By ALYSSA DANDREA Monitor staff Published: 2/13/2019 5:45:07 PM Related stories Fighting Back: Confronting domestic violence in N.H Gov. Chris Sununu will call for a nearly 50 percent increase in state funding for victim services provided by the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and its 13 member crisis centers during his budget address Thursday.Lawmakers allocated $643,456 in the state’s general fund in each of the last two fiscal years. Sununu will propose that the state contribute $1.2 million in fiscal year 2020 and again in 2021.Sununu said in a statement Wednesday to the Monitor that the money is essential to help crisis centers continue to do the critical work of protecting survivors of domestic violence and empower them to achieve financial independence.“Their work is at the core of what we stand for as a state and community,” he said.The coalition manages the money in a dedicated fund known as the Domestic Violence Prevention Program and distributes it to the 13 crisis centers that serve approximately 15,000 victims of domestic and sexual violence each year. The money is used by crisis centers to accompany victims to court and to hospitals for emergency services, to provide trauma-informed services to…