Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Office of CelebrateOne was awarded a Housing Assistance to Improve Birth and Child Outcomes Grant from the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO) for the Healthy Beginnings At Home (HBAH) 2.0 Program in partnership with the Ohio Department of Health in April 2022. Grant acceptance and subgrant service contracts were legislated with Ord. 2122-2022 and it included authorization of four (4) contracts, two (2) with housing administration services and two with project managers. This legislation modifies all four (4) contracts to better align the existing funding and it also adds a fifth contract for a new vendor to assume the work of one of the original housing providers, The Homeless Families Foundation DBA Homes For Families, which is leaving the project.
This contract modification ordinance relates only to the COHHIO/Ohio Department of Health Funding (State) and does not affect the Emergency Rental Assistance dollars (Federal). It is anticipated that a separate ordinance will realign ERA dollars between the three housing assistance providers.
Healthy Beginnings At Home 2.0 was planned to reduce the infant mortality of high-risk pregnant women by providing affordable housing intervention to those living in unstable housing. This program provides rental assistance, housing stabilization services, as well as prenatal and postnatal support to promote the health of a mother and her family as early as possible in pregnancy and to minimize the impact of unstable housing on pregnant women living in the CelebrateOne high-risk target zip codes within Columbus. The term of the original contract was April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024. This modification extends the contract period through June 30, 2025 for the two contract administration contracts, Barbara Poppe Associates, LLC and AJC Solutions LLC. This ordinance also realigns the funding in order to add another housing administration vendor, Physicians Careconnection , to s...
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