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Parental Involvement Programs

Housing

Nehemiah Housing Opportunity Grant Program

Provides an opportunity for families, who otherwise would not be financially able to realize their dream of owning a home, to increase the employment opportunities of the residents in neighborhoods where the housing is proposed and to create sound and attractive neighborhoods. Grants are open to private, non-profit organizations. There are six ranking criteria for eligible non-profit organizations who apply for funding. Program is funded through HUD field offices, (Appendix IX).

Joan Morgan
Office of Insured Single Family Housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20410

Public and Indian Housing Tenant Opportunity Program

This program encourages increased resident managed activities of public housing developments as a means of improving existing living conditions in public and Indian housing developments and provides flexibility of types of tenant opportunity programs to include tenant patrols, resident businesses, child care centers, and other social services programs. Public Housing Resident Councils (RCs)/Resident Management Corporations (RMCs), RCs/RMCs and Resident Organizations (ROs) of Indian Housing are eligible.

Christine Jenkins, Housing Management Specialist
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20410
(202) 708-3611

Public and Indian Housing Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP)

The purposes of the Public Housing Drug Elimination Program are to:

• Eliminate drug-related crime in and around the real property comprising public housing projects
  
• Encourage public housing agencies (PHAs) and Indian Housing Authorities (IHAs) to develop a plan that includes initiatives that can be sustained over a period of several years for addressing the problem of drug-related crime in and around the premises of the public and Indian housing developments proposed for funding under this part, and;
  
• Make available federal grants to help PHAs and IHAs carry out their plans.

Grants may be used for the following activities designed to reduce drug-related crime:

• employment of security personnel (contracted security guards, housing authority police)
  
• reimbursement of local law enforcement agencies for additional security and protective services (e.g., over and above the level of services the locality is already obligated to provide under its Cooperation Agreement with the PHA)
  
• physical improvements designed to enhance security
  
• employment of one or more individuals to investigate drug-related crime on or about the real property comprising any public or Indian housing project and to provide evidence relating to such crime in any administrative or judicial proceeding
  
• establishment of voluntary tenant patrols acting in cooperation with local law enforcement officials; and
  
• programs designed to reduce use of drugs in and around public and Indian housing developments, including drug prevention, intervention, referral, and treatment programs.

Grants are made available to public housing agencies and Indian Housing Authorities for use in eliminating drug-related crime.

Malcolm Maine
Crime Prevention & Security Division (CPSD)
Office of Community Relations and Involvement (OCRI)
Public and Indian Housing (PIH)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 Seventh Street. SW, Room 4116
Washington, DC 20410
(202) 708-1197

Public and Indian Housing Family Investment Centers Program

The Family Investment Program is designed to provide families living in public and Indian housing with better access to education and employment opportunities by: developing facilities in or near public housing for training and support services; mobilizing public and private resources to expand and improve the delivery of such services; providing funding for essential training and support services that cannot otherwise be funded; and improving the capacity of management to access the training and services that meet such needs, and ensure the long-term provision of such training and services. Public Housing Agencies and Indian Housing Authorities are eligible applicants under the FIC Program.

Ed Moses, Director
Office of Community Relations and Involvement
Public and Indian Housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Room 4102
451 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20410
(202) 619-8201

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