The Crime Victims Fund helps support shelter, counseling, advocacy, and other services for millions of victims of crime each year. Declining deposits have led to funding cuts that affect programs and the people who rely on them.

The House passed the bipartisan Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act. Now we’re asking the Senate to act.

‘This is a Band-Aid’: Local DV agencies say Hochul’s $36M victim services boost isn’t enough. Providers welcome the additional funding but say New York's system for funding critical survivor services needs an overhaul.

“We are still concerned about the stewardship of victim service dollars, the procurement process and the impact on victim service agencies across New York state that are still facing deficits,” Kostyal-Larrier said.

The GOP ranking member of the New York Senate’s Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee is calling on the New York State Comptroller’s Office to look into the process in which the state allocates funding for services to rape crisis, domestic violence and child advocacy centers.

This is amid news that some victim assistance programs statewide are not receiving the same amount of funding this upcoming cycle compared to years past.The GOP ranking member of the New York Senate’s Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee is calling on the New York State Comptroller’s Office to look into the process in which the state allocates funding for services to rape crisis, domestic violence and child advocacy centers.

This is amid news that some victim assistance programs statewide are not receiving the same amount of funding this upcoming cycle compared to years past.

In Orange and Sullivan counties, the executive director of Fearless! Hudson Valley, Kellyann Kostyal-Larrier, said it’s experiencing a nearly 30% decrease in funding.

“Almost $500,000 annually that we’ll be facing a deficit," said Kostyal-Larrier. “This is on the heels of the same funding since 2022 with an inability to appropriately ask for an increase in cost-of-living for staff, increase salaries.”