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Homeless Prevention & Rapid Re-Housing Program
(This program is CLOSED.)
This program provides financial assistance and services to homeless individuals and families, as well as those who would become homeless without assistance. The program will provide short-term stability to families, allowing them to obtain stable, long-term housing when assistance ends.
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$8,045,331 |
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Keeping Seniors Connected
ARRA funds were used to conduct a multi-level campaign to publicize the national program to assist older adults in the conversion of television broadcast from analog to digital service. This conversion had the potential to disconnect some individuals completely from their linkage to the world. The DHS Area Agency on Aging (AAA) joined the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (N4A) to make sure any older adults in Allegheny County who were without television service would have their connection restored. Within six weeks, 104 older adults went from not having any television reception, to having converter equipment installed and operational—all free of charge. The equipment and installation were paid for by an existing, related federal program.
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$5,993 |
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Emergency Food
DHS received ARRA funding to cover delivery-cost increases related to the recent increase in the quantity of non-perishable food items available to local food banks through the federal TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program). The funding was directed to the  Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, the recipient and distributor of TEFAP commodities in Allegheny County.
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$123,460
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Chronic Disease Self Management
This program provides workshops to empower older adults to maintain their health and manage their chronic health conditions.
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$125,981
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COMPASS Project
ARRA funds were used to establish two new Community Partner sites for the use of COMPASS, the online benefit enrollment computer application provided through the Department of Public Welfare.
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$3,100 |
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Early Intervention Support
Funding to provide additional service coordination and enhance billing readiness of early intervention providers.
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$645,656 |
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Subtotal |
$8,949,521 |