim-services organizations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The context, sadly, is underfunding coming from the state,&#8221; said Krasner.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations outside the city are also suffering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are under a threat and it is a serious emergency,&#8221; said Mary Onama, executive director of Victim Services Center of Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p>Onama said 37% of their budget is frozen because of state delays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It pays for staffing, it pays for the operation of critical services, such as advocacy, counseling, and crisis hotline,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>While the $90,000 won&#8217;t restore WOAR to full strength, Anthony said this funding buys them time, but every day without state support means another survivor left waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New City Council funding, secured through the District Attorney&#8217;s Office, is offering temporary relief to Philadelphia&#8217;s only rape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,55839,1448,2830,1311,12650,10409,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-303917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-larry-krasner","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-rape","14":"tag-sexual-assault","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115375213291165676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}