The Canyon Creek Women’s Crisis Center in Cedar City recently received a grant of $36,000 from The Daniels Fund to provide transitional housing for victims of domestic violence.
Cindy Baldwin, executive director of the CCWCC, said The Daniels Fund is a foundation that provides grants and scholarships in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. She said the foundation has a broad mission, but the category the crisis center’s grant fell under was “homeless and disadvantaged.”
She said the center’s shelter has been receiving financial assistance from The Daniels Fund for many years to meet its basic operational needs. This year, she said, the CCWCC changed its request to ask for help in starting a transitional housing program to assist women who have been living in the shelter as they deal with many of the changes involved in moving from living in the women’s shelter to independent living.
Baldwin said during the 2011-2012 fiscal year ending in June, the crisis center’s emergency shelter provided a place to stay for 150 women and children for a total of 3,570 sheltered nights, which was an increase from 2,327 sheltered nights provided in the 2010-2011 fiscal year. The Spectrum
