DEPARTMENT: Human Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Melody Woosley
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City-wide
SUBJECT:
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Funding Allocations from FY 2016 Grant Funds and FY 2017 Grant Funds and Related Contract Amendments
SUMMARY:
The Department of Human Services (DHS) is requesting authorization to reallocate a total of $150,012 in HOPWA Funds awarded to San Antonio Aids Foundation (SAAF) through Ordinances 2015-09-10-0754 and 2016-09-15-0693 to currently funded delegate agency programs and related contract amendments. Specifically, this item authorizes allocation of $51,376 to the SAAF Transitional Housing program from their Nursing Facility Based Housing Operations program; $84,535 to Alamo Area Resource Center (AARC) to support the Housing Works program; and $14,101 to BEAT AIDS to provide support for the Case Management Program through the period October 1, 2016-September 30, 2017.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The HOPWA program provides funding to support housing assistance and related supportive services for low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. HOPWA funds may be used for supportive services and housing support.
On August 4, 2016, through Ordinance 2016-08-04-0554, City Council authorized the HOPWA entitlement grant in the amount of $1,244,429 for FY 2017 as part of the City's FY 2017 HUD Annual Action Plan. Funding was awarded to SAAF, AARC and BEAT AIDS programs through the FY 2017 and FY 2018 Human and Workforce Development Services Consolidated Funding Process, and approved as part of the FY 2017 Adopted Operating Budget.
ISSUE:
On December 21, 2016, SAAF notified DHS that their Nursing Facility Based Housing Operations Program, which provides residential skilled nursing/hospice care with supportive services to individuals with HIV/AIDS, would close on December 31, 2016. Due to changing community needs, SAAF opened a new outpatient a...
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