Article: State funds support group for survivors: Agency that helps families of homicide victims gets first grant.

Byline: Leonard Sykes Jr.

Apr. 26--Career Youth Development's Survivors of Homicide support group, largely operated in the past volunteers, received a financial boost Tuesday -- a $40,000 state grant aimed at reducing crime in the central city. The support group, which began in 1984 but has continued as part of the agency's Victory over Violence initiative, has never been able to qualify for state or federal funding in the past. But state Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, who announced the grant Tuesday at the agency, said the support group is not only a novel program for Milwaukee's neighborhoods, it's centrally located and within reach of the people it ...

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