CARTERVILLE, Ill. (KFVS) - The Poshard Foundation will announce $106.5K in grant awards to southern Illinois agencies that serve abused, abandonded and neglected children.
Jo Poshard, director of the Posard Foundation for Abused Children, will announce 28 grants on Thursday, April 30.
“April is state and national Child Abuse Prevention Month,” Poshard said. “Our Foundation distributes these grants in April to draw attention to the plight of abused children in Southern Illinois and to remind the public that child abuse exists twelve months a year…not only in April. We must be vigilant year-round.”
The press conference will take place at 1 p.m. in the Board Conference Room at John A. Logan College.
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