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Dept/ Agency: Health and Community Wellness
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Sub-Recipient Agreement
Purpose: To improve the City’s crisis response system by enhancing existing co-responder teams to effectively provide trauma-informed comprehensive community-based behavioral health crisis services
Entity Name/Address: Circle of Life, 55 Tillinghast Street, Newark, New Jersey 07108
Grant Amount: $724,424.00
Contract Amount: $50,000.00
City Contribution: $0.00
Other Funding Source/Amount: $0.00
Grant/Contract Period: Grant funds to be expended no later than September 29, 2026
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ( ) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant (X) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
Additional Information:
To enter into and execute an Sub-Recipient Agreement with Circle of Life to provide Grant Funds for mental and behavioral health services through various programs, focusing on emergency response, health, housing, and independence for individuals experiencing mental health emergencies, including those who are homeless.
Budget Code- 051-G26-H26N0-A-72090-B2026.
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WHEREAS, on July 25, 2022, the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services, on behalf of the City of Newark (“City”), in collaboration with non-profits, Bridges Outreach Inc. and Mental Health Association (“co-applicants”), applied for a grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services in the amount of Two Million Nine Hundred Three Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-Three Dollars and Zero Cents ($2,903,653.00) over a four (4) year project period from September 30, 2023 to September 29, 2027 to carry out the Community Crisis Response Partnership Project (“Project”); and
WHEREAS, on or about May 25, 2023, the City received an ini...
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