{"id":126065,"date":"2023-12-14T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126065"},"modified":"2023-12-14T21:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T02:22:26","slug":"boscola-announces-169725-in-grant-funding-for-local-law-enforcement-and-children-and-youth-advocacy-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126065","title":{"rendered":"BOSCOLA ANNOUNCES $169,725 IN GRANT FUNDING FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT  AND CHILDREN AND YOUTH ADVOCACY PROGRAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BETHLEHEM (December 13, 2023) \u2013<\/strong> State Senator Lisa M. Boscola announced that the PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) awarded $169,725 in grant funding for local law enforcement and children and youth advocacy programs throughout the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is absolutely critical that we as a Commonwealth provide local law enforcement with the personnel and tools necessary to serve our citizens and keep our communities safe,\u201d Senator Boscola stated. \u201cGrants to the City of Bethlehem and the Slate Belt Regional Police will assist in those efforts. Additionally, funds for programs to advocate for children and prevent juvenile crime are critical for our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The following four grants were approved today by PCCD:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local Law Enforcement Support Grant Program<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City of Bethlehem: Signing Bonuses for nine vacancies and six anticipated openings. $75,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>State Medical Marijuana Enforcement Act Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slate Belt Regional Police: Impaired Driving Enforcement. $42,854<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>State Children\u2019s Advocacy Center Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lehigh Valley Hospital, Inc.: Improving CAC operations and impact. $46,871<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>State Violence and Delinquency Prevention Program Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lehigh County: Lehigh County Youth Justice Advisory Board Council. $5,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nKurt J. Derr<br \/>\nOffice of Senator Lisa Boscola<br \/>\nOne East Broad Street, Suite 120<br \/>\nBethlehem, PA 18018<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM (December 13, 2023) \u2013 State Senator Lisa M. Boscola announced that the PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) awarded $169,725 in grant funding for local law enforcement and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126065\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOSCOLA ANNOUNCES $169,725 IN GRANT FUNDING FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT  AND CHILDREN AND YOUTH ADVOCACY PROGRAMS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/boscola-news.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}