BRAVE-Bay Area, the nation’s first rape crisis center, is closing its doors in September.
The Oaklandside reports the Oakland-based nonprofit group cited federal funding cuts and dwindling staff as the primary reasons for its decision.
The center was founded in 1971, originally as Bay Area Women Against Rape by Oleta “Lee” Kirk Abrams. The Berkeley activist was angered over the treatment by police and doctors of her 15-year-old foster daughter, who was raped in a stairwell at Berkeley High School…