Human Resources, Labour and Employment
August 12, 2011
Call for Proposals for Supportive Living Community Partnership Program
Community-based organizations are advised that applications for 2011-12 Supportive Living Community Partnership Program funding are now being accepted. This program provides operating grants to non-profit organizations to assist with the development and implementation of services and supports aimed at reducing chronic homelessness.
“This program has created unprecedented opportunities for the Provincial Government to work with community partners to develop options for people who face multiple barriers in their efforts to secure housing,” said the Honourable Darin King, Minister of Human Resources, Labour and Employment and Lead Minister for the Poverty Reduction Strategy. “Funding from this program is enabling organizations to think big and deliver innovative solutions, which is why the Provincial Government doubled funding for the program from $2.4 million to $4.8 million in Budget 2011 Standing Strong: For Prosperity. For Our Future. For Newfoundland and Labrador.”
Grants available to non-profit organizations are expected to meet one or more of the following objectives:
- Assist individuals with complex service needs with finding and remaining in safe, affordable, stable housing;
- Support individuals with complex service needs to achieve greater self-determination by supporting the conditions that promote housing stability and increase skills and/or earnings to secure an income to live as independently as possible;
- Provide opportunities through a range of supportive living services to complement existing services and/or to help address a gap in services to support the stabilization of persons experiencing homelessness and/or multiple barriers to permanent, long-term housing; and,
- Support community capacity building activities or projects that assist in the identification and development of a range of supportive living services that prevent and address homelessness for individuals with complex service needs.
A copy of the application form can be obtained by visiting www.gov.nl.ca/hrle/forcommunitypartners/slcpp.html, sending an e-mail to slcpp@gov.nl.ca, or by calling 729-2672. The deadline for applications is October 28, 2011.
The Supportive Living Community Partnership Program is funded through the Poverty Reduction Strategy. Launched in 2006, the strategy is a comprehensive government-wide approach to promoting self-reliance, opportunity, and access to key supports for people in vulnerable circumstances. The strategy currently includes more than 80 ongoing initiatives that were informed by input from the public and developed by 14 government departments and agencies.
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Media contact:
| Bradley Power Director of Communications Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment 709-729-0753, 699-5707 bradleypower@gov.nl.ca |
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