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Board of Health for Madison and Dane County Resolution #2024-05 Authorization to Enter into Contract with and Distribute funds to Selected Applicants from the 2024 Roadmap to Reducing Violence in Madison and Dane County RFP
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Public Health-Madison and Dane County (PHMDC) released the 2024 Roadmap to Reducing Violence in Madison and Dane County Request for Proposals to seek applicants for two program areas:
• Violence Prevention: programs working towards prioritized violence prevention goals, strategies, and activities from the Violence Prevention Plan (Roadmap to Reducing Violence).
• Gun Violence Intervention: programs working to provide hospital-based intervention support for victims of gun violence.
Applicants from this RFP were scored by external panelist and reviewed for recommendation to fund. The following agencies are recommended to enter into contract to and fund at the following amounts:
|
Agency |
Program |
Amount |
|
Seein' is Believin' |
Seein' Is Believin' Mental Health Retreats |
$30,000.00 |
|
Irwin A. & Robert D. Goodman Community Center, Inc. |
Elementary Afterschool & Summer Programming |
$35,000.00 |
|
Urban Triage, Inc. |
Supporting Healthy Youth |
$35,000.00 |
|
YWCA Madison, Inc. |
Permanent Affordable Housing for Single Women |
$30,000.00 |
|
Operation Fresh Start |
Operation Fresh Start Legacy |
$30,000.00 |
|
Freedom, Inc |
Free to Be: Safety from Sexual Violence |
$40,000.00 |
|
Focused Interruption |
Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs (HVIPs) Community Partner |
$210,000.00 |
|
Total: |
$410,000.00 |
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County on behalf of Public Health Madison and Dane County authorizes the Director of Public Health, or their designee, to accept and distribute the funding, sign the contract with the above selected vendors, and adjust the Public Health budget in the amount of $410,000.
Drafted by: Ahmad Moghadam
Introduced: 2/72024
Action: