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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement and all necessary documents, subcontracts, and any subsequent amendments, with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, to receive and expend $1,335,000 for the Unsheltered Homeless Services Enhancement Program, for an estimated period of November 1, 2022 through October 31, 2025, with the option to renew for an additional three-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager; and
Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $1,335,000, offset by grant revenues. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Since 1990, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Foundation) has worked with community advocates, nonprofits, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California, other foundations, and the private sector to identify solutions to chronic homelessness in Los Angeles.
The Foundation’s focus is to prioritize populations at the greatest risk of long-term homelessness, emphasize permanent housing and services, make systems and services people-centered and share best practices and lessons learned with other cities. Their approach works to reduce inequity, making both short-term and permanent housing easy to access, affordable and built for individuals’ specific needs as they experience homelessness.
On August 22, 2022, the City of Long Beach (City) was notified that the Foundation was awarding the City $1,335,000, under application # 28815. The Health and Human Services Department (Health Department) will utilize the grant funds to provide therapy and counseling to people on the streets, with the goal of improving mental health and substance use resources and services connections. Additionally, the funding will also provide moving assistance for people experiencing homelessness and to procure a vehicle for the program.
The Foundation’s grant will augment the Health Department’s Encampment Resolution Funding, a State program established to assist local ...
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