Burlington Supportive Housing Initiatives Inc

Programs: The helpfund is a collaborative effort of community service providers and organizations to consolidate assistance and information to more efficiently respond to the emergency needs of people in chittenden county who are at risk of losing their housing. Burlington supportive housing initiatives, inc. Was awarded a grant from the vt agency of human services in december 2017 (term is december 2017 june 2018) and was able to serve 1 household in 2017 with rent assistance, utilities, security deposit, and/or transportation to ensure homelessness was avoided. In 2017, helpfund had revenues of $12,500 and expenses of $1,200.

northern lights grant funding provided professional development for clinical staff at the northern lights program to become trained in dialectical behavior therapy (dbt). The funds covered a series of two trainings for staff serving the program and for ongoing coaching sessions for the women who live in the house/are part of the program to learn dbt skills development as well. In 2017, revenues for the northern lights grant were $0 and expenses were $2,725.

other programs:newmans own foundation granted bshi a series of grants over a three-year period to support homemaker services for seniors and people with disabilities and the summer lunch program expended the last of its award this year. The homemaker program served 1 resident in need with homemaker services. Newmans own also supported the summer lunch program, a partnership between the burlington parks and recreation department, burlington schools food service, and the burlington housing authority, to administer the recreation and nutrition summer drop-in programs at three of bhas low-income housing communities: franklin square, riverside apartments and bobbin mill apartments. The program enables low-income children to have summer access to nutritious meals and supervised programming and served over 145 burlington children in the summer of 2017. In 2017, newmans own foundation grant revenues were $0, and expenses were $5,000 for summer lunch and $168 for the homemaker program.