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INDIAN RIVER HOMELESS SERVICES COUNCIL, INC Final HUD 2002 Project Proposals June 3 2002 Project Priority One Martin County Health and Human Services Tenant Based Rental Assistance Applicant: Martin County Board of Commissioners $380,700.00 No dollar match This project will secure permanent affordable housing through tenant based rental assistance for a period of up to five years for a target population of chronically homeless individuals and families who repeatedly seek services from Martin County homeless service providers and primarily through the Martin County Health and Human Services Department. These clients are homeless due to their physical disabilities mental disabilities, or addictive disorders. Clients are high volume repeat users of County Health and Human Service resources and are often found on the streets, facing continual evictions from sub standard housing, living in homeless encampments or abandoned real estateand/or living in cars. This population also includes mentally ill homeless women with children, who face losing their children or who have lost their children already and continue to remain "on the street" due to their inability to access housing or to sustain it. Martin County Health and Human Services will assure that the inldnd service match is met by provider agencies who are currently seeing these client and by providing one on one counseling, case management, emergency medical and financial assistance where appropriate and by coordination of extensive referral and follow up with other supportive services providers in the community. Recipients of the rental assistance will be housed in Martin County over the five year period of the rental assistance in order to facilitate access to services. Number of assisted units=11. Project Priority Two Alcohope Inc. Tenant Based Rental Assistance $218,100.00 Applicant: Indian River County Board of Commissioners No dollar match This project will secure permanent affordable housing through tenant based rental assistance for a period of up to five years for the target population of substance abusing homeless individuals who art seeking treatment or who have completed treatment, at or through Alcohope Inc. who will require clean safe affordable housing to sustain the gains made in the treatment system and who can benefit from a secure housing situation The chronic substance abusing and or mentally ill client requires sustained, ongoing treatment and support services to maintain societal functioning and to support ongoing recovery from substance addition. Often the chronic homeless substance abusing population is disenfranchised from family members. This population may also exhibit co-occurring developmental disability, mental health problems or other disabling conditions that contribute to chrome homelessness The Indian River Homeless Services Council will assist Alcohope in administering the tenant based rental assistance. Alcohope will identify the tenants and provide or arrange for supportive services to the population to meet the match requirements. Recipients of the rental assistance will be JUNE 11, 2002 -46- 0 1, 4.;