Princeton Area Community Foundation awarded PEI Kids two $25,000 grants.
The grants support PEI Kids’ mission to keep children safe through Prevention, Education and Intervention programs. Last year the programs reached more than 16,000 Mercer County children, parents and teachers.
PACF is helping ensure these youth-focused efforts continue by supporting the organization with a recent $25,000 general operating grant from its Greater Mercer Grant Program.
Another recent $25,000 grant from PACF Fund for Women and Girls is directly supporting PEI Kids’ Protecting Our Daughters from Child Sexual Abuse through Education and Support. The program comprises therapeutic support groups for Mercer County girls who are victims of sexual abuse and their women caregivers
The grant also supports a county-wide child sexual abuse prevention campaign.
PACF president Nancy Kieling said in a statement than the Community Foundation has been supporting PEI Kids for more than a decade, especially its programs dedicated to helping children to who have been sexually abused heal.
More information is online at peikids.org and pacf.org.
