Federal funds allotted for violence programs

AUGUSTA – Victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in Maine will benefit from nearly $900,000 in federal funding that has been awarded to 25 Maine organizations in late November.

Most of the funding comes from the federal STOP Violence Against Women grant program.

Recipients in the Bangor Daily News readership area include:

. Aroostook Mental Health Services, $36,699.

. Battered Women’s Project, Aroostook County, $30,018.

. Hancock County District Attorney’s Office, $50,851.

. Next Step in Hancock County, $17,199.

. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, $58,421.

. Womancare-Aegis in Piscataquis County, $11,827.

. Somerset and Kennebec County District Attorney’s Office, $55,740.

. Pleasant Point Tribal Government, $23,000.

. Washington County Sheriff’s Department, $38,844.

. Maine District Court, $44,055.

. Maine Sheriff’s Association, $52,160.

. Office of the Attorney General, $32,911.