Background Information: The District’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (ODMPED) invites the submission of applications for the New Communities Initiative, Comprehensive Case Management Services Grants pursuant to Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Limited Grant-Making Authority Amendment Act 2016, effective October 8, 2016 (D.C. Law 21-160; D.C. Official Code § 1-328.04) and from the Economic Development Special Account pursuant to D.C. Official Code §2-1225.21 (as amended).
Purpose of Grant Program: The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) is soliciting grant applications from qualified applicants for the purpose of providing comprehensive case management in ‘one’ of four New Communities (Lincoln Heights/Richardson Dwellings). The New Communities Initiative (NCI) is a comprehensive partnership designed to improve the quality of life for families and individuals living in distressed neighborhoods in Washington, DC. The NCI is a District-sponsored redevelopment of the physical and human architecture of neighborhoods troubled by concentrations of violent crime and poverty.
The NCI provides resources so that the community, in partnership with public and private entities, can work to transform highly concentrated low-income neighborhoods into healthy mixed-income neighborhoods. The NCI works with the community to address residents’ social and economic needs by providing linkages to job training, asset-building, counseling, and other supportive human services.
NCI Human Capital Plan requires the development of comprehensive, strengths-based support services that address significant and immediate barriers to self-sufficiency among long-time residents. The provision of comprehensive case management services is one of the cornerstones of the approach. The ‘funded grantee’ will provide comprehensive case management services to heads of household and their family within the same household, for (Lincoln Heights/Richardson Dwellings) that is guided by a strengths-based case plan developed jointly by the case manager and consumer(s). case plan will be tailored to the particular requirements and preferences of each consumer and will address immediate needs that may affect stability, as well as the achievement of self-sufficiency goals.
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