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Consideration of a grant in the amount of $111,904 for COMCARE'S Homeless Program Path Application.
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Recommended Action: Approve the application for the grant, and if awarded authorize acceptance of the grant and the Chairman to sign all necessary documents, including the grant award.
Grant Renewal: Yes
Never Applied: N/A
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline: COMCARE's Homeless Program has been providing services under the PATH (Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness) grant for 17 years through the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services. In this renewal application, COMCARE proposes to continue providing access to mental health and substance use treatment services for persons who are literally homeless. These services include:
- Street outreach;
- Screening and diagnostic treatment;
- Case management;
- Referrals to other providers, like primary healthcare and addiction treatment; and
- Technical assistance in applying for housing, benefits, employment, etc. as appropriate.
COMCARE's PATH funds will be utilized to support two full time (2.0 FTE) outreach case managers and 0.40 FTE office specialist to manage data for the program. COMCARE expects that approximately 400 literally homeless adults with mental illness and/or substance use will be outreached and 200 will be enrolled into services annually.
Financial Considerations:
Grant period starts: 08/01/14
Grant period ends: 07/31/15
Source of funding
Grant: $111,904
Match: $34,492
Required Cash Match: $10,829
Required In-Kind Match: $23,663
Other funding:$0
TOTAL SOURCES: $146,396
Uses of funding
Operational costs: $146,396
Personnel: $133,217
Contractual services: $5,950
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