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Applicant Name : INDIAN RIVER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DUNS #_079 - 208 - 989 Project Name : New Horizons S+C Tenant Rental Assistance - Project Priority# ONE Exhibit 3 : Project Narrative Section A is a description of your proposed project. Please respond to all of the items in this section. Submit a separate Exhibit 3 for each priority project. A project may include no more than one component (i . e . , TRA, SRA, PRA without rehab, PRA with rehab, SRO) and may be carried out by no more than one project sponsor. 1 . Project summary . Please provide the following : a. Applicant and sponsor (if appropriate) names : Indian River County Board of County Commissioners b . Program component- TRA c . Total S+C request: $355 ,080.00 d . The type of housing and number of units proposed- 11 units, variety of types e . The population to be served : Homeless disabled unaccompanied adults . f. If this is the Priority # 1 permanent housing bonus project, indicate that 100 % of the persons to be served will be chronically homeless : II Yes 0 No Exhibit 3 : Project Narrative PROJECT PRIORITY ONE , New Horizons S +C Tenant Rental Assistance 1 . Project Summary. The Indian River County Board of County Commissioners as the applicant is requesting $ 355 , 080 . 00 in Tenant Rental Assistance under the Shelter Plus Care component to provide permanent affordable housing for at least eleven homeless disabled, unaccompanied adults, at least 70% of whom are chronically homeless . New Horizons of the Treasure Coast and Family Preservation services will provide the match supportive services to the assisted tenants . Indian River County Human Services will administer the tenant based rental assistance . 2 . Homeless population to be served. a. Characteristic and need for housing and supportive services . The population to be served will include homeless single adults who homeless due to the nature of their disability . At least 70 % will be chronically homeless and have mental illness and or/ mental illness and substance abuse . They will come from the street, camps in the woods, from the county jails or from jail diversion programs in Indian River and St . Lucie County. It is likely that 100% of the population will come from these locations and 0% will come from transitional housing . The applicant, Indian River County is now well experienced in providing permanent supportive housing to this client population . The Treasure Coast Homeless Services Council, New Horizons of the Treasure Coast Inc . , Family Preservation, the Mental Health Association and the Homeless Shelter have formed a monthly Shelter Plus Care Committee to assist homeless individuals on a daily with Housing and Entitlement Assistance . These organizations will continue to outreach clients in their normal course of services and will be assisted by the Sheriff' s Departments, the Ft . Pierce Police Department, and the Court System in identifying homeless people who can benefit from this program. b . Where they will come from. New Horizons, case manages more than 600 individuals a year who are homeless and have chronic mental health and substance abuse problems . They are repeatedly evicted, living in abandoned buildings or under the bridges, sent to treatment by law enforcement directly to New Horizons Inpatient mental health or substance abuse units, or repeatedly jailed for misdemeanor offenses . Once released, since they reside in camps in the woods they do not have a home to return to . New Horizons has been a key provider of supportive services in the successful S+C programs including Indian River and Martin county and is assisting St . Lucie County in developing it ' s first Shelter Plus Care Program .