EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) -
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are coming to Evansville to help children from abusive households.
US Attorney Joseph Hogsett is in Evansville Thursday to present the city with the nearly $400,000 grant.
The city of Evansville was chosen as the lead agency, but more than a dozen agencies will be involved with this new Safe Havens program.
It is meant to protect children whose parents may have been involved in an abusive relationship with each other, and now share custody of the child.
Through the grant, a social worker can supervise visits with either parent, and also serve as a go between to offer a safe exchange so that the abusive parent doesn't have to interact with the parent who may be physically, emotionally or mentally victimized.
"A person is in the room to make sure everything is taken care of, the victim does not come in contact with the perpetrator, that is the most dangerous time, the exchange of the children all of the violence we've had with murders here in Evansville when people have been killed exchanging children," Hogsett said.
The Safe Havens Program will be a three-year program.
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US Attorney Joseph Hogsett is in Evansville Thursday to present the city with the nearly $400,000 grant.
