Second Center for Victims of Sexual Assault to Open
The Valley Trauma Center, which has provided crisis services for sexual assault victims in Northridge since 1984, announced Monday that it will open a second center in Newhall.
Trauma center officials said the Newhall branch will be the only facility of its kind in the Santa Clarita Valley and will help to compensate for a lack of sexual trauma services in northern Los Angeles County. It is scheduled to open the week of May 18.
“We are going to be serving an area from Santa Clarita to Lancaster,” said Jennifer Griffin, assistant director of the new Valley Trauma Center North. “Right now there is not much up there. Assault victims often have to come the [San Fernando] Valley for counseling and other services.”
The new center will be funded with a $160,000 grant from the state Office of Criminal Justice Planning, which also provides funding for the Northridge center, officials said.
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