Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the UNIK Foundation in support of its Expand Reentry Programming for the New American/Immigrant/Muslim Communities in Columbus initiative.
The UNIK Foundation is a Columbus-based non-profit organization dedicated to supporting incarcerated citizens from the New American/Immigrant/Muslim communities. Restored citizens in general, and New Americans/Immigrant/Muslim restored citizens in particular, face tremendous challenges navigating and finding suitable and affordable housing in safe neighborhoods and good paying jobs to escape poverty. UNIK engages with inmates prior to release to prepare them for community reintegration. Once released, restored citizens are assigned dedicated case managers help individuals quickly find suitable housing and job-training program through our community partners.
This funding will expand UNIK’s in-prison reentry program (culturally-appropriate cognitive behavioral Therapy and digital job readiness) to include more correctional institutional partners. It will engage incarcerated individuals in-prison with reentry programming, while efficiently connecting individuals with needed services through its community resource partners (such as Southeast, Inc, and Heart of Ohio Family Health) post-release.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this grant agreement is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency action is requested to immediately provide resources necessary to expand programming within vulnerable Columbus communities.
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To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with the UNIK Foundation in support of its Expand Reentry Programming for the New American/Immigrant/Muslim Communities in Columbus initiative; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure of $50,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
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