Catholic Charities
$75,000 / 2007 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
For continued support of the Re-entry Partnership Initiative in West Baltimore, including salaries for the program director and casework coordinator. The initiative links offenders returning to the community with integrated services located in East and West Baltimore to provide transition from prison back into community.
Women’s Housing Coalition
$50,027 / 2007 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
Capital funding toward the acquisition and renovation of Jenkins House, a 22-unit residential mid-rise apartment building housing homeless women and their children, most of whom are referred from emergency shelters. Emphasis is placed on educational support services for children to ensure that all will be performing at or above grade level within one year of entry into the program.
Citizens Planning and Housing Association
$85,000 / 2007 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
Toward support of Access to Housing, a program designed to set standards for housing of homeless, ex-offenders, and recovering addicts. Baltimore Area Association for Supportive Housing (BAASH) will continually assess quality of housing for the homeless, and provide guidance on best practices. BAASH will train and provide technical assistance to new providers upon request.
Women’s Housing Coalition
$20,000 / 2007 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
Two-year funding to continue support of services to homeless women with mental illness and drug addiction. By sustaining a contractual counselor and psychiatrist, the Coalition expects to reduce the rate of program incompletion by 50 percent and to increase the medication compliance rate among participants.
Minute By Minute, Inc.
$5,000 / 2007 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
For roof repair and renovations to the basement of a long-term residential treatment facility that serves female ex-offenders in West Baltimore.