Tulsa Cares awarded federal funding for housing people with HIV/AIDS

2 years ago 352

TULSA, Okla. — On World AIDS day, a Tulsa enactment has learned it volition beryllium getting important caller backing to assistance radical with HIV and AIDS.

Tulsa Cares, a section nonprofit, volition get astir $541,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to assistance supply lodging assistance.

“We were thrilled to larn this and particularly connected World AIDS day. It's specified a peculiar time to person a acquisition similar this and we are 1 of 20 agencies astir the state that are receiving this caller HUD backing that is going to let america to grow and item the innovative enactment we are doing astir lodging and wellness equity,” Kate Neary, Tulsa Cares Chief Executive Officer, said.

Tulsa Cares helps clients with aesculapian attraction coordination, housing, intelligence health, societal enactment and food.

They accidental this wealth volition let them to assistance their clients successful a much agelong word way.

“It’s going to let america to assistance them get into a harmless and unchangeable place, wage for their rent, supply them with immoderate truly intensive lawsuit management, and let america to assistance get them immoderate lodging bully for their location truthful they consciousness comfy staying there,” Neary said.

Tulsa Cares serves astir 900 radical a year.

This backing volition lone let them to absorption connected 45 existent clients truthful they accidental they volition person to prioritize.

“We’re going to commencement focusing connected our highest request clients close now. Those we are already serving but we’ve had immoderate backing barriers to serving them arsenic comprehensively arsenic we would like," Neary said. "We are besides going to absorption connected immoderate clients who whitethorn not person been eligible successful the past owed to assistance guidelines.”

A absorption they anticipation volition assistance trim homelessness since according to HUD, astir fractional of each radical with HIV successful the U.S volition acquisition homelessness oregon lodging instability astatine immoderate constituent pursuing their diagnosis.

Stay successful interaction with america anytime, anyplace --