1999 HOPWA Competitive Grants

The AIDS Project of Portland, Maine will receive $712,221 to implement a HAVEN Project under the Housing Assistance and Volunteer Enlistment Network to continue and adapt prior HOPWA programs to address three new challenges-housing for homeless persons with HIV/AIDS, treatment for co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, and needs of persons with HIV/AIDS recently released from incarceration. A collaboration with the AIDS Lodging House, Shalom House and Peabody House to address needs of clients in southern Maine, the project will provide 42 units of tenant-based rental assistance, emergency assistance with rent, utility payments, intensive case management and in-home support, outreach and pre-release planning for persons in the criminal justice system, outreach to homeless persons with HIV, and housing information services. The HAVEN project will serve about 110 persons with HIV/AIDS and 25 family members. An additional 203 persons will receive social services. For information, contact: George W. Friou, Executive Director, 615 Congress Street, 6th. Fl., P.O. Box 5305, Portland, ME 04101; (207) 774-6877.

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