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SSBG TXX SFY 24-25 Grant Awards
Non-State Agencies
ALS Association Nevada Chapter- Improves quality of caregiving for PALS (people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis disease) through respite care.
- Funds a Community Healthcare Worker (CHW) to serve as a resource to promote, maintain and improve family and community health and working in a partnership with health care providers to improve access and delivery of care.
- Improves Medicaid recipients’ chronic disease management skills and engagement with primary health care and improve access to care.
- Helps increase permanency, wellbeing and safety for children in foster care, and maintain therapeutic mental health services for children and families (both biological and foster).
- Assist senior caregivers who have guardianship of children aged from birth to 18 by providing respite, opportunities, support and education – (ROSE) program.
- This funding enhances current program by providing iPads as assistive technology for assessments, instruction and ongoing mentoring for people with Autism in Southern Nevada.
- Reduces dependency and promotes self-sufficiency for low-income individuals living homeless or who are at-risk for homelessness.
Money Management International, Inc.
- Provides food assistance in three food pantries to food insecure individuals in Southern Nevada, working with clients to become self-sufficient and financially solvent.
- Provides respite care programs to assist families caring for children (in-home and in foster care) with developmental disabilities or special health needs.
- This funding enhances current Family Resource Center programming with the greater ability to serve and provide resources to an additional 70 families throughout the SFY 2025 program year.
- Prepares students with IDD with independent living skills and self-determinations skills to be a causal agent in their own lives and a productive member in society.
- Promotes safety, education support and normalcy for children in care, while supporting reunification and permanency efforts through direct services, training and professional development.
State Agencies - Department of Health and Human Services
Aging and Disability Services Division
Adult Protective Services (APS)- Receives and investigates statewide reports of abuse, neglect, self-neglect, exploitation, isolation and abandonment for vulnerable persons aged 18-59, in addition to persons 60 years and older, collectively referred to as vulnerable adults.
- Provides planning, advocacy and community services to support older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers to maintain community-based living.
Division of Child and Family Services
Child Welfare- Provides foster care services for children and community awareness and recruitment for adoption and foster care.
- Enhances and sustains children’s mental health system to adequately address the mental health treatment services for youth in Northern Nevada that are served through the Division of Child and Family Services with their primary location in Reno.
- Enhances and sustains children’s mental health system to adequately address the mental health treatment services for you in Southern Nevada that are served through the Division of Child and Family Services with four Neighborhood Family Service Centers throughout the Las Vegas valley.
Division of Public and Behavioral Health
Community Health Nursing- Supports and improves health outcomes for individuals, families and adolescents in the rural and frontier communities of Nevada through the provision family planning, education, and related preventative health services.
- Provides housing services, daily living training, outpatient treatment, and supervision to adults diagnosed with serious mental illness, and substance abuse treatment services for adults in Southern Nevada.