STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Human and Social Needs
AGENDA DATE: January 12, 2022
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): N/A
DEPARTMENT: Office of Community Care
EXECUTIVE: Kimberly Bizor Tolbert
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SUBJECT
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Authorize (1) the acceptance of a cost-share grant from the Corporation for National Community Service (CNCS) to provide four AmeriCorps VISTA members to perform volunteer services to strengthen and supplement efforts to eliminate poverty and poverty-related human, social and environmental problems in support of the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) for the period January 16, 2022 through January 14, 2023, with a one-year renewal option; (2) the execution of the cost-share agreement with CNCS and all terms, conditions, and documents required by the agreement; (3) an amount up to $15,312.00 in WIC Program Funds to serve as cost-share for the VISTAs; and (4) execution of a cost-share agreement with the Child Poverty Action Lab ("CPAL") and an agreement with University of North Texas at Dallas to implement the program and acceptance of up to $15,312.00 from CPAL to reimburse the City - Not to exceed $15,312.00 - Financing: Health and Human Services Grant Funds
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BACKGROUND
The CNCS's AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) is a program focused on bringing low-income individuals and communities out of poverty. Since 2014, multiple City of Dallas departments have participated in the AmeriCorps VISTA Program, with the first being the Mayor's 2016 GrowSouth Initiative. Dallas County has one of the highest child poverty rates with 73% of students qualifying for free and reduced-price lunch, which is an indicator of children living in households 130% below the Federal poverty level. This is an area of unmet poverty-related community need in Dallas County because only 39% of the eligible population participates in the WIC Program.
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