{"id":3272,"date":"2010-11-23T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2010-11-23T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:50:29","slug":"morning-read-troubled-comlinks-drops-domestic-violence-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/23\/morning-read-troubled-comlinks-drops-domestic-violence-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Troubled ComLinks drops domestic violence program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ComLinks has been making headlines the last couple of years for various scandals and allegations of mismanagement.\u00a0 There have also been indications that the big regional non-profit, based in Malone, faced financial difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Now the P<a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x161015732\/ComLinks-cuts-domestic-violence-program\">lattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a> is reporting that ComLinks will drop its domestic violence program, which includes a safe house (once visited by Hillary Rodham Clinton) in Saranac Lake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The community-action agency &#8220;wants to get back to the basics of what  we do best: housing, food and jobs,&#8221; Marc &#8220;Tim&#8221; Lashomb, president of  the Board of Directors, said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Domestic Violence Intervention Program will be transitioned to a  new group determined by Lesley Lyon, commissioner of the Franklin County  Department of Social Services, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The program is too costly for us,&#8221; Lashomb said, adding that grant funding received was not paying for all of its expenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Franklin County officials are exploring ways to continue providing domestic violence services, according to the article.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x161015732\/ComLinks-cuts-domestic-violence-program\">You can read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComLinks has been making headlines the last couple of years for various scandals and allegations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4803,4792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}