OHIO

Erie Metropolitan Housing Authority --- $45,508

In Erie County, Ohio, one program coordinator and one case manager work with the Erie Housing Authority's 126 Section 8 FSS families. The HA's program is designed to meet the needs of the participant making the transition to financial independence. Classroom sessions include personal development, career exploration, job readiness, survival skills, and resource management. The unmet needs of program participants include many areas beginning with low self-esteem, little previous success with education, lack of vocation and job skills and lack of goal setting and job retention skills. Through the coordination of community resources, programs have been designed and implemented so that the HA may recommend participants to the resources where success can be achieved. The FSS Coordinator's job is to secure commitments from public and private groups and needed services. Work with the FSS Coordinating Committee, send notices of meetings, keep committee informed of activities, preside at meetings. Set up system for selecting participants; issue FSS applications; coordinate all activities of FSS program. Manages the flow of clients through the case manager to the service providers and determine total tenant payment for escrow purposes.

Jackson Metropolitan Housing Authority(MHA) --- $35,666

In Jackson County, Ohio, the Jackson MHA FSS Coordinator will jump-start their FSS Program which has encountered difficulties in recruiting and retaining FSS participants since its inception in 1993. The JMHA FSS Program currently has one participant in the program, a teacher working full-time who has not been able to attain self-sufficiency due to the very low prevailing wages in Jackson County (she has a positive escrow account balance). The Jackson MHA FSS Program Action Plan is designed to assist eligible families to receive housing assistance while connecting the families with appropriate supportive services to move the family toward economic self-sufficiency. The JMHA FSS Program Coordinating Committee has determined that the primary supportive service needs of their residents in high-poverty, rural, Jackson County include: additional education; job training and employment services; transportation; day care services; health care; and money management training. It is anticipated that with the requested FSS Coordinator funding, the JMHA FSS Program will be able for the first time to provide the much needed coordination of supportive services for families in Jackson County, and assist families in achieving economic self-sufficiency.

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