The National Children’s Alliance has awarded Ypsilanti’s Washtenaw Child Advocacy Center a $50,000 grant to expand its services for child sexual abuse victims.

The grant will allow the center to provide mental health therapy, in addition to the short-term crisis counseling it currently offers.

“This grant allows us to provide longer-term, trauma-focused therapy, which will benefit many of the children and adolescents we see,” Cathi Kelley, the Advocacy Center’s director, said in a statement. “As with all our services, it will be provided at no cost to families.”

The Advocacy Center was one of two organizations in the state to receive one of the national grants.