Governor Robert Bentley recently awarded several grants to help fund programs providing assistance to survivors of domestic abuse in Alabama.
The Department of Economic and Community Affairs says Bentley awarded nearly $40,000 to the Marion County Commission. That grant supports a program that helps prosecute domestic violence cases in both Marion and Winston Counties.
The governor also awarded over $85,000 to fund an Escambia County program to help the district attorney and sheriff's office investigate domestic violence cases there. That grant money will also help the county provide counseling for domestic violence victims.
A separate grant of nearly $50,000 was awarded to the Marshall County District Attorney's office in order to fund a similar domestic violence program to the one being established in Escambia County.