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Appendix: Summary of Current Efforts
Current Effort Description |
Total Dollar Amount
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A/TC Contract Amount
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Number Served
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Public; Private; Public/Private Collaboration
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FOOD, CLOTHING, AND EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE
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Capital Area Food Bank: Provides food to social service organizations throughout the community. |
At least $10 million in food each year
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$119,600D |
3,920,000 meals |
Public/ Private Collaboration |
Austin Community Gardens: Provides garden plots to enable low-income and working poor to grow food for basic self-sufficiency. |
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$45,000 |
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CARITAS of Austin, Inc.: Assists the working poor, homeless, and legal refugees in meeting their emergency basic needs and achieving self-sufficiency. Services include: emergency assistance, case management, soup kitchen, food pantry, refugee resettlement, and employment services. |
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$298,077 |
64,000 persons/ households served |
Public/Private Collaboration |
Meals on Wheels: Provides a variety of home-based services that enable frail elderly and disabled people to maintain as much independence as possible in their places of residence. Services include home-delivered meals, grocery shopping assistance, volunteer transportation to medical appointments, reassuring telephone calls, and minor home and safety repairs. |
$1,906,596 |
$238,150 |
450,000 meals served |
Public/Private Collaboration |
Services for the Elderly: Provides in-home care, support, and social services to the aged and disabled who are chronically and or acutely ill. Services are provided by assisting clients with chores providing escorts to doctor appointments, providing clients referrals to other needed services, food and clothing distribution. |
$1,607,520 |
$53,217 |
600 |
Public/Private Collaboration |
Sustainable Food Center: Provides fresh produce to low income families through farmers markets and community gardens. Also provides nutritional education to low income families. |
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1,000 annually |
Private |
Salvation Army: Provides emergency services to people who are homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless. These services include: seven-day emergency shelter, meals, hygiene needs, clothing, food, and other services. |
$1,352,553 |
$228,992 |
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Public/Private Collaboration |
Texas Department of Human Services Summer Nutrition Program: provides breakfast and lunch to children during the summer at school sites. City of Austin and Austin Independent School District operate several sites in the Austin area. |
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67,708 breakfasts served in 1998; 150,966 lunches served in 1998. |
Public |
Travis County Emergency Assistance Program: Provides services to individuals to attain/maintain self-sufficiency. Low and moderate-income families and individuals in Austin and Travis County can apply for emergency assistance with utility payments, food, rent or mortgage payments, and indigent burials. |
$2,106,368 |
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21,468 in FY 1998 |
Public |
Austin/Travis County Health & Human Services Department: Operates community centers at which persons in need can receive food assistance as well as information, referral and advocacy services. |
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OTHER
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Any Baby Can: Provides support and crisis assistance for children with special health care needs. |
$106,544 |
$9,662 |
300 |
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Family Eldercare, Inc.: Educates the public about aging issues, and intervenes to prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation. |
$452,279 |
$61,744 LOTHING |
250 |
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Capital Metro, the only bus service in Austin, which offers a variety of services, including free rides for the mobility impaired, and the Capital Area Rural Transportation System (CARTS) program for rural Travis County residents. |
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N/A |
Provides to United Way 25,212 tickets and passes annually. |
Public |
Austin/ Travis County Refugee Services: Provides services to refugees to help attain self-sufficiency through the Refugee Resettlement Program and the Immigration Counseling Program. |
$299,632 |
$32,559 |
145 |
Public |
Legal Aid of Central Texas: Provides legal assistance for low-income Texas residents. |
$804,067 |
$359,576 |
1,300 |
Public/Private Collaboration |
Central East Austin Community Organization: Provides comprehensive social services outreach and community education for low-income and at-risk individuals. Services provided include rent/ utility assistance, transportation, and emergency assistance. |
$79,448 |
$60,000 |
712 |
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