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qa BOOK L PAGE' EXHIBIT #2, PROJECT PRIORITY #2 SECTION A: PROJECT NARRATIVE: Options Team Supportive Services Project. 1. Project Summary The Options Team Supportive Services Project will create an intensive, comprehensive and coordinated outreach and case management team to respond to the needs of homeless individuals and families, 7 days a week. The Team will be a supportive services parmership made up of qualified professionals with expertise in a diversity of human services areas. The Team will come together to bring all of their connections and experience to bear on helping homeless individuals and families get started on the path to permanent housing, self determination and greater economic self sufficiency. The purpose of this project is to assure that there is adequate outreach, intake, assessment, referral and access to housing and comprehensive supportive services for homeless individuals and families. The Options Team will provide coordinated (1) Outreach (2) Case Management (3) Income and Education Support Services and (4) Housing Placement. The Options Team will be able to triage an individual or family and make referrals for services and lousing placements that can be implemented immediately. There will be a total of six health and human services professionals, including an Outreach Worker an Employment Specialist, a Housing Specialist and three case managers. Office space will be provided, free of charge to any Continuum of Care member agency requesting an on site presence to provide a service to the homeless. i.e. health clinic, mental health counseling group, AA meetings, parenting classes, etc. The proposed project will utilize SHP funds to create a team of professionals to deliver the following supportive services and activities: (1) utilize the uniform intake format developed by the Continuum of Care Data Committee to detail a service plan identifying the best mix of provider agencies in the Continuum of Care to meet the housing and supportive services needs of clients; (2) facilitate access into shelter, transitional housing, affordable rentals and affordable permanent housing: (3) facilitate the process of enrolling homeless persons and families for all eligible state and local entitlements and services; (4) link homeless people with health, mental health, and substance abuse services; (5) assist homeless persons in securing access to job placement, educational remediation and certificate training; (6) coordinate the distribution of TANF funds ; (7) access FEMA emergency housing funds and utilities payments for clients, and (8) work with the Oversight and Client Advocacy Committee of the Task Force on the Homeless Continuum of Care to access and increase the availability of safe, affordable permanent housing, The Indian River County Board of County Commissioners as the applicant will serve as the fiscal agent.. Services will be coordinated by the Indian River County Department of Human Services and the Homeless Assistance and Redirection Program, Inc.(HARP), a homeless assistance, case management and referral program serving Indian River and all of Department of Children and Families District Fifteen, since 1992. The Indian River County Board of County Commissioners, as the applicant, is requesting 5265,000 in Supportive Housing Program (SHP) funds to partially fund the The Options Team Supportive Services Project which will provide supportive services to no less than 250 individuals and families, daring the three-year term of this SHP grant. MAY 239 2000 -66- • 0