Exhibit B: FY 2021-2022 General Fund and American Rescue Plan Program Descriptions
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Exhibit B FY 2021-2022 General Fund and American Rescue Plan Program Descriptions and Funding Recommendations 1. A New Leaf, Inc. – Homeless Shelter Services Requested amount: $50,000 Recommendation: $50,000 A New Leaf provides shelter for individuals (East Valley Men’s Center) and families (La Mesita) experiencing homelessness. A New Leaf assists in securing appropriate housing options, employment, and support systems to address underlying factors, which ultimately leads to housing stability and independent living. 2. A New Leaf, Inc. – Safe Access to Domestic Violence Referral Hotline Requested amount: $15,000 Recommendation: $10,000 A New Leaf’s Safe Access to Domestic Violence Referral Hotline is a 24/7 hotline that provides intervention and referrals to individuals and families experiencing domestic violence. Services include immediate safety planning, needs assessment, coordination of safe exit and transportation. 3. About Care, Inc. – Empowering Independent Living Requested amount: $30,000 Recommendation: $30,000 About Care provides free services to Chandler residents who are elderly or disabled to assist them in remaining independent in their homes. Services, such as transportation, grocery shopping and errands, friendly visits, respite, reassurance phone calls, computer assistance, minor home repairs, case management, and information and referral are provided by trained volunteer. The program defrays the high cost of assisted living, reduces isolation, and assists with improving the mental and physical health of recipients. 4. About Care, Inc. – Senior Wellness Collaboration Requested amount: $25,000 Recommendation: $25,000 About Care, Inc. and Neighbors Who Care partner to provide follow-up support services to homebound seniors and persons who are disabled who have been recently discharged from medical facilities. Volunteers provide assisted transportation services and manage care to improve in-home recovery and meet basic needs, which decreases future need for emergency services and hospitalization. 5. Arizona Burn Foundation – Early Childhood Burn Prevention and Fire Safety Education Program Requested amount: $10,000 Recommendation: $10,000 The Early Childhood Burn Prevention and Fire Safety Education Program focuses on teaching children how to be aware of items in-and-around the home that could cause a serious burn injury and important fire safety education rules. The program incorporates K-2 Arizona College & Career Ready State Standards for both safety education and literacy education. Students receive an activity book, parent guide, fire escape plan, and resources to help further educate parents on fire safety and what to do in case of an accident or emergency in English or Spanish. 6. AZCEND – Chandler Food Bank Basic Needs Program Requested amount: $55,000 Recommendation: $55,000 AZCEND’s Chandler Food Bank responds to food insecurity and hunger for individuals and families in need through the provision of emergency and supplemental food. Emergency food boxes contain enough nutritious food for at least nine meals per family member and ,are tailored to the unique needs of household members whenever possible. Supplemental food includes fresh/perishable food and can be accessed weekly. 7. AZCEND – Community Action Program Requested amount: $187,500 Recommendation: $187,500 AZCEND's Community Action Program (CAP) provides safety net programming to Chandler residents with low-income facing a financial crisis. The program provides intake/eligibility services, referrals, financial education, case management, and direct financial assistance for eviction and disconnection prevention. The goal is to provide short-term assistance to alleviate the immediate crisis and long-term support to help Chandler residents reach a higher level of stability. 8. AZCEND – Housing and Stability Specialist Requested amount: $48,000 Recommendation: $48,000 AZCEND’s Housing and Stability Specialist provides services to households experiencing homelessness. The Specialist assists households in locating appropriate housing and continues to support them after move-in as they stabilize and gain independence. Services include connection to education, training and employment services, health and behavioral health care, recovery services, veteran services, and income benefits. 9. AZCEND – Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging Program (I-HELP) Requested amount: $60,000 Recommendation: $60,000 AZCEND’s I-HELP provides emergency food and shelter to up to 25 single individuals experiencing homelessness in Chandler each night. The program operates through a collaboration of faith-based organizations in the East Valley that open their facilities to provide safe shelter and an evening meal on a rotating basis. AZCEND also provides intensive case management and supportive services to program participants to assist them in ending their homelessness. 10. AZCEND – Senior Nutrition Program Requested amount: $150,000 Recommendation: $150,000 AZCEND’s Senior Nutrition Program provides hot, nutritionally balanced meals to Chandler residents who are either elderly or disabled. Congregate meals are provided at the Chandler Senior Center in the dining room. There is also a meal delivery option for seniors who are homeboun. Participants who engage in the home delivered meal program also receive a wellness check to assess their general health and wellbeing. 11. AZCEND – TBRA Case Management Requested amount: $35,515 Recommendation: $40,000 AZCEND’s TBRA Case Manager provides intensive case management and support services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness who participate in the City of Chandler Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program (TBRA). The TBRA case manager facilitates participant’s transition into housing, helps them to stabilize and address the issues that led to their homelessness, and build independent living skills as they transition to permanency. 12. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona – Chandler Mentoring Programs Requested amount: $15,000 Recommendation: $15,000 Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Mentoring Program provides school-based mentoring services to low-income, at-risk youth, in grades 2 through 6, at San Marcos Elementary School in Chandler and at ICAN. Matches (youth and mentors) meet during their lunch hour once per week and participate in leadership development activities on the school grounds. Mentors provide guidance to youth as it relates to school and home. 13. Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley – Safe, Healthy and Successful Kids Program Requested amount: $100,000 Recommendation: $55,000 The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley’s (BGCV) Chandler Branch provides structured, purposeful, and fun after-school and summer activities to vulnerable youth residing in Chandler zip codes 85224, 85225, and 85226 to assist them in becoming productive, caring, and responsible citizens. BGCV promotes a sense of belonging, academic success, healthy lifestyles, good character, and citizenship to improve graduation rates and discourage risky behaviors. 14. Catholic Charities Community Services, Inc. – My Sister’s Place: Family-Based Healing for Survivors of Domestic Requested amount: $25,000 Recommendation: $25,000 My Sister’s Place is a 30-bed facility that offers a safe, home-like environment for victims of domestic violence. My Sister’s Place provides emergency shelter and a range of supportive services that promote client independence, well-being and goal achievement. My Sister’s Place also operates a 24/7 crisis hotline to provide immediate support, information, and referral. 15. CeCe’s Hope Center – Trauma Informed Services for Trafficking Survivors Requested amount: $15,000 Recommendation: $105000 CeCe’s Hope Center serves women aged 18-24 who are survivors of sex trafficking. The program provides women with multidimensional care and resources to address severe trauma and medical issues, basic daily needs and securing housing. All participants are interviewed to assess their readiness and current situation to establish a holistic plan that helps support their journey to self-sufficiency. 16. Central Arizona Shelter Services, Inc. – Shelter and Supportive Services for Chandler Residents Requested amount: $35,000 Recommendation: $ -0- Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS) Single Adult Shelter serves individuals experiencing homelessness throughout Maricopa County with 350 beds for men and 120 beds for women. In addition to providing shelter, CASS clients have access to case management services and housing opportunities. 17. Chandler CARE Center Children’s Medical and Dental Clinic – Chandler Children’s Medical Clinic and Building Blocks for Children Requested amount: $123,061.05 Recommendation: $125,000.00 The Chandler Children’s Medical Clinic collaborates with Dignity Health Building Blocks for Children (BBC), providing no-cost medical care to uninsured youth who otherwise may be unable to access care. The Clinic works with volunteer licensed medical providers, providing examinations, diagnostics, and treatment of minor illness and injury including chronic and co-occurring disorders such as ADHD and Asthma. BBC provides access to hearing and vision screening, free glasses, and referrals. 18. Chandler Cultural Foundation – Connecting Kids Requested amount: $10,000 Recommendation: $10,000 The Vision Gallery’s Connecting Kids program provides visual arts, musical theatre, and performance arts training at no cost to youth ages 6 to 18 years of age. The program is intended to supplement and, in some cases, replace arts programs that have been reduced or eliminated in the public schools. 19. Chandler Gilbert Arc – Employment Program Requested amount: $21,334 Recommendation: $15,000 Chandler Gilbert Arc’s Employment Program provides individuals who are intellectually and/or developmentally disabled continuous and intermittent support to maintain their existing work and social skills. Many of the clients served receive their social experience through their relationships and interactions with Chandler Gilbert Arc peers and staff. 20. Child Crisis Arizona – Fostering Homeless Children Requested amount: $12,000 Recommendation: $12,000 The Child Crisis Arizona Fostering Homeless Children Program recruits, trains, licenses and monitors foster homes for the benefit of children experiencing homelessness in the child welfare system. Foster parents provide daily care, supervision, and nurturance for children placed in their homes. Child Crisis Arizona monitors the placement of those children to ensure their safety and assess issues or needs that might arise as the parents integrate the child into the family structure. 21. Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Inc. – Victim Services Requested amount: $10,000 Recommendation: $10,000 Chrysalis Victim Services provides crucial support to adult and child victims of domestic abuse, including residents of Chandler. Services include: (1) Emergency Shelter, including basic needs, counseling, referrals, and support groups; (2) Transitional Housing, including case management, referrals, and support services; (3) Outpatient Counseling for adults and kids; and (4) Victim Advocacy, including court accompaniment. 22. Community Bridges, Inc. – Community Court Navigator Requested amount: $68,750 Recommendation: $-0- Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI) provides a navigator, which connects individuals experiencing homelessness who have open court cases to services to help end their homelessness. This may include assistance accessing shelter or detox, applying for benefits, and locating housing services. CBI’s navigator’s use evidence-based practices including housing first, harm reduction, motivational interviewing and assertive outreach. 23. Community Bridges, Inc. – Mobile Community Outreach and Crisis Stabilization Requested amount: $10,000 Recommendation: $10,000 Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI) provides mobile community outreach and substance use/behavioral health related crisis stabilization services to persons who are homeless, indigent, or working poor. As a “No Wrong Door Agency”, police, fire, hospitals, urgent psychiatric centers, crisis mobile teams, and the general public can bring individuals to CBI’s facilities when they present with a substance use/behavioral health emergency. Mobile community outreach teams are available 24/7 to respond to the crisis needs of Chandler residents. 24. Desert Sounds Performing Arts, Inc. – Chandler Mariachi and Jeremy Project Requested amount: $15,000 Recommendation: $15,000 Desert Sounds Performing Arts, Inc.’s Jeremy Project provides musical instruments and ancillary supplies to children of Chandler families with low-income who would not otherwise be able to participate in their school band/orchestra program. Secondary populations are schools that no longer have the budget for musical instruments. Chandler Mariachi program helps connect students to their community by connecting them to traditional mariachi instruction using authentic instruments and instrumentation. 25. Dignity Health Foundation East Valley – Chandler Children’s Dental Clinic Requested amount: $158,884 Recommendation: $160,000 Dignity Health and the Chandler CARE Center work collaboratively to provide preventive and restorative dental services to low-income and uninsured youth at the Chandler CARE Center clinic and to provide oral health education to children and adults in the community. Dignity Health offers preventive dental services including examinations, prophylaxis (cleaning), x- rays, sealants, fluoride varnish, and education at the clinic. 26. East Valley Jewish Community Center – Children from Single Parent Homes with Low Income Requested amount: $75,000 Recommendation: $75,000 East Valley Jewish Community Center (East Valley JCC) provides a high-quality educational experience for children through curriculum focused on the emotional development of the child, and techniques to help prevent social isolation and help keep children feeling involved in their community and at home. The center focuses on each child’s ability to reach the next level of development in all areas - cognitive, fine motor, large motor, creative, social- emotional. 27. East Valley Jewish Community Center – JBox Seniors in Need Requested amount: $30,000 Recommendation: $10,000 East Valley Jewish Community Center (East Valley JCC) provides weekly opportunities for community among seniors along with a kosher meal. With the impact of COVID-19 East Valley JCC identified three main senior needs: human interaction while sheltering-in place, learning within their community, and cognitive engagement. JBox provides a well-balanced, fresh and varied menu from the East Valley JCC kosher kitchen. These meals are prepared and delivered to homebound seniors. 28. East Valley Jewish Community Center – Youth in Crisis Requested amount: $25,000 Recommendation: $25,000 East Valley Jewish Community Center (East Valley JCC) provides a fun, peer-based program for youth from low-income families. East Valley JCC employs counselors who promote a strong emotional connection so that youth are prepared for what is to come. Participants will be able to engage with other children their age and communicate their needs in socially appropriate ways. 29. EMPACT Suicide Prevention Center – Senior Peer Counseling Requested amount: $11,800 Recommendation: $11,800 The Senior Peer Counseling Program meets the emotional needs of older adults through peer support to address loneliness, depression, or difficult transitions. Availability of mental health funding for older adults is extremely limited. The Senior Peer Counseling Program is a cost-effective way for seniors to access needed services in a setting that is comfortable and non-threatening. The program reaches seniors who would not otherwise get help. 30. FANS Across America Charitable Foundation – FANS Diaper Bank Requested amount: $30,000 Recommendation: $35,000 FANS Across America provides basic daily living necessities allowing families to use their limited financial resources for priorities such as food and shelter. FANS Across America serves families experiencing homelessness in transition, students experiencing homelessness, and victims of domestic violence who are referred by local community partners. FANS Diaper Bank provides up to a five-to-seven-day emergency supply of diapers so that families can provide a new diaper at every change. 31. FANS Across America Charitable Foundation – FANS Locker Room Requested amount: $30,000 Recommendation: $30,000 FANS Across America provides basic daily living necessities allowing families to use their limited financial resources for priorities such as food and shelter. FANS Across America serves families experiencing homelessness in transition, students experiencing homelessness, and victims of domestic violence who are referred by school districts or partner social services organizations. The Locker Room is stocked with daily living essentials such as clean clothing, school uniforms, undergarments, shoes, socks, personal, and dental hygiene items, backpacks filled with grade appropriate school supplies, consumable paper goods, and household items such as linens, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, dishes, and pots and pans. 32. ICAN: Positive Programs for Youth – ICAN Out of School Time Programs Requested amount: $100,000 Recommendation: $100,000 ICAN offers the Recreation Program as an important element of its year-round services for youth. The program teaches kids health and nutrition awareness, encourages physical activity and fitness, and promotes self-awareness, confidence, and positive life choices. Program activities are offered in age-specific groups and include multi-cultural/multi-media arts; tutoring; homework help and other skill enrichment classes; curriculum-based structured sports, games, and physical activity; free play; and monthly community service projects. 33. Junior Achievement of Arizona – JA BizTown and BizTown Adventures Requested amount: $30,000 Recommendation: $30,000 Junior Achievement's BizTown and JA BizTown Adventures programs provide financial literacy, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurial education to Chandler's students. The intent of the programs is to increase students' problem solving and critical thinking skills; introduce students to various career paths and industries; and provide students with a specific understanding of economic concepts, financial literacy skills and work readiness fundamentals. 34. Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank – Emergency Food Assistance Requested amount: $20,000 Recommendation: $20,000 Matthew’s Crossing Emergency Food Assistance Program provides individuals and families in need of hunger relief with approximately six to eight days of food. More than 56% of those served are Chandler residents who reside in the 85224 or 85225 zip codes. The food assistance program provides an individual or family with one Emergency Food Box a month, and up to three Holiday Food Boxes and Meals to Grow backpacks/food closets/snack packs. 35. Mesa United Way – Chandler VITA Program Requested amount: $20,000 Recommendation: $20,000 The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program provides free tax preparation services to low- and medium-income individuals and families in the Chandler community. The program is a federally sponsored, administered, and monitored by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In partnership with the Mesa United Way, the City of was able to expand its program from four sites to seven sites, while providing year-round tax preparation assistance. 36. Midwest Food Bank – Arizona Division – Emergency Food Box Program Requested amount: $40,000 Recommendation: $40,000 Midwest Food Bank – Arizona Division’s Emergency Food Box program, in coordination with its fifteen partnering organizations, offers over 5,000 pre-packaged emergency food boxes to low-income, food insecure children, families, and elderly annually. 37. Mission of Mercy – Basic Health Care Needs for Chandler Residents Requested amount: $15,000 Recommendation: $15,000 Mission of Mercy makes health care accessible to low-income, uninsured families residing in Chandler. All patients receive primary health care, necessary prescription medications, personalized health education, and referrals to specialty and/or community services needed to improve quality of life. 38. Neighbors Who Care, Inc. – Aging in Place Requested amount: $15,000 Recommendation: $10,000 Neighbors Who Care, Inc. (NWC) provides a safety net to elderly homebound, disabled, and/or frail Chandler residents, enabling them to remain healthier, less isolated, and continue to live independently in their own homes. NWC's eleven different non-medical assistive services (medical transportation, dinner delivery, minor repairs, business assistance, reassurance calling, caregiver respite, shopping/errands, van service, friendly visiting, business advocacy, and welfare visiting) are provided through volunteers. 39. notMYkid, Inc. – Young Mental Health Collective Requested amount: $25,000 Recommendation:$25,000 notMYkid, Inc.’s Suicide Safer Chandler provides students, parents, and school faculty in Chandler the tools needed to recognize risk factors associated with suicide and an awareness of suicide prevention resources available in the community. Young Mental Health Collective will reach 2,750 Chandler youth, parents and school staff through a combination of depression/suicide and anxiety/stress prevention education presentations during the 2021/2022 school year. 40. One Small Step, Inc. – Clothes Cabin and Homeless Services Requested amount: $35,000 Recommendation: $35,000 One Small Step’s Emergency Clothing Bank distributes free clothing, shoes, and linens three times a week to individuals and families with no or low income who cannot afford to buy what they need. One Small Step also provides steel-toed boots to individuals who need them to get or keep a job. Program participants are referred by local nonprofits. Clients experiencing homelessness clients are able to utilize the free laundry service and may reserve a locker for personal items for six months. 41. Read On Chandler – Kith and Kin Project Requested amount: $33,372 Recommendation: $10,000 Read On Chandler’s Kith and Kin Project provides services to children and family, friend or neighbor (FNN) caregivers. Children that are cared for by FFN’s typically arrive to kindergarten unprepared in comparison to children who attend traditional preschool programs. Caregivers receive resources, materials, and information on topics such as child development, health and safety, positive guidance, navigating challenging behaviors, nutrition, language and literacy and home safety. 42. Recreation and Athletics for Individuals with Disabilities (RAD) – Payment Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Requested amount: $21,000 Recommendation: $21,000 RAD’s Payment Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities helps to pay the registration fees and purchase equipment and uniforms for low-income people with disabilities to participate in therapeutic sports offered by the City of Chandler’s Parks and Recreation Division. 43. Resurrection Street Ministry, Inc. – Driving Our Veterans 2021 Requested amount: $10,000 Recommendation: $10,000 Resurrection Street Ministry, Inc.’s Driving Our Veterans is a transportation program for veterans living in Chandler needing non-emergency rides to/from VA medical facilities or other critical appointments. All rides are provided free of charge to the veterans by Resurrection Street Ministry’s volunteer drivers. 44. Resurrection Street Ministry, Inc. – Feeding Our Chandler Neighbors 2021 Requested amount: $25,000 Recommendation: $25,000 The Feeding Our Chandler Neighbors program provides nutritional food boxes and other services, such as clothing and home necessity needs, to food insecure individuals, families, and group homes in Chandler. Mobile site distributions are conducted at eight to ten sites each month. Resurrection Street Ministry also provides food to small nonprofit organizations in Chandler that do not have the ability to pick up nutritional perishable foods with proper equipment (refrigerated trucks) or to store food until it is distributed. 45. The Salvation Army – Client Choice Food Pantry Requested amount: $15,000 Recommendation: $15,000 The Client Choice Food Pantry provides food security while allowing clients to select their own food. Clients are issued points to shop at the pantry based on their household size. Food items are assigned a point value, with healthier items having a lower point value to encourage positive food choices. Food choice allows clients to meet dietary restrictions and preferences and choose foods they can use and prepare at home. 46. The Salvation Army – Rental Assistance for Chandler Residents in Crisis Requested amount: $20,000 Recommendation: $20,000 The Salvation Army Chandler Corps offers rental, utility, and mortgage assistance to prevent Chandler residents from losing their home and avoid homelessness. Case management services are also provided to re-stabilize the household. The program targets low- and moderate-income Chandler households with children, who are faced with an unforeseen financial crisis. 47. The Salvation Army – Youth Programming Requested amount: $20,000 Recommendation: $20,000 The Kids Club, an after-school program to meet the needs of Chandler families, especially those with low-to-moderate income, after the school day ends. The program promotes positive socialization, reduces risky behavior, and provides a safe environment to play and increase academic achievement before their parent(s) or guardians return home in the evening. 48. Si Se Puede Foundation – STEM and Vocational Training Requested amount: $50,000 Recommendation: $50,000 The Si Se Puede Foundation (SSPF) Makerspace facility will house SSPF robotics and expand educational opportunities to include vocational skill set training for students pursuing a trade, craft or profession. The SSPF STEM program provides paths to higher education, STEM degrees, and careers in high-tech and manufacturing fields. The addition of vocational training will provide youth and community members interested in pursuing employment in the trades industry. 49. United Food Bank – Emergency and Supplemental Food Assistance Program Requested amount: $10,000 Recommendation: $10,000 United Food Bank’s Emergency and Supplemental Food Assistance (ESFA) Program improves the health, well-being and food security of people with low income, persons experiencing homelessness, and otherwise disadvantaged youth and adults residing in Chandler. Food is distributed five days per week to Chandler and other community partners. This distributed food is used to assemble emergency food boxes, to prepare congregate meals, to prepare meals and/or snacks for children, to provide backpacks to children at-risk of missing weekend meals, and to distribute through School Pantries. 50. Chandler Family YMCA – Chandler Family YMCA I-Learn Program Requested amount: $20,000 Recommendation: $20,000 The I-Learn Program is an alternative education program for secondary education students. I-Learn students earn the credits necessary to earn their high school diploma and tools and exposure to become successful in their next stage of life. Programming includes job training and certifications, field trips to community college and/or technical institutions and other support to ensure students can access these programs after high school.