HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 5b. Selection of the Commissioner Liaison Roles for 2025-26 Human Services Grant Item 5b
Human Relations Commission
Agenda Report
For Agenda of: 8/6/2025
Item Number: 5b
FROM: Samantha Vethavanam, DEI Administrative Specialist
Phone Number: (805) 781-7064
E-mail: svethava@slocity.org
SUBJECT: SELECTION OF THE COMMISSIONER LIAISON ROLES FOR 2025-26
HUMAN SERVICES GRANT
RECOMMENDATION
Designate and approve liaison assignments for each of the grant recipients from the
2025-26 Human Services Grant program.
BACKGROUND
The Human Relations Commission (HRC) is tasked with reviewing the applications for
the Human Services Grant program and providing funding recommendations to City
Council. HRC is also tasked with acting as liaisons to grant recipients, once selected,
during the period of the grant cycle to offer technical assistance and be a conduit between
the grantee and the City. This liaison role also affords the HRC the opportunity to work
and directly engage with various grant recipients doing work related to human services
and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Human Services Grant provides financial support to non -profit organizations that
promote the economic and social well-being of its citizens. For the 2025-26 Fiscal Year,
the main funding priority was “homelessness prevention including affordable, alternative,
transitional housing, and supportive services.” Secondary priorities, not listed in order of
importance included:
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
communities, including access to language services.
These priorities were funded when and if qualified applicants under the main funding
priority received funding first.
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Item 5b
For the 2025-26 Human Services Grant, a total of twelve (12) organizations were awarded
funding. The recipients are as follows:
Organization Name Program/Project
1 Community Action Partnership SLO Homeless Prevention/Stable Housing
2 Housing Authority of SLO Housing Stability with Supportive Services
3 Long Term Care Ombudsman
Services of SLO County Ombudsman Services
4 Lumina Alliance Emergency Shelter for Sexual Assault and
Intimate Partner Violence Survivors
5 Meals that Connect Nutrition for Healthy Seniors
6 Mixteco Indigena Community
Organizing Project Housing/Wellness Navigator
7 People’s Self-Help Housing City of SLO Supportive Housing
8 Restorative Partners Opportunity to Fund
9 Shower the People Shower the People
10 SLO CASA General SLO CASA Program Support
11 SLO Legal Assistance Foundations Senior Homeless Prevention
12 United Way of SLO County 211 Homeless Intake and Homeless
Prevention Screening Services
Commissioners will designate and approve their liaison assignment roles for each of the
2025-26 Human Services Grant recipients listed above in preparation for the mid -year
report review.
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