HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 6e. Consideration of 2024-25 Human Services Grant New Funding Recommendations from the HRC Item 6e
Department: Administration
Cost Center: 1010
For Agenda of: 7/16/2024
Placement: Consent
Estimated Time: N/A
FROM: Greg Hermann, Deputy City Manager
Prepared By: Nestor Veloz-Passalacqua, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager
SUBJECT: CONSIDERATION OF THE 2024-25 HUMAN SERVICES GRANT NEW
FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS
RECOMMENDATION
1. As recommended by the Human Relations Commission, approve the 2024 -25 Human
Services Grant funding allocations in the amount of $150,000 based on City Council’s
direction provided May 21, 2024; and
2. Authorize the Interim City Manager to execute agreements with each grant recipient.
POLICY CONTEXT
The Human Relations Commission’s (HRC) purpose is to advise and make
recommendations to City Council and the City Manager which promote and advance
inclusion, mutual understanding, respect, and equitable treatment to all members of the
SLO City Community. The Human Relations Commission’s recommendations to City
Council for the Human Services Grant (HSG) program achieves this purpose by providing
financial support to non-profit organizations that promote the economic and social
wellbeing of the residents of San Luis Obispo.
DISCUSSION
Background
The City’s Human Services Grants (HSG), formerly known as Grants-in-Aid, was
originally discussed, and approved by City Council on November 14, 1973, through a
study session providing authority and responsibility to HRC for funding and contract
recommendations for Council consideration. The HSG program is fully funded by the
City’s General Fund. The HSG had a Council approved change of name in 2022 to better
reflect the objectives of the grant program. Grants are made to local organizations or
agencies based in neighboring communities whose services contribute to the economic
and social wellbeing of the residents of San Luis Obispo through identified priorities. The
Human Relations Commission (HRC) advises the City Council on those funding priorities
and grant recommendations.
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Funding Priorities
On November 16, 2021, the Council adopted the following as the primary funding priority
for the HSG:
Homelessness prevention, including affordable and alternative housing,
support services and transitional housing.
To allow maximum flexibility for funding recommendations dependent upon the received
applications, the following priorities were also approved but were not ranked:
Hunger and malnutrition prevention.
Supportive physical and mental health services for those in need.
Services for seniors, veterans and/or people with disabilities in need.
Supportive, developmental, and care services for children and youth in need.
Services encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusivity in marginalized.
HSG Application Process
In January 22, 2024, the HRC formally launched its annual HSG process by advertising
the availability of grant funds and information regarding the upcoming HSG timeline to the
general public, past applicants and agencies and groups from underserved and
underrepresented communities through the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(DEI). HSG applications were due on March 1, 2024. The City received grant applications
from 37 agencies requesting funding for programs totaling $495,243. Attachment A
includes a complete list of the applications, including a summary of each project submitted
to the City for HSG funding. The HRC’s Grant Review Subcommittee reviewed the
applications and provided funding recommendations to the full HRC.
HRC Review Process
On March 12 and 19, 2024, the HSG Grant Review Subcommittee met to review grant
applications and make preliminary funding recommendations. The subcommittee
members considered the funding priorities set by Council, the location of the target
population to be served, and the incurred expenses proposed to be offset by HSG dollars
to guide their funding recommendations.
The HRC held a regular meeting April 3, 2024, which included a noticed public hearing
about the HSG program and its final funding recommendations . During this process, the
Grant Review Subcommittee provided its preliminary recommendations to the entire
HRC, which was followed by public comment and deliberation. Upon completion of the
HRC deliberation, the entire commission voted in providing a recommendation to City
Council.
The 2024-25 Human Services Grant final recommendations were presented to the City
Council at the May 21, 2024 meeting. Council referred the grant funding
recommendations back to HRC with direction to first fund all qualified applications that
meet the homelessness prevention primary funding priority, and then, after qualified
homelessness prevention applications are funded, the Commission should consider
applications for the additional priorities.
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On May 29, 2024, the HRC held a special meeting to review the grant applications and
provide revised funding recommendations considering the City Council’s direction and
guidance. Attachment B includes a complete list of the applications, a summary of each
project, and HRC’s new final funding recommendations.
Organization Project or
Program
Reqd.
Amount
Previous HRC
Grant Review
Subcommittee
Recommended
Amounts
Previous HRC
Recommended
Amounts
New Final HRC
Recommended
Amounts
1 5 Cities Homeless
Coalition
Homeless
Prevention &
Rapid Re-
Housing
$20,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000
2
Big Brothers Big
Sisters of San Luis
Obispo County
Mentoring to
Help
Disadvantage
d Youth Meet
their Full
Potential
$10,000 $0 $0 $0
3 CASA of San Luis
Obispo County, Inc.
General SLO
CASA
Program
Support
$20,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000
4 City Farm
2025 Youth
Empowerme
nt Program
$15,000 $6,974 $8,948 $0
5
Community Action
Partnership of SLO
County
Homeless
Prevention/St
able Housing
Services
$10,000 $10,000 $0 $10,000
6
Community Action
Partnership of SLO
County
Families in
Transition
(FIT)
$10,000 $0 $0 $5,000
7 Community
Counseling Center
Sharing the
Therapeutic
Space:
Professional
and
Affordable
Psychotherap
y Options for
Underprivileg
ed
Populations
in the City of
San Luis
Obispo
$5,000 $0 $0 $0
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8 Corazon Latino
Support
Groups -
Corazon
Latino
Central Coast
$20,000 $0 $0 $0
9 Diversity Coalition
BIPOC Board
Leadership
Training
Program
$10,000 $0 $0 $0
10 Family Matters
Consulting
Circle of
Security -
Prevention
Program
$15,000 $0 $0 $0
11 Food Bank of SLO
County
No-Cook
Bags for SLO
County
Residents
Experiencing
Homelessnes
s
$20,000.
00 $0 $0 $0
12 Hospice of SLO
County
Caregiver
Support and
Grief
Counseling
$20,000 $0 $0 $0
13 Housing Authority
San Luis Obispo
Housing
Stability with
Supportive
Housing
Program
$20,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000
14 Independent Living
Resource Center
Disability
Rights and
Cultural
Awareness in
San Luis
Obispo
$8,691 $0 $0 $0
15 Jack's Helping
Hand
Assistance
for Single
Mothers of
Children with
Special
Needs in the
City of San
Luis Obispo
$10,000 $0 $5,000 $0
16
Jewish Family
Services of San
Luis Obispo
Homeless
Support
Services
$7,300 $7,300 $7,300 $7,300
17 Literacy for Life The Literacy
Program $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000
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18
Long Term Care
Ombudsman
Services of San
Luis Obispo County
Ombudsman
Services $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000
19 Lumina Alliance
Emergency
Shelter
Program for
Sexual
Assault and
Intimate
Partner
Violence
Survivors
$20,000 $0 $10,000 $20,000
20 One Cool Earth
Garden
Education
Program
$5,000 $0 $0 $0
21 PathPoint
Independent
Living
Technology
for People
with I/DD
$15,000 $0 $0 $0
22
People's Self-Help
Housing
Corporation
SLO
Supportive
Housing
Program for
Low-Income
Households
$20,000 $0 $0 $0
23
Pregnancy and
Parenting Support
of SLO County
Nurture SLO
Families $15,000 $0 $0 $0
24 RACE MATTERS
SLO Shop Talk $10,000 $0 $0 $0
25 Restorative
Partners, Inc.
Opportunity
to Fund $10,000 $6,974 $0 $10,000
26
San Luis Obispo
Child Development
Resource Center
Child and
Family Play
Therapy
Program
$10,000 $0 $0 $0
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27
San Luis Obispo
Committee for
Education on
Alcoholism, dba
Middle House
Alumni
Housing $6,250 $6,250 $6,250 $6,250
28
San Luis Obispo
Committee for
Education on
Alcoholism, dba
Middle House
Homeless
Prevention $5,600 $5,600 $5,600 $5,600
29
San Luis Obispo
County Bicycle
Coalition, dba Bike
SLO County
Cycling
Without Age $5,500 $0 $0 $0
30
San Luis Obispo
Legal Assistance
Foundation
Senior Legal
Services $20,000 $0 $0 $0
31 Senior Nutrition
Program
Meals that
Connect $15,000 $7,500 $7,500 $7,500
32 Shower the People Shower the
People $20,000 $20,000 $20,000 $20,000
33 SLO County
UndocuSupport
Direct
Housing Aid
for Immigrant
Families
$7,442 $7,442 $7,442 $7,442
34 SLO Noor
Foundation
Whole
Community
Care Project
$20,000 $0 $0 $0
35 Smart Share
Housing Solutions
Community
Housing
Provisions/H
omeless
Prevention
$14,460 $5,960 $5,960 $5,908
36 Transitions Mental
Health Association
Growing
Grounds
Downtown
$20,000 $10,000 $10,000 $0
37 United Way of San
Luis Obispo
Community -
Driven
Initiative in
San Luis
Obispo:
Preventing
Poverty and
Building a
Sustainable
Community
$20,000 $11,000 $11,000 $0
$495,243 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000
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Grant Contracts
Upon Council approval of HSG funding recommendations, the City will enter into a
contract with each organization that has been awarded grant funding. The HRC and the
City staff will review grant project reports throughout the year. Organizations awarded
grant funding are required to provide a mid-year and year-end report describing
administrative functions, metrics and outcomes, and use of funds related to the
application for each grant program. Reports are reviewed by staff and the HRC for
completeness and compliance.
Public Engagement
The public, and more specifically non-profit service organizations, were engaged
throughout the HSG award process. Non-profit service organizations received
communication of available funding, an informational session provid ed in English and
Spanish available in the Office of DEI website, technical assistance during the application
period, a detailed grant web application outlining funding criteria, and how to access
support from staff. This item was originally presented on the consent agenda for the May
21, 2024, City Council meeting and followed all required postings and notifications.
An email notification was provided to all HSG applicants inviting them to attend the HRC
special meeting on May 29, 2024.
This item is on the consent agenda for the July 16, 2024, City Council meeting and
followed all required postings and notifications. The public can also submit comments on
this item at or before the meeting.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environmental Quality Act does not apply to the recommended action in
this report, because the action does not constitute a “Project” under CEQA Guidelines
Sec. 15378.
FISCAL IMPACT
Budgeted: Yes Budget Year: 2024-25
Funding Identified: Yes
Fiscal Analysis:
Funding
Sources
Total Budget
Available
Current
Funding
Request
Remaining
Balance
Annual
Ongoing
Cost
General Fund $150,000 $150,000 $ $
State
Federal
Fees
Other:
Total $150,000 $150,000 $0 $
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As adopted in the 2023-2025 Financial Plan and FY 2024-25 Supplemental Budget, the
allocated 2024-2025 budget for the HSG program was $150,000. HSG projects will be
implemented for a period of one year starting at the beginning of the 2024 -2025 Fiscal
Year.
ALTERNATIVES
1. The Council may modify the proposed grant funding amounts. The Council
should provide direction on the modifications desired and adopt the revised
allocations.
2. The Council may return the matter back to the HRC again for further
consideration of the funding recommendations. In this case, it is recommended
that Council provide additional direction to the HRC regarding its consideration of the
funding recommendations.
ATTACHMENTS
A - 2024-25 Human Services Grant Applications, Subcommittee Preliminary Funding,
and Previous HRC Funding Recommendations.
B - 2024-25 Human Services Grant New Final Funding Recommendations
C - 05-29-2024 Special HRC Meeting Minutes
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2024-25 Human Services Grant Applications, Subcommittee Preliminary Funding, and Previous HRC Funding Recommendations.
Organization Project or
Program Description of Project/Program Requested
Amount
Previous HRC
Grant Review
Subcommittee
Recommended
Amounts
Previous HRC
Recommended
Amounts
1 5 Cities Homeless
Coalition
Homeless
Prevention &
Rapid Re-
Housing
This program provides wrap-around services
including case management and direct financial
assistance with a special emphasis on the housing
support program. It will ensure services are low-
barrier and accessible and assist them to resolve
their housing crisis before focusing on other non-
housing related services. The use of the funds will be
for rental assistance and relocation stabilization (staff
& application fees and deposit).
$20,000 $10,000 $10,000
2
Big Brothers Big
Sisters of San
Luis Obispo
County
Mentoring to
Help
Disadvantaged
Youth Meet
their Full
Potential
This program provides professional caseworkers to
pair and sustain mentoring relationships for
disadvantaged youth residing SLO. Caseworkers
(bilingual) will screen, train, pair with a mentor,
support, assess, and provide referrals to address
physical, mental health, and developmental service
needs, including connections to hunger prevention
programs. The funds will be used for local
government/schools and for staff salaries.
$10,000 $0 $0
3
CASA of San Luis
Obispo County,
Inc.
General SLO
CASA Program
Support
This program advocates for the best interests of
abused and neglected children within the court
system. CASA recruits, trains, and supervises
volunteers who advocate for this vulnerable
population with the goal of ensuring that each and
every child grows up in a safe, nurturing, and
permanent home. The funds will be used for rent and
utilities.
$20,000 $10,000 $10,000
4 City Farm 2025 Youth
Empowerment
Program
This program supports the Summer of 2025, City
Farm SLO’s Youth Empowerment Program (YEP)
will provide 1,500 individual instruction hours to 35
teens. 5,000 pounds of produce will be delivered to
the SLO Food Bank as a result of programming,
impacting thousands of residents. The funds will be
used for two facilitators, a farmer, food and
beverage, tools and materials, and liability insurance.
$15,000 $6,974 $8,948
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5
Community
Action
Partnership of
SLO County
Homeless
Prevention/Sta
ble Housing
Services
This program will provide emergency financial
assistance to residents in households in SLO that
are at risk of being evicted and need help with a
rental payment, or who need support securing
housing with first month’s rent and/or a security
deposit. The funds will be used for financial
assistance payments and "indirect expenses @8%".
$10,000 $10,000 $0
6
Community
Action
Partnership of
SLO County
Families in
Transition (FIT)
This program is a long-standing program and
partnership with SLCUSD focused on supporting
homeless students and their families. This project is
intended to support 10 families with children (five
homeless, five at risk for eviction) enrolled in
SLCUSD that reside in the city. The funds will be
used for housing-related case management services
(described above) and direct financial support to
secure and maintain permanent housing for these
youth and their families.
$10,000 $0 $0
7
Community
Counseling
Center
Sharing the
Therapeutic
Space:
Professional
and Affordable
Psychotherapy
Options for
Underprivileged
Populations in
the City of San
Luis Obispo
This program supports the small collective of
volunteer therapists and coordinators of a flourishing
organization that serves thousands of low-income
residents, students, and unhoused individuals and
provides training opportunities to current and future
mental health professionals. The funds will be used
towards 3 salaries, telehealth annual fee,
rent/mortgage, and operating expenses.
$5,000 $0 $0
8 Corazon Latino
Support
Groups -
Corazon Latino
Central Coast
This program will have reoccurring focus groups
where marginalized communities will have access to
multiple agencies providing information and support
regarding homeless prevention, hunger and
malnutrition prevention, language services, and
physical/mental health services. It also aims to
provide childcare, food, and ongoing rotation of
partner agencies at these support groups. The funds
will be used towards 5 salaries and food & beverage.
$20,000 $0 $0
9 Diversity
Coalition
BIPOC Board
Leadership
Training
Program
This project supports the ongoing efforts of the
BIPOC Board Leadership program that conducts 2
trainings per year with 12-15 diverse BIPOC
participants, that is followed by board placement
assistance for BIPOC individuals with nonprofit
boards. It also supports their partnership with
$10,000 $0 $0
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Spokes in providing DEI trainings to agencies aiming
to diversify their boards. The funds will be used for
staff salary, training materials, and meals for cohort.
10 Family Matters
Consulting
Circle of
Security -
Prevention
Program
This program aims to address the systematic
injustices marginalized children experience in the
education system. This is done by addressing the
challenges by implementing evidence-based
interventions with Circle of Security focused on
promoting equity and inclusion in early childhood
education. The funds will be used for two facilitators
and one program coordinator who will provide
accessible support groups.
$15,000 $0 $0
11 Food Bank of SLO
County
No-Cook Bags
for SLO County
Residents
Experiencing
Homelessness
This program will provide continued funding for our
No-Cook Bags program, bags of portable foods
designed for homeless residents who do not have
access to a kitchen and cannot benefit from typical
Food Bank distribution items. This program has
proven to be very successful in the City of San Luis
Obispo, with approximately 1,500 No-Cook Bags
distributed each month to homeless residents of the
city to ensure access to nutritious meals. The funds
will be used to purchase food for program.
$20,000.0
0 $0 $0
12 Hospice of SLO
County
Caregiver
Support and
Grief
Counseling
This program is meant to offer a variety of services
to help keep home caregivers healthy and well as
they care for a loved one with a life-limiting
diagnosis. The funds for this program will be to
support the personnel costs associated with
sustaining the Caregiver Support and Grief
Counseling program so that they can meet the
community’s ongoing need for in-home caregiver
support and grief counseling services.
$20,000 $0 $0
13 Housing Authority
San Luis Obispo
Housing
Stability with
Supportive
Housing
Program
This program's objectives include housing stability,
transitioning from homelessness and rapid-rehoused
and evection prevention. The funds will be focused
on 4 areas including transportation, hunger,
transitional housing, and incentives and this program
intends to serve 1,099 residents in the city.
$20,000 $10,000 $10,000
14
Independent
Living Resource
Center
Disability
Rights and
Cultural
Awareness in
The program will focus on providing a series of
workshops to community members in two key areas
Workshop Focus #1: Advocacy Skill Development
and Workshop Focus #2: Disability Inclusion in the
Workplace, followed by a Disability Culture Night.
$8,691 $0 $0
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San Luis
Obispo The funds will be for workshop consultant, travel,
lodging, space, supplies, support, and access
accommodations.
15 Jack's Helping
Hand
Assistance for
Single Mothers
of Children with
Special Needs
in the City of
San Luis
Obispo
This program is designed to empower and enable
families, professionals, and the broader community
to meet the unique physical, mental, and medical
needs of special children and young adults under the
age of 21 within SLO County. There are currently 35
children receiving direct assisted, 54% of whom are
being cared for by a single or divorced parent. The
funds will be used for food gift cards, lodging for out-
of-town medical appointments, transportation/fuel
expenses, medical equipment, medical bills and
emergency needs.
$10,000 $0 $5,000
16
Jewish Family
Services of San
Luis Obispo
Homeless
Support
Services
This program will provide necessary support services
to the homeless population by offering services such
as: DMV registration, vehicle insurance, car repair,
and gas cards; additional needed assistance for
items such as: storage, food, impound fees,
propane, rent and deposits, medical and legal
expenses. The grant will be used for operating (90%
direct services) and administrative (10%) costs.
$7,300 $7,300 $7,300
17 Literacy for Life The Literacy
Program
This program's mission is to recruit and train
community members to become volunteer tutors to
work one-on-one with learners and guide them to set
and meet their individual literacy learning goal (s).
The goals can be as vary by the needs of the
student. The funds will be used for general operating
expenses.
$10,000 $10,000 $10,000
18
Long Term Care
Ombudsman
Services of San
Luis Obispo
County
Ombudsman
Services
This program has services for people who live in
long term care facilities (skilled nursing or residential
care facilities for the elderly) or who are seeking
information about facilities. Services include resident
advocacy, facility monitoring visits, complaint
investigations and resolution, information and
assistance, and systemic advocacy. The funds will
be used for staff salaries.
$5,000 $5,000 $5,000
19 Lumina Alliance
Emergency
Shelter
Program for
Sexual Assault
and Intimate
This program is the only agency on the Central
Coast that operates a rape crisis center and has
shelters that are consistently at capacity and receive
an ever-increasing number of requests for services
$20,000 $0 $10,000
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Partner
Violence
Survivors
and calls to the 24/7 Crisis & Information Line. The
funds will be used for utilities, equipment, repair, and
food to support general operating costs, as well as
any necessary repairs, for our shelters that arise.
20 One Cool Earth Garden
Education
Program
The project will support our programming at four (4)
SLO school gardens, providing year-long nutrition
learning for 1669 students. A Garden Educator is
provided to school campuses who teach a series of
108 seasonally aligned, hands-on, and standard-
based lessons per school per year. The Garden
Educator will also hold two (2) community garden
workdays and one family cooking night per school.
The funds will be used for educator wages, garden
supplies, and cooking supplies.
$5,000 $0 $0
21 PathPoint
Independent
Living
Technology for
People with
I/DD
This program will provide independent living
technology that will enable people with intellectual
disabilities and developmental disabilities served in
the Independent Living Services (ILS) and
Coordinated Family Supports (CFS) to learn the
skills necessary to retain stable housing, live
productive lives, and achieve maximum
independence. The funds will be used for smart
home hubs, automated medication dispensers,
tablets, visual alert systems, livescribe pens, smart
cooking devices, smart televisions, smartwatches,
and electric lift desks.
$15,000 $0 $0
22
People's Self-Help
Housing
Corporation
SLO
Supportive
Housing
Program for
Low-Income
Households
This program will provide an average of 16 hours of
service every week benefitting PSHH’s San Luis
Obispo residents. New residents receive information
about SHP services upon move-in from Residence
Managers, who live onsite. Managers also provide
additional outreach whenever a resident speaks to
them about a particular difficulty with which social
workers could assist.
$20,000 $0 $0
23
Pregnancy and
Parenting Support
of SLO County
Nurture SLO
Families
This program provides local families with emotional
support, practical assistance, and connections to
community resources from pregnancy through early
childhood. They offer free psychotherapy with trained
clinicians through partnership with Community
Counseling Center. The funds will be used for 3 staff
positions, rent, program supplies and staff training.
$15,000 $0 $0
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24 RACE MATTERS
SLO Shop Talk
This project seeks funds to support 12 monthly
programs centered on Black wellness and healing,
as well as wellness and healing for other
communities of color, through our program, “Shop
Talk,” which advances health equity and wellbeing
through clinician-led discussion groups. The funds
will be used for all costs (staff, honoraria, facility
rental, admin, cleaning, marking, food, and supplies.
$10,000 $0 $0
25 Restorative
Partners, Inc.
Opportunity to
Fund
These programs designed to assist individuals facing
financial barriers, mental health issues, and
substance abuse challenges as they reintegrate into
our community. This year, they expect to assist 80
individuals as they work to overcome homelessness,
unemployment, and stigma. The funds will be used
for client's emergency needs.
$10,000 $6,974 $0
26
San Luis Obispo
Child
Development
Resource Center
Child and
Family Play
Therapy
Program
This program will fund the therapy team in providing
additional counseling and rehabilitation services.
Grant funds will expand services, accommodating 20
additional therapy clients annually. The funds will be
used to provide 325 therapy hours and 8 hours of
professional development, focusing on cultural
competencies.
$10,000 $0 $0
27
San Luis Obispo
Committee for
Education on
Alcoholism, dba
Middle House
Alumni Housing
This project seeks to help clients of Middle House to
relocate to independent living after a satisfactory
stay at Middle House, which is difficult to find
housing due the extreme expense of pre-rental
requirements (i.e.., security deposit, first & last
months’ rent, etc.).
$6,250 $6,250 $6,250
28
San Luis Obispo
Committee for
Education on
Alcoholism, dba
Middle House
Homeless
Prevention
This project seeks to help clients of Middle House
with the opportunity to continue and improve their
path of recovery and wellness in a safe, healthy, and
appropriate environment.
$5,600 $5,600 $5,600
29
San Luis Obispo
County Bicycle
Coalition, dba
Bike SLO County
Cycling Without
Age
The new Bike SLO County program, Cycling Without
Age, addresses social isolation for seniors by
offering bicycle rides for those who can no longer
cycle. The funds will be used for materials,
marketing, insurance, and background checks to
increase volunteer efforts.
$5,500 $0 $0
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30
San Luis Obispo
Legal Assistance
Foundation
Senior Legal
Services
This program provides assistance to approximately
2,000 SLO County residents in need of legal
assistance or referrals to other resources, 700+
being seniors. SLSP’s resulting caseload of 250+
clients each year includes civil matters such as
homelessness prevention, elder abuse, consumer
finance, government benefits appeals, and preparing
for incapacity/end-of-life. The funds will be used for
all operating costs.
$20,000 $0 $0
31 Senior Nutrition
Program
Meals that
Connect
This program strives to meet the growing needs to
feed the senior population, especially those who are
at or below the poverty level. The funds will be used
to cover food costs, kitchen staff labor, supplies,
rent, transportation cost for our San Luis Obispo
dining site at the United Church of Christ
Congregational.
$15,000 $7,500 $7,500
32 Shower the
People
Shower the
People
The program will continue to provide access to a free
shower to the homeless at our current four (4) sites
in San Luis Obispo. It provides clients with a shower
as well as a new pair of underwear, socks, t-shirts, a
comb, and hand sanitizer.
$20,000 $20,000 $20,000
33 SLO County
UndocuSupport
Direct Housing
Aid for
Immigrant
Families
This program is intended to provide aid to local
undocumented focused community-based-
organizations that directly interface with the
undocumented population to provide direct housing
aid in the form of rental assistance, security deposit,
and/or utility payment to avoid shut-off. The funds
will be used for grants, staff, and administrative fees.
$7,442 $7,442 $7,442
34 SLO Noor
Foundation
Whole
Community
Care Project
This program will open a solely owned and operated
mobile health clinic in addition to expanding capacity
at its existing two clinic sites in San Luis Obispo. It
will provide new and existing clinical programs, a
new care coordination program, and a new
community outreach campaign to better reach and
serve “hard-to-reach” populations in the City of San
Luis Obispo. The funds will be used for staffing and
program services.
$20,000 $0 $0
35
Smart Share
Housing
Solutions
Community
Housing
Provisions/Hom
eless
Prevention
The program is a two-pronged approach, providing
immediate direct housing to City residents and
planning for broader longer term housing support in
upcoming years through the Waterman Village
Residency Plan. The funds will be used for research,
$14,460 $5,960 $5,960
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training, stakeholder input, draft review and final
draft.
36
Transitions
Mental Health
Association
Growing
Grounds
Downtown
This program is one of three Growing Grounds social
enterprises that provides vocational training and paid
employment to 20 TMHA clients with the hopes of
adding 4 clients, with a focus on individuals who are
at risk of homelessness. The funds will be used for
staff salaries, client wages, PR taxes, credit
card/service charges, insurance, and
telecommunication.
$20,000 $10,000 $10,000
37 United Way of
San Luis Obispo
Community -
Driven Initiative
in San Luis
Obispo:
Preventing
Poverty and
Building a
Sustainable
Community
This program focuses on two primary areas of
impact that include community collaboration and
poverty prevention by providing tax resources, a
resource fair, a financial literacy program, and by
increasing volunteer engagement. The funds will be
used for staff salaries, administrative costs,
advertising, "miscellaneous," and platform
subscriptions.
$20,000 $11,000 $11,000
TOTAL $495,243 $150,000 $150,000
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2024-25 Human Services Grant New Final Funding Recommendations
Organization Project or
Program Description of Project/Program Requested
Amount
New Final HRC
Recommended
Amounts
1 5 Cities Homeless
Coalition
Homeless
Prevention &
Rapid Re-
Housing
This program provides wrap-around services including case
management and direct financial assistance with a special emphasis
on the housing support program. It will ensure services are low-
barrier and accessible and assist them to resolve their housing crisis
before focusing on other non-housing related services. The use of
the funds will be for rental assistance and relocation stabilization
(staff & application fees and deposit).
$20,000 $10,000
2
Big Brothers Big
Sisters of San
Luis Obispo
County
Mentoring to
Help
Disadvantaged
Youth Meet
their Full
Potential
This program provides professional caseworkers to pair and sustain
mentoring relationships for disadvantaged youth residing SLO.
Caseworkers (bilingual) will screen, train, pair with a mentor,
support, assess, and provide referrals to address physical, mental
health, and developmental service needs, including connections to
hunger prevention programs. The funds will be used for local
government/schools and for staff salaries.
$10,000 $0
3
CASA of San Luis
Obispo County,
Inc.
General SLO
CASA Program
Support
This program advocates for the best interests of abused and
neglected children within the court system. CASA recruits, trains,
and supervises volunteers who advocate for this vulnerable
population with the goal of ensuring that each and every child grows
up in a safe, nurturing, and permanent home. The funds will be used
for rent and utilities.
$20,000 $10,000
4 City Farm 2025 Youth
Empowerment
Program
This program supports the Summer of 2025, City Farm SLO’s Youth
Empowerment Program (YEP) will provide 1,500 individual
instruction hours to 35 teens. 5,000 pounds of produce will be
delivered to the SLO Food Bank as a result of programming,
impacting thousands of residents. The funds will be used for two
facilitators, a farmer, food and beverage, tools and materials, and
liability insurance.
$15,000 $0
5
Community
Action
Partnership of
SLO County
Homeless
Prevention/Sta
ble Housing
Services
This program will provide emergency financial assistance to
residents in households in SLO that are at risk of being evicted and
need help with a rental payment, or who need support securing
housing with first month’s rent and/or a security deposit. The funds
will be used for financial assistance payments and "indirect
expenses @8%".
$10,000 $10,000
6
Community
Action
Partnership of
SLO County
Families in
Transition (FIT)
This program is a long-standing program and partnership with
SLCUSD focused on supporting homeless students and their
families. This project is intended to support 10 families with children
(five homeless, five at risk for eviction) enrolled in SLCUSD that
$10,000 $5,000
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reside in the city. The funds will be used for housing-related case
management services (described above) and direct financial support
to secure and maintain permanent housing for these youth and their
families.
7
Community
Counseling
Center
Sharing the
Therapeutic
Space:
Professional
and Affordable
Psychotherapy
Options for
Underprivileged
Populations in
the City of San
Luis Obispo
This program supports the small collective of volunteer therapists
and coordinators of a flourishing organization that serves thousands
of low-income residents, students, and unhoused individuals and
provides training opportunities to current and future mental health
professionals. The funds will be used towards 3 salaries, telehealth
annual fee, rent/mortgage, and operating expenses. $5,000 $0
8 Corazon Latino
Support
Groups -
Corazon Latino
Central Coast
This program will have reoccurring focus groups where marginalized
communities will have access to multiple agencies providing
information and support regarding homeless prevention, hunger and
malnutrition prevention, language services, and physical/mental
health services. It also aims to provide childcare, food, and ongoing
rotation of partner agencies at these support groups. The funds will
be used towards 5 salaries and food & beverage.
$20,000 $0
9 Diversity
Coalition
BIPOC Board
Leadership
Training
Program
This project supports the ongoing efforts of the BIPOC Board
Leadership program that conducts 2 trainings per year with 12-15
diverse BIPOC participants, that is followed by board placement
assistance for BIPOC individuals with nonprofit boards. It also
supports their partnership with Spokes in providing DEI trainings to
agencies aiming to diversify their boards. The funds will be used for
staff salary, training materials, and meals for cohort.
$10,000 $0
10 Family Matters
Consulting
Circle of
Security -
Prevention
Program
This program aims to address the systematic injustices marginalized
children experience in the education system. This is done by
addressing the challenges by implementing evidence-based
interventions with Circle of Security focused on promoting equity and
inclusion in early childhood education. The funds will be used for two
facilitators and one program coordinator who will provide accessible
support groups.
$15,000 $0
11 Food Bank of SLO
County
No-Cook Bags
for SLO County
Residents
Experiencing
Homelessness
This program will provide continued funding for our No-Cook Bags
program, bags of portable foods designed for homeless residents
who do not have access to a kitchen and cannot benefit from typical
Food Bank distribution items. This program has proven to be very
successful in the City of San Luis Obispo, with approximately 1,500
No-Cook Bags distributed each month to homeless residents of the
$20,000.00 $0
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city to ensure access to nutritious meals. The funds will be used to
purchase food for program.
12 Hospice of SLO
County
Caregiver
Support and
Grief
Counseling
This program is meant to offer a variety of services to help keep
home caregivers healthy and well as they care for a loved one with a
life-limiting diagnosis. The funds for this program will be to support
the personnel costs associated with sustaining the Caregiver
Support and Grief Counseling program so that they can meet the
community’s ongoing need for in-home caregiver support and grief
counseling services.
$20,000 $0
13 Housing Authority
San Luis Obispo
Housing
Stability with
Supportive
Housing
Program
This program's objectives include housing stability, transitioning from
homelessness and rapid-rehoused and evection prevention. The
funds will be focused on 4 areas including transportation, hunger,
transitional housing, and incentives and this program intends to
serve 1,099 residents in the city.
$20,000 $10,000
14
Independent
Living Resource
Center
Disability
Rights and
Cultural
Awareness in
San Luis
Obispo
The program will focus on providing a series of workshops to
community members in two key areas Workshop Focus #1:
Advocacy Skill Development and Workshop Focus #2: Disability
Inclusion in the Workplace, followed by a Disability Culture Night.
The funds will be for workshop consultant, travel, lodging, space,
supplies, support, and access accommodations.
$8,691 $0
15 Jack's Helping
Hand
Assistance for
Single Mothers
of Children with
Special Needs
in the City of
San Luis
Obispo
This program is designed to empower and enable families,
professionals, and the broader community to meet the unique
physical, mental, and medical needs of special children and young
adults under the age of 21 within SLO County. There are currently
35 children receiving direct assisted, 54% of whom are being cared
for by a single or divorced parent. The funds will be used for food gift
cards, lodging for out-of-town medical appointments,
transportation/fuel expenses, medical equipment, medical bills and
emergency needs.
$10,000 $0
16
Jewish Family
Services of San
Luis Obispo
Homeless
Support
Services
This program will provide necessary support services to the
homeless population by offering services such as: DMV registration,
vehicle insurance, car repair, and gas cards; additional needed
assistance for items such as: storage, food, impound fees, propane,
rent and deposits, medical and legal expenses. The grant will be
used for operating (90% direct services) and administrative (10%)
costs.
$7,300 $7,300
17 Literacy for Life The Literacy
Program
This program's mission is to recruit and train community members to
become volunteer tutors to work one-on-one with learners and guide
them to set and meet their individual literacy learning goal (s). The
goals can be as vary by the needs of the student. The funds will be
used for general operating expenses.
$10,000 $10,000
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18
Long Term Care
Ombudsman
Services of San
Luis Obispo
County
Ombudsman
Services
This program has services for people who live in long term care
facilities (skilled nursing or residential care facilities for the elderly) or
who are seeking information about facilities. Services include
resident advocacy, facility monitoring visits, complaint investigations
and resolution, information and assistance, and systemic advocacy.
The funds will be used for staff salaries.
$5,000 $5,000
19 Lumina Alliance
Emergency
Shelter
Program for
Sexual Assault
and Intimate
Partner
Violence
Survivors
This program is the only agency on the Central Coast that operates
a rape crisis center and has shelters that are consistently at capacity
and receive an ever-increasing number of requests for services and
calls to the 24/7 Crisis & Information Line. The funds will be used for
utilities, equipment, repair, and food to support general operating
costs, as well as any necessary repairs, for our shelters that arise.
$20,000 $20,000
20 One Cool Earth Garden
Education
Program
The project will support our programming at four (4) SLO school
gardens, providing year-long nutrition learning for 1669 students. A
Garden Educator is provided to school campuses who teach a series
of 108 seasonally aligned, hands-on, and standard-based lessons
per school per year. The Garden Educator will also hold two (2)
community garden workdays and one family cooking night per
school. The funds will be used for educator wages, garden supplies,
and cooking supplies.
$5,000 $0
21 PathPoint
Independent
Living
Technology for
People with
I/DD
This program will provide independent living technology that will
enable people with intellectual disabilities and developmental
disabilities served in the Independent Living Services (ILS) and
Coordinated Family Supports (CFS) to learn the skills necessary to
retain stable housing, live productive lives, and achieve maximum
independence. The funds will be used for smart home hubs,
automated medication dispensers, tablets, visual alert systems,
livescribe pens, smart cooking devices, smart televisions,
smartwatches, and electric lift desks.
$15,000 $0
22
People's Self-Help
Housing
Corporation
SLO
Supportive
Housing
Program for
Low-Income
Households
This program will provide an average of 16 hours of service every
week benefitting PSHH’s San Luis Obispo residents. New residents
receive information about SHP services upon move-in from
Residence Managers, who live onsite. Managers also provide
additional outreach whenever a resident speaks to them about a
particular difficulty with which social workers could assist.
$20,000 $0
23
Pregnancy and
Parenting Support
of SLO County
Nurture SLO
Families
This program provides local families with emotional support, practical
assistance, and connections to community resources from
pregnancy through early childhood. They offer free psychotherapy
with trained clinicians through partnership with Community
Counseling Center. The funds will be used for 3 staff positions, rent,
program supplies and staff training.
$15,000 $0
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24 RACE MATTERS
SLO Shop Talk
This project seeks funds to support 12 monthly programs centered
on Black wellness and healing, as well as wellness and healing for
other communities of color, through our program, “Shop Talk,” which
advances health equity and wellbeing through clinician-led
discussion groups. The funds will be used for all costs (staff,
honoraria, facility rental, admin, cleaning, marking, food, and
supplies.
$10,000 $0
25 Restorative
Partners, Inc.
Opportunity to
Fund
These programs designed to assist individuals facing financial
barriers, mental health issues, and substance abuse challenges as
they reintegrate into our community. This year, they expect to assist
80 individuals as they work to overcome homelessness,
unemployment, and stigma. The funds will be used for client's
emergency needs.
$10,000 $10,000
26
San Luis Obispo
Child
Development
Resource Center
Child and
Family Play
Therapy
Program
This program will fund the therapy team in providing additional
counseling and rehabilitation services. Grant funds will expand
services, accommodating 20 additional therapy clients annually. The
funds will be used to provide 325 therapy hours and 8 hours of
professional development, focusing on cultural competencies.
$10,000 $0
27
San Luis Obispo
Committee for
Education on
Alcoholism, dba
Middle House
Alumni Housing
This project seeks to help clients of Middle House to relocate to
independent living after a satisfactory stay at Middle House, which is
difficult to find housing due the extreme expense of pre-rental
requirements (i.e.., security deposit, first & last months’ rent, etc.).
$6,250 $6,250
28
San Luis Obispo
Committee for
Education on
Alcoholism, dba
Middle House
Homeless
Prevention
This project seeks to help clients of Middle House with the
opportunity to continue and improve their path of recovery and
wellness in a safe, healthy, and appropriate environment. $5,600 $5,600
29
San Luis Obispo
County Bicycle
Coalition, dba
Bike SLO County
Cycling Without
Age
The new Bike SLO County program, Cycling Without Age, addresses
social isolation for seniors by offering bicycle rides for those who can
no longer cycle. The funds will be used for materials, marketing,
insurance, and background checks to increase volunteer efforts.
$5,500 $0
30
San Luis Obispo
Legal Assistance
Foundation
Senior Legal
Services
This program provides assistance to approximately 2,000 SLO
County residents in need of legal assistance or referrals to other
resources, 700+ being seniors. SLSP’s resulting caseload of 250+
clients each year includes civil matters such as homelessness
prevention, elder abuse, consumer finance, government benefits
appeals, and preparing for incapacity/end-of-life. The funds will be
used for all operating costs.
$20,000 $0
31 Senior Nutrition
Program
Meals that
Connect
This program strives to meet the growing needs to feed the senior
population, especially those who are at or below the poverty level.
The funds will be used to cover food costs, kitchen staff labor, $15,000 $7,500
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supplies, rent, transportation cost for our San Luis Obispo dining site
at the United Church of Christ Congregational.
32 Shower the
People
Shower the
People
The program will continue to provide access to a free shower to the
homeless at our current four (4) sites in San Luis Obispo. It provides
clients with a shower as well as a new pair of underwear, socks, t-
shirts, a comb, and hand sanitizer.
$20,000 $20,000
33 SLO County
UndocuSupport
Direct Housing
Aid for
Immigrant
Families
This program is intended to provide aid to local undocumented
focused community-based-organizations that directly interface with
the undocumented population to provide direct housing aid in the
form of rental assistance, security deposit, and/or utility payment to
avoid shut-off. The funds will be used for grants, staff, and
administrative fees.
$7,442 $7,442
34 SLO Noor
Foundation
Whole
Community
Care Project
This program will open a solely owned and operated mobile health
clinic in addition to expanding capacity at its existing two clinic sites
in San Luis Obispo. It will provide new and existing clinical programs,
a new care coordination program, and a new community outreach
campaign to better reach and serve “hard-to-reach” populations in
the City of San Luis Obispo. The funds will be used for staffing and
program services.
$20,000 $0
35
Smart Share
Housing
Solutions
Community
Housing
Provisions/Hom
eless
Prevention
The program is a two-pronged approach, providing immediate direct
housing to City residents and planning for broader longer term
housing support in upcoming years through the Waterman Village
Residency Plan. The funds will be used for research, training,
stakeholder input, draft review and final draft.
$14,460 $5,908
36
Transitions
Mental Health
Association
Growing
Grounds
Downtown
This program is one of three Growing Grounds social enterprises
that provides vocational training and paid employment to 20 TMHA
clients with the hopes of adding 4 clients, with a focus on individuals
who are at risk of homelessness. The funds will be used for staff
salaries, client wages, PR taxes, credit card/service charges,
insurance, and telecommunication.
$20,000 $0
37 United Way of
San Luis Obispo
Community -
Driven Initiative
in San Luis
Obispo:
Preventing
Poverty and
Building a
Sustainable
Community
This program focuses on two primary areas of impact that include
community collaboration and poverty prevention by providing tax
resources, a resource fair, a financial literacy program, and by
increasing volunteer engagement. The funds will be used for staff
salaries, administrative costs, advertising, "miscellaneous," and
platform subscriptions.
$20,000 $0
TOTAL $495,243 $150,000
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Human Relations Commission Minutes
May 29, 2024, 5:30 p.m.
Council Hearing Room, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo
Human Relations
Commissioners
Present:
Commissioner Stephanie Carlotti, Commissioner Vincent
DeTurris, Commissioner Sierra Smith, Commissioner Taryn
Warrecker, Vice Chair Catuih Campos, Chair Angie Kasprzak
City Staff Present: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager Nestor Veloz-
Passalacqua, Deputy City Manager Greg Hermann, City Clerk
Teresa Purrington
_____________________________________________________________________
1. CALL TO ORDER
A Special Meeting of the San Luis Obispo Human Relations Commission was
called to order on May 29, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. in the Council Hearing Room at City
Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, by Chair Kasprzak.
2. PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEMS ON THE AGENDA
3. BUSINESS ITEMS
3.a 2024-25 Human Services Grant Funding
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Manager Nestor Veloz-Passalacqua
presented the staff report and responded to Commission inquiries.
Chair Kasprzak opened Public Comment
Public Comment:
Biz Steinberg
Bernadette Bernardi
Susan Lamont
Ilene Brill
Jack Lahey
Janna Nichols
Marina Bernheimer
Karen Jones
--End of Public Comment--
Chair Kasprzak closed Public Comment
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Motion By Commissioner Warrecker
Second By Commissioner Smith
To provide the following funding recommendation to City Council for the 2024 -25
Human Services Grants:
1. Five Cities Homeless Coalition - Homeless Prevention & Rapid Re-Housing -
$10,000
3. CASA of San Luis Obispo County - General SLO CASA Program Support -
$10,000
5. CAPSLO - Homeless Prevention/Stable Housing Services - $10,000
6. CAPSLO - Families in Transition (FIT) - $5000
13. HASLO - Housing Stability with Supporting Housing Program - $10,000
16. Jewish Family Services of San Luis Obispo - Homeless Support Services -
$7,300
17. Literacy for Life - The Literacy Program - $10,000
18. Long Term Care Ombudsman of San Luis Obispo County - Ombudsman
Services - $5,000
19. Lumina Alliance - Emergency Shelter Program for Sexual Assault and Initiate
Partner Violence Survivors - $20,000
25. Restorative Partners, Inc. - Opportunity to Fund - $10,000
27. San Luis Obispo Committee for Education on Alcoholism, dba Middle House -
Alumni Housing - $6,250
28. San Luis Obispo Committee for Education on Alcoholism, dba Middle House -
Homeless Prevention - $5,600
31. Senior Nutrition - Meals that Connect - $7,500
32. Shower the People - Shower the People - $20,000
33. SLO County UndocuSpport - Direct Housing Aid for Immigrant Families -
$7,442
35. Smart Share Housing Solutions - Community Housing Provisions/Homeless
Prevention - $5,908
Ayes (6): Commissioner Carlotti, Commissioner DeTurris, Commissioner
Smith, Commissioner Warrecker, Vice Chair Campos, and Chair Kasprzak
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CARRIED (6 to 0)
4. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 7:08 p.m. The next Regular Meeting of the Human
Relations Commission for June 5th is canceled. The next Regular Meeting of the
Human Relations Commission is scheduled for Wednesday, July 10th, 2024 at
5:00 p.m. in the Council Hearing Room at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis
Obispo.
APPROVED BY HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION: XX/XX/202X
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