On Saturday August 26, a white man killed three Black people in a racially motivated attack in Jacksonville, Florida. The Justice Department is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism. FBI data from March 2023 shows an alarming rise in violent attacks against communities made vulnerable by…
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Advocacy Center Program Offerings for Youth
As we head into a new school year, our Youth Educator, Katrina, will be presenting to 9th graders and new students at Ithaca High School’s welcoming orientation. She will be letting them know about our agency services, as well as providing some programming around healthy versus unhealthy behaviors within both friendships and romantic connections. Katrina…
Read OnTompkins County Safe Harbour Team Celebrates Seven Years
Beginning in 2015, Tompkins County was awarded funding to become a Safe Harbour County by New York State. This meant that we were provided resources to begin the process of formally developing a coordinated response, raising community awareness, and educating community members around the issue of sex trafficking of youth, referred to as the Commercial…
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