Human Services Programs Of Carroll County Inc

Programs: The emergency & prevention program provides assistance for low income carroll county residents who are faced with any number of situations that could result in homelessness and/or lack of basic needs that affect the individual or family's ability to maintain self-sufficiency. These services include: home energy services and community resource services. The number of clients served under these services for the year ended june 30, 2017 are as follows: home energy services: 497 households, 1,391 individuals community resource services: 292 households, 632 individuals office of home energy programs: 2,147 households

homeless services: emergency shelter programs, which include the women & children's, men's, and intake family shelters provide a safe, clean place for homeless individuals or families to live on a full-time basis. Each shelter provides food preparation facilities (some provide food), laundry facilities, telephone, and mail service to residents for up to 84 nights. The shelters provide case management and supportive services to each resident that link the resident to education, employment, entitlement, community, and faith- based resources. Safe haven is housing for homeless adults with a serious mental illnesses. This shelter provides food preparation facilities (some meals are provided), laundry facilities, telephone, and mail service to residents with no time limit on their length of stay. This program provides case management and supportive services to each resident that link the resident to mental health, health care, educational, employment, entitlement, community, and faith-based resources. The goal of the program is to help residents move on to permanent housing. The cold weather shelter is open from november 15 through march 31 open each evening at 7pm through 7am and serves homeless adults who are living outdoors. This shelter has food preparation facilities. Volunteers bring dinner each night. There are laundry facilities and telephone and mail services available to residents. Some residents stay for one or two nights, some utilize the shelter all season. In the 2017 fiscal year: women and children's shelter served 60 women and 34 children family shelter served 39 adults and 46 children men's shelter served 39 men safe haven served 46 adults cold weather shelter served 188 adults permanent supportive housing program for persons with disabilities: hsp provides housing and case management services to formerly homeless adults through this program. Hsp's program has funds for apartments - 14 for chronically homeless disabled adults, one for a u. S. Veteran, one for a non-chronically homeless disabled adult, and for one homeless family with a disabled head of household. Hsp leases these apartments and pays the entire rent. Each participant pays an occupancy charge not to exceed 30% of their adjusted income. Participants are responsible to pay for their own utilities unless they are included with the rent. Case management is provided on a monthly, or more frequent, basis depending on need. Participants are encouraged and assisted to use all available mainstream resources. The main goal of this program is for residents to remain housed and eventually exit the program permanently housed and connected to the community services they need. In the 2017 fiscal year, 17 formerly homeless individuals were served in this program, 7 were children. The rapid rehousing program: hsp assists homeless families to locate and lease rental apartments. Eligible families will receive up to 12 months of rental stipends for the rental allowance program that the department of citizen services pays directly to their landlords. Hsp also administers funds from the emergency solutions grants to pay rental stipends directly to landlords on behalf of families served. Monthly or more frequent case management is provided by hsp staff to meet the residents' needs. Case management includes assistance with budgeting, applying for mainstream resources, and identifying each family's individual goals. In the 2017 fiscal year, utilizing rap, service linked, and esg funds households containing 53 adults and 67 children were served. The primary goals of this program are to rapidly re-house homeless families, assist these households to remain stably house and, by exit, have them be more self-sufficient and engaged with appropriate community resources.

family support: the carroll county family center provides support services to parents and their children under four years of age. A priority is to assist parents in making sure that all their children are healthy physically, developmentally, and emotionally. This is accomplished through a variety of activities and services, including immunization checks, developmental screenings, parent/child activities, and quality child developmental care while parents engage in support programming at the center. The family center supports parents through programs designed to increase parenting effectiveness and self sufficiency skills. The parenting class utilizes the research-based curriculum, "the nurturing program. ", "the chicago parenting plan", "parents as teachers", and "abc: attachment and bio-behavioral catch-up". Self-sufficiency services include adult education classes in ged preparation, esl, computer literacy, and job readiness. Other center-based services include: case management, health classes, a parent leadership program, cooking classes, and peer support activities. In addition to these center-based services, the family center also offers a home visiting program. Our in-home interventionist is trained in the "parents as teachers- and "abc" curricula, and provides these programs as well as case management to families in their own homes. Services are provided free of charge, and transportation is provided within a 12 mile radius to assist families in accessing center services. In the 2017 fiscal year, 42 families participated in center-based activities and 20 families received home visit services.

workforce development programming provides integrated employment and training, financial education, and long term case management services to help people believe in themselves and their future. Workforce development programming encompasses opportunity works, the community garden, and financial education services. Opportunity works offers a unique blend of hands-on job training, job readiness assistance, and long term case management support services to help participants gain and maintain competitive employment. In fy 17 opportunity works served 124 individuals: 96% had a significant barrier to employment; 94% did not commit a crime during the program year; 85% mastered at least 5 skills; 70% resolved at least 2 barriers to employment; 65% maintained or increased their income through employment; and 80% maintained employment for 90 days or more. Opportunity works utilizes hsp's second chances, carroll county's only free store, and ebay business as training platforms for enrolled participants. In fy 17 second chances served 3,135 households. The community garden is a 7,800 square foot produce and herb garden centrally located in downtown westminster. 100% of the harvest directly benefits our low-income community. In fy 17 over 1,428 pounds of produce fed 718 households. Financial education includes workshops, ongoing coaching services, and volunteer income tax assistance site (vita) site, preparing free taxes for low to moderate income households. Financial education services help clients with budgeting, access to fair banking services, promotes savings, and encourages solid financial habits. In fy 17 78 clients attended 33 financial education workshops. Commencing in may, 9 participated in financial coaching services, 56% created a household budget, 100% maintained that budget for 30 days, 44% achieved a financial goal, paying down or debt or creating savings. Vita prepared 920 returns giving back over 1. 6 million dollars to our working poor community. Tay payers saved 10,000.