{"id":10299,"date":"2023-07-06T17:33:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:49:28","slug":"safe-horizos-statement-on-new-york-citys-fy24-city-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Horizon&#8217;s Statement on New York City&#8217;s FY24 City Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><em>July 6, 2023<br \/>\n<\/em><em>By Liz Roberts<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the spring of 2020, victims of domestic violence seeking orders of protection at the city\u2019s Family Courts were greeted instead with padlocked doors. Like many public buildings, the courts were closed due to fears of contagion.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Taped to the doors were signs directing victims seeking help and legal assistance to call Safe Horizon. Over the next several months, our call volume was staggering. In September 2020, Safe Horizon&#8217;s Domestic Violence Law Project alone assisted with nearly half of the 906 orders of protection sought by victims of domestic violence across New York City.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Safe Horizon\u2019s programs remained open and accessible to our clients because our amazing, dedicated staff continued to show up each and every day to help survivors find paths to safety. And our staff continue to show up for survivors each and every day despite the many challenges that face our city.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The people of New York owe our staff and the hundreds of thousands of human services workers that keep our communities afloat much more than our gratitude. We owe them a living wage that recognizes the very difficult, demanding, and essential work they do.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Along with hundreds of our fellow human service nonprofit providers, Safe Horizon joined the #JustPay campaign, spearheaded by the Human Services Council, to demand a 6.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for staff in the nonprofit workforce. This long-overdue investment in working people is a moral imperative. It is the right thing to do, and it will help Safe Horizon and our sister organizations retain staff who are proud of their work but might otherwise leave for better-paying jobs almost anywhere else.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And so, we are deeply disappointed and angry that the city\u2019s final budget for FY24 only includes a very small &#8220;workforce enhancement&#8221; for the staff at Safe Horizon and across the sector who work so hard on behalf of vulnerable New Yorkers.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Let me be perfectly clear: If Mayor Adams cares about public safety, if Mayor Adams believes that domestic violence survivors and their families deserve access to safety and support, if Mayor Adams understands the importance of investing in the working-class people of NYC, then he must commit to #JustPay for our staff. We will not settle for less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s time to #JustPay our workforce.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Roberts comments on NYC&#8217;s FY24 budget which includes a very small &#8220;workforce enhancement&#8221; for Safe Horizon staff and across the sector who work so hard on behalf of vulnerable New Yorkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":{"id":9685,"alt_text":"Support children and families in domestic violence shelters","caption":"Peggy Duffy Memorial fund","description":"Support children and families in domestic violence shelters","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":512,"height":512,"file":"2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png","filesize":31715,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail-300x300.png","width":300,"height":300,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":18595,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail-300x300.png"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail-150x150.png","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":8008,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail-150x150.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":9684,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png"},"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statements-and-press-releases"],"acf":{"page_header_title":"","title_font_size":"42","page_header_excerpt":"","sub-headline_placement":false,"page_header_image":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/silhouette_hero_image.png","custom_scripts":false,"show_author_bio":false,"original_url":"","related_initiative_title":"","related_initiative_link":"","related_initiative_link_text":"","featured_posts":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v26.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Safe Horizon&#039;s Statement on New York City&#039;s FY24 City Budget<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Liz Roberts comments on NYC&#039;s FY24 budget which includes a very small &quot;workforce enhancement&quot; for Safe Horizon staff and across the sector.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Safe Horizon&#039;s Statement on New York City&#039;s FY24 City Budget\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liz Roberts comments on NYC&#039;s FY24 budget which includes a very small &quot;workforce enhancement&quot; for Safe Horizon staff and across the sector.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Safe Horizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/safehorizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-06T21:33:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-10T18:49:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dana R\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@safehorizon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@safehorizon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dana R\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dana R\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/person\/863b8a4420ccb4b37ec21128f674a50a\"},\"headline\":\"Safe Horizon&#8217;s Statement on New York City&#8217;s FY24 City Budget\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-06T21:33:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-10T18:49:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/\"},\"wordCount\":398,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Statements and Press Releases\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/\",\"name\":\"Safe Horizon's Statement on New York City's FY24 City Budget\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-06T21:33:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-10T18:49:28+00:00\",\"description\":\"Liz Roberts comments on NYC's FY24 budget which includes a very small \\\"workforce enhancement\\\" for Safe Horizon staff and across the sector.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"Peggy Duffy Memorial fund\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/\",\"name\":\"Safe Horizon\",\"description\":\"Safety. Connection. Healing.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Safe Horizon\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/safe-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/safe-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"Safe Horizon\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/safehorizon\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/safehorizon\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/safehorizon\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/safe-horizon\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SafeHorizonNY\",\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Safe_Horizon\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/person\/863b8a4420ccb4b37ec21128f674a50a\",\"name\":\"Dana R\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/607834255dfd8abe6829e83748106c53942138baa872e2d858fbb3da6978e5c0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/607834255dfd8abe6829e83748106c53942138baa872e2d858fbb3da6978e5c0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dana R\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Safe Horizon's Statement on New York City's FY24 City Budget","description":"Liz Roberts comments on NYC's FY24 budget which includes a very small \"workforce enhancement\" for Safe Horizon staff and across the sector.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Safe Horizon's Statement on New York City's FY24 City Budget","og_description":"Liz Roberts comments on NYC's FY24 budget which includes a very small \"workforce enhancement\" for Safe Horizon staff and across the sector.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/","og_site_name":"Safe Horizon","article_publisher":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/safehorizon","article_published_time":"2023-07-06T21:33:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-06-10T18:49:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":512,"height":512,"url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Dana R","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@safehorizon","twitter_site":"@safehorizon","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dana R","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/"},"author":{"name":"Dana R","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/person\/863b8a4420ccb4b37ec21128f674a50a"},"headline":"Safe Horizon&#8217;s Statement on New York City&#8217;s FY24 City Budget","datePublished":"2023-07-06T21:33:23+00:00","dateModified":"2025-06-10T18:49:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/"},"wordCount":398,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png","articleSection":["Statements and Press Releases"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/","url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/","name":"Safe Horizon's Statement on New York City's FY24 City Budget","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png","datePublished":"2023-07-06T21:33:23+00:00","dateModified":"2025-06-10T18:49:28+00:00","description":"Liz Roberts comments on NYC's FY24 budget which includes a very small \"workforce enhancement\" for Safe Horizon staff and across the sector.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/positions-statements\/nyc-fy24-city-budget\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Safe-Horizon-Flower-Logo_TransparentThumbnail.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Peggy Duffy Memorial fund"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/","name":"Safe Horizon","description":"Safety. Connection. Healing.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#organization","name":"Safe Horizon","url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/safe-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/safe-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"Safe Horizon"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/facebook.com\/safehorizon","https:\/\/x.com\/safehorizon","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/safehorizon\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/safe-horizon","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SafeHorizonNY","https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Safe_Horizon"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/person\/863b8a4420ccb4b37ec21128f674a50a","name":"Dana R","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/607834255dfd8abe6829e83748106c53942138baa872e2d858fbb3da6978e5c0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/607834255dfd8abe6829e83748106c53942138baa872e2d858fbb3da6978e5c0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dana R"}}]}},"taxonomies":{"categories":[{"term_id":2013,"name":"Statements and Press Releases","slug":"statements-and-press-releases","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2013,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":112,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2013,"category_count":112,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Statements and Press Releases","category_nicename":"statements-and-press-releases","category_parent":0}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}