The Women’s Center of Jacksonville has received two grants totaling $225,000 over two years to continue its flagship sexual assault prevention initiative, the LEAD Program, or Leaders Emerging and Developing.
One grant is $125,000 from the The Community Foundation of Northeast Florida’s Women’s Giving Alliance, the other is for $100,000 from the Terry Family Foundation.
“This funding is critical to sustaining and growing our prevention efforts,” Maria Johnson, director of development, said. “We’re not just educating — we’re changing the culture. We’re equipping community members of all ages to step in, speak out and support one another.”
LEAD offers customized workshops for kindergarten through fifth-graders, middle and high school students, college students and adults in professional and community settings.
Workshop topics include bystander intervention, consent, healthy and unhealthy relationships, boundaries and “tools that foster resilience, safety and leadership,” the center said.
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This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Amid federal cuts, Women’s Center of Jacksonville gets sexual assault prevention grants
Reporting by Beth Reese Cravey, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union / Florida Times-Union
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