Jeanne Shaheen Visits Coos County Family Health Service

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (center) visited Coos County Family Health Service’s Response to Domestic and Sexual Violence Crisis Center in Berlin on Thursday. Among the people meeting with the senator were Joi Smith, program director for the NH Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (left), and Deborah Haynes-Kenney, CCFHS’s Response program director. (BARBARA TETREAULT PHOTO)

BERLIN — U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) has been instrumental in getting the Senate to allocate funding for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse and last Thursday she visited Coos County Family Health Service’s Response to Domestic and Sexual Violence Crisis Center in Berlin.

For an hour, the senator spoke with local advocates about the increased funding and asked what was working and what is needed.

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