Crime & Public Safety
State grant program directs victim-assistance funding to Horry County organizations
Horry County organizations will receive a portion of a statewide crime victim assistance allocation announced by the South Carolina Attorney General’s office. Attorney General Alan Wilson said the Department of Crime Victim Assistance grant is part of a larger $29 million fund and that 39 grants were awarded across the region.
Wilson said more than $9.2 million in funding is going to 30 agencies “throughout the Lowcountry, from Beaufort County up the coast to Horry County.” The office’s distribution includes 10 grants awarded to Horry County organizations. One nonprofit named in the announcement, Hopeful Horizons, will receive the largest single award from two grant programs — the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) and the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) — totaling more than $1.2 million.
According to Wilson, the recent funding increase follows a federal decline from 2018 to 2024 when he said federal support dropped about 76% from a high of $52 million. The grants are intended to sustain services that provide medical assistance, mental-health care and other resources for crime victims, and to support domestic violence shelters, human trafficking services and children’s shelters, the Attorney General’s office said.
At the time of the announcement the Attorney General’s office reported the allocation and recipient totals; there is no case investigation or enforcement action described in the funding notice and no individual victims or incidents were named in the release.
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