Thrusday, December 24, 1998
Local agencies have share of federal homeless funds
BY DANA DiFILIPPO
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will share $60.3 million in federal funds to help homeless people obtain housing, job training, child care, mental health services and substance-abuse treatment under an $850 million aid package President Clinton announced Wednesday.
Cincinnati and Hamilton County agencies will get a total of $6 million, and Northern Kentucky groups, $2.5 million. Indiana's share will include $1.22 million for the Community Mental Health Center of Lawrenceburg.
The aid, which local governments and nonprofit groups apply for each year, is intended to help more than 330,000 homeless.
This year's funding is slightly less than the $865 million announced last year, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development's annual homeless funding is nearly triple what it was in 1993 when President Clinton took office.
The money will go to more than 300 communities, all 50 state governments and more than 1,000 nonprofit groups including the Salvation Army, Volunteers of America and Catholic Charities.
About $700 million in aid targets 1,420 long-term pro grams to help people permanently end their homelessness, as part of HUD's Continuum of Care (COC) program.
The remaining $150 million funds Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG), which provide food and shelter on a short-term basis. Those grants are based on a community's housing and poverty needs, and dispensed by states and cities.
Under the plan:
• Ohio will get $34.6 million. That includes $27.9 million in COC funds and $6.7 million in ESG funds.
• Kentucky will get $12.2 million. That includes $10.2 million in COC funds and $2 million in ESG funds.
• Indiana will get $13.5 million. That includes $10.6 million in COC funds and $2.9 million in ESG funds.
The Drop Inn Center in Over-the-Rhine will use its $297,000 to fund a new program to serve homeless people who are mentally ill, said Pat Clifford, the shelter's general coordinator.
Money for local agencies
Cincinnati and Hamilton County will get $5.3 million in federal Continuum of Care (COC) funds and $591,000 in Emergency Shelter Grants. The money will be shared by:
• First Step Home Inc., a Price Hill rehabilitation center for drug-addicted women, $385,000.
• Independent Living Options, Inc., which assists people with disabilities, $124,687.
• City of Cincinnati, $2.1 million.
• Drop Inn Center, an Over-the-Rhine homeless shelter, $297,000.
• Chabad House, a Roselawn homeless shelter for families, $349,125.
• Caracole, Inc., a housing agency for people with AIDS, $591,240.
• Greater Cincinnati Oral Health Council, which offers homeless people free dental work, $682,651.
• YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, which runs the Alice Paul House, a shelter for battered women, $460,911.
• Tender Mercies Inc., an Over-the-Rhine shelter for the mentally ill, $288,750.
In Kentucky, Northern Kentucky agencies will get $2.4 million in COC funds. Covington will get $77,000 in Emergency Shelter Grants:
• Northern Kentucky Area Development District, $1.5 million.
• Transitions, Inc., a Covington group that helps people with drug addictions, $899,449.
—The Cincinnati Enquirer
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