{"id":29449,"date":"2026-03-16T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29449"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:47:24","slug":"sen-ossoff-strengthening-resources-for-victims-of-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-strengthening-resources-for-victims-of-child-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Strengthening Resources for Victims of Child Abuse\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering resources to support victims of child abuse in&nbsp;Georgia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bringing Republicans and Democrats in Congress together,&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff is delivering new funding to the&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;Center&nbsp;for Child Advocacy to strengthen responses to child abuse and maltreatment across&nbsp;Georgia.&nbsp;The Center will use these new funds to hire and train&nbsp;additional&nbsp;staff for their forensics, advocacy, therapy, and prevention programming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is delivering&nbsp;$350,000&nbsp;for the project through bipartisan government funding legislation that became law on February 3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNothing matters more than the safety and wellbeing of children,\u201d<strong>&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThat is why I brought Republicans and Democrats together in Congress to improve services for child victims of crime and help prevent further victimization of children.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you to Senator Ossoff for joining the&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;Center&nbsp;for Child Advocacy and our fight against child sexual abuse and the trafficking of minors. From the teenage girl who escapes her trafficker, to the young boy who is now recovering from post-traumatic stress after witnessing the violent loss of a family member \u2013 these stories of survival are happening at child advocacy centers across&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;and together, we give these children a chance to find their voice, be heard and heal,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said Sheila Ryan, CEO of the&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;Center&nbsp;for Child Advocacy.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is delivering resources to support victims of child abuse in&nbsp;Georgia.&nbsp; Bringing Republicans and Democrats in Congress together,&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff is delivering new funding to the&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;Center&nbsp;for Child Advocacy to strengthen responses to child abuse and maltreatment across&nbsp;Georgia.&nbsp;The Center will use these new funds to hire and train&nbsp;additional&nbsp;staff for their forensics, advocacy, therapy, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29449","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29450,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29449\/revisions\/29450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}