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Hope for Families Center HFC SHELTER PROGRAM Grant: $44,930 Funds Used: $39,940 Total Children Served: 221 Cost per child: $180.72 Focus Area: Early Childhood Development; Building Parent Capacity; After School and Summer Recreational Activities and Academic Enrichment Taxonomy Number: BH -1800.8500 Homeless Shelter; PH -2400.1500 Child Care Provider Referrals; PH -1000 Case/Case Management Program Description: The Shelter Program is the first step for homeless families with children under 18 years of age to stabilize their lives by providing safe shelter, nutritious meals, clothing, and other basic necessities through case management, referrals and enrollment assistance to services available within the community. The goal for each family is to achieve financial stability, employment and permanent housing. Adults are referred to service providers within the community for employment training/placement, parenting skills workshops and mental/physical health care. Children are immediately assessed and enrolled in appropriate schooling, day care and after school, summer, winter and spring break activities/camps. This enables parents to become employed and maintain employment. Collaboration: The Hope for Families collaborates with numerous agencies that provide services to our clients. To cite a few: The Source provides dinner to our clients delivered to our campus five nights a week for cost. Health needs are met through Treasure Coast Community Health and Whole Family Health. Case management works with schools, after-school programs and day care facilities. They work directly with DCF to monitor the welfare of children while in the shelter, especially if there is an open case on the family. Clients with mental health issues will be referred to Sequel Mental Health. We work directly with Treasure Coast Homeless Services Council with Coordinated Entry and Rapid Rehousing efforts. COVID 19 — HFC's Response & Plan of Action: HFC remains open and committed to serve families living in the shelter during this pandemic. We are guided by the Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control on best practices. We have received support from the Hospital District and other agencies to help keep our staff and residents safe and well during this period. As such, our general policies for ensuring wellness includes a quarantined living area and taking temperatures now daily. All staff and residents are required to wear masks inside the shelter. Staff are required to always wear gloves and are trained on maintaining hygiene and prevention of cross contamination. There is regular cleaning after every meal and shift in kitchen and dining area as well as all other common areas. Regular cleaning of doors and all touch areas. Once daily cleaning of bathrooms. Case managers who regularly meet with clients are provided KN -95 masks. We continue to keep our doors open to new families. New families must receive COVID 19 testing. While waiting for results, the family is quarantined away from the general population. If the results are negative, they are moved into the wing with all other families. To date, we have had no cases of Covid-19 among staff or residents. With regards to children's activities and school programs, the children's case manager provides oversight on children's school activities on a daily basis. Children at Hope for Families Center were all placed in a summer camp. We are having to monitor students who have to be quarantined because they were exposed to someone with Covid-19 at school. Thisr29uires us