{"id":41586,"date":"2026-10-06T18:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=41586"},"modified":"2026-10-06T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:46:36","slug":"governor-hochul-announces-15-million-investment-to-establish-first-ever-staten-island-community-justice-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/41586","title":{"rendered":"Governor Hochul announces $15 million investment to establish first ever-Staten Island community justice center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: Governor Kathy Hochul announced $15 million to help establish the Staten Island Community Justice Center, transforming the borough\u2019s former criminal courthouse at 67 Targee Street into a permanent hub for community-based justice, youth programming and supportive services.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic safety is my top priority. Keeping communities safe means ensuring that every corner of New York has the resources necessary to drive down crime,\u201d Governor Hochul said.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this investment, Staten Island will finally have a permanent Community Justice Center that brings critical services and support together in one place to make communities across Staten Island safer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island was the only New York City borough without a Community Justice Center, leaving its 500,000 residents without the coordinated neighborhood infrastructure available elsewhere in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Hocul\u2019s $15 million investment will bring government and non-profit partners together to build on services already provided to Staten Islanders by the Center for Justice Innovation, creating a hub for programming designed to address the underlying factors that contribute to crime and recidivism into a dedicated facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Justice Innovation currently provides Staten Island residents with diversion and alternatives-to-incarceration programs, counseling, youth mentorship, workforce development, reentry services and other support.<\/p>\n<p>The Center will serve as a neighborhood-based service hub and will provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive screening, assessment, case management, and referrals for mental health, substance use, housing and employment.<\/p>\n<p>By increasing access to alternatives to incarceration and treatment, the Center will strengthen accountability and public safety and will provide a permanent home for youth diversion, mentorship, violence prevention and victim services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: Governor Kathy Hochul announced $15 million to help establish the Staten Island Community Justice Center, transforming the borough\u2019s former criminal courthouse at 67 Targee Street into a permanent hub for community-based justice, youth programming and supportive services. \u201cPublic safety is my top priority. Keeping communities safe means ensuring that every corner of New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41587,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41586\/revisions\/41587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}