A grant program aimed at providing a minimum of $50,000 per eligible awardees to support care facilities will open Jan. 22, Los Angeles County officials announced this week.
In a partnership between the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, the county’s Development Authority, and housing service provider Brilliant Corners, the group will launch the Community Care Expansion Preservation Capital Projects Program, which will fund physical rehabilitation improvements for licensed adult residential facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly and residential care facilities for the chronically ill located within the county.
LACDA will administer and implement the program on behalf of the county and will partner with Brilliant Corners — with funding received from Cedars-Sinai and administered by the California Community Foundation — to oversee the required physical needs assessments to determine grant applicants’ capital improvement needs.
“This grant funding will make it possible for many residential care facilities to remain in operation by helping them make important repairs and upgrades to their buildings,” county Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a statement. “Otherwise, many of these much-needed facilities could face closure and put their residents at risk of homelessness.”
The application portal will open on Jan. 22 and will remain open for six weeks, closing on March 4, 2024. Application-related trainings will be offered on Jan. 17 for eligibility and scoring criteria and requesting a physical needs assessment report. On Jan. 29, there will be a application-related training for the step-by-step application process. For more information, to register or to apply during the application’s open period, go to https://www.ccecp.org/.
The Board of Supervisors previously voted unanimously in favor of accepting state funds to implement this grant program. Funding for the programs comes from Assembly Bill 172, which established a state-wide effort to expand the state’s housing and care continuum, improve treatment outcomes and prevent homelessness or unnecessary institutionalization.
L.A. County will use $55.5 million in state funding for the grant program, with an additional $11.2 million committed of the Mental Health Services Act fund toward this effort, totaling $66.7 million.
“Los Angeles County has taken another step to keep our most vulnerable residents housed through this grant program,” county Supervisor Hilda Solis said in a statement. “The preservation of residential facilities is critical to our efforts in combating homelessness.”
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