2009 Emergency Shelter Grant Funding

For Immediate Release	Contact: Charla Jackson Peter
June 1, 2009	(502) 564-7630, ext. 454

Kentucky Housing Corporation Announces Emergency Shelter Grant Funding

Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) has announced the latest recipients, outside of Fayette and Jefferson Counties, of Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) funds. Forty-seven projects proposed by nonprofit agencies and local governments will receive a total of $1,385,161 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to assist the homeless in Kentucky.

The ESG Program, administered throughout most of the state by KHC, is a federal program that helps convert and rehabilitate structures for use as emergency or transitional shelters, to fund the operation and service expenses of these shelters, and to develop programs that prevent homelessness.

This announcement comes days after Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced a new homelessness prevention and re-housing program called Kentucky’s Housing and Emergency Assistance Reaching The Homeless (KY HEARTH) Program. KY HEARTH will provide rental assistance and services to prevent people from becoming homeless and to help those who are experiencing homelessness.

“Having safe, affordable housing is key to a person’s health, ability to work, and overall well-being,” said Richard L. McQuady, chief executive officer of Kentucky Housing Corporation. “These two programs will help Kentuckians by providing housing and services to those who are homeless or on the brink of losing their home.”

Nearly 700 homeless individuals throughout the state were found to be without shelter during the 2009 Point-In-Time Homeless Count, even though the state had just experienced a major winter storm. In the Balance of State (the 118 counties outside of Lexington and Louisville), almost 7,000 individuals were precariously housed, meaning they were living with friends or family or living in places that do not have running water or electricity.

For more information about KHC's ESG Program, please contact Jill House or Heather Harvey toll-free in Kentucky at (800) 633-8896 or (502) 564-7630, extensions 705 or 777, respectively; TTY 711; or e-mail jhouse@kyhousing.org or hharvey@kyhousing.org, respectively.

Emergency Shelter Grant Program
2009 Funding for the Balance of State

Agency	Funding	Area Development District (ADD)
Boulware Center Mission	$50,000	Green River ADD
The Shepherd’s Shelter, Inc.	$49,500	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
Merryman House Domestic Crisis Center	$49,000	Purchase ADD
LKLP Community Action Council, Inc.	$48,500	Kentucky River ADD
Hazard-Perry County Community Ministries, Inc.	$48,000	Kentucky River ADD
People’s Self-Help Housing, Inc.	$47,500	Buffalo Trace ADD
Paducah Cooperative Ministry	$47,000	Purchase ADD
Good News Shelter Corporation–Trimble County	$32,550	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program	$23,000	Bluegrass ADD
Home of the Innocents	$20,930	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
Green River Ministries, Inc.	$45,000	Lake Cumberland ADD
Interfaith Hospitality Network of Northern Kentucky	$35,600	Northern Kentucky ADD
Barren River Area Safe Space	$44,000	Barren River ADD
Bethany House Abuse Shelter, Inc.	$43,500	Lake Cumberland Add
Harlan Countians for a Healthy Community	$43,000	Cumberland Valley ADD
Good News Shelter–Oldham County	$42,500	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
The Adanta Group	$25,200	Lake Cumberland ADD
The Healing Place	$12,450	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
Daniel Boone Community Action Agency, Inc.	$41,000	Cumberland Valley ADD
Kentucky River Foothills Development Council	$36,450	Bluegrass ADD
Transitions, Inc.	$40,000	Northern Kentucky ADD
Clark County Community Services	$39,000	Bluegrass ADD
Women’s Crisis Center–Buffalo Trace	$38,000	Buffalo Trace ADD
Daniel Pitino Shelter, Inc.	$37,000	Green River ADD
Operation Care, Inc.	$36,000	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
Purchase Area Housing Corporation	$8,820	Purchase ADD
Welcome House of Northern Kentucky	$34,000	Northern Kentucky ADD
Kentucky River Community Care, Inc.	$14,520	Cumberland Valley ADD
CAP Family Life Abuse Center	$32,000	Cumberland Valley ADD
City of Ashland	$62,000	FIVCO
Gateway Juvenile Diversion Project	$30,000	Gateway ADD
Volunteers of America of Kentucky, Inc.	$8,458	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
Brighton Center, Inc.	$27,000	Northern Kentucky ADD
Gateway Homeless Coalition, Inc.	$25,500	Gateway ADD & FIVCO
Jesus Community Center Shelter for the Homeless	$24,000	Barren River ADD
Simon House, Inc.	$18,000	Bluegrass ADD
KCEOC Community Action Partnership	$21,000	Cumberland Valley ADD
Central Kentucky Community Action Council, Inc.	$19,500	Lincoln Trail ADD
WestCare Kentucky, Inc.	$18,000	Big Sandy ADD
Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission, Inc.	$16,500	Northern Kentucky ADD
Community OutReach, Inc.	$4,500	Barren River ADD
Shelter for Women and Children, Inc.	$13,500	Green River ADD
Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency, Inc.	$12,000	Cumberland Valley ADD
Women’s Crisis Center–Northern Kentucky	$10,500	Northern Kentucky ADD
The Center for Women and Families	$5,796	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
St. John Center	$2,250	Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
Community Action Council for Lexington-Fayette, Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas Counties, Inc.	$2,637	Bluegrass ADD

TOTAL	1,385,161

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