Executive TRI-cap rsvp will have an estimated 195 volunteers serving during the grant period of 4/1/21 through 3/31/24

This Project Grant award of $253,611 from the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management will fund the AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) over three years from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The award recipient, Dubois-Pike-Warrick Economic Opportunity Committee, Inc. doing business as Tri-Cap, will utilize an estimated 195 volunteers to deliver services focused on health, veterans and military families, education, the environment, and capacity building within Dubois, Pike, and Warrick counties in Indiana. Specifically, volunteers will provide services allowing approximately 150 homebound seniors and older adults with disabilities and 200 economically disadvantaged individuals to live independently through the end of the grant period. Activities will include assisting with access to healthcare, aging in place resources, addressing obesity and lack of food access. The $50k in federal funding will be supplemented by $36,541 in non-federal resources to support these RSVP program goals.

Service activities will include veterans and military families, caring for infants under other education service, at risk ecosystem recycling and reusing projects under environmental stewardship, and other capacity building community priorities. Healthy futures is the primary focus area and the grant will assist with meeting health needs within the service area of dubois, pike, and warrick counties, indiana to include access to care, aging in place, and obesity and food. To achieve performance goals for all three grant years, unduplicated volunteers will be placed in outcome-based service activities that will support the ability of homebound, older adults and individuals with disabilities to live independently and assist individuals with access to food resources, and whoever else may have the need within the service area. These activities will mirror the core principles identified by cncs which are to identify and invest in community solutions; engage americans in service; support community evidence-based programs and leverage public-private collaborations. At the end of the three year grant cycle, an estimated 150 homebound, senior citizens, and older adults living with disabilities, and (200) economically disadvantaged individuals (unduplicated) in this three county service area will receive services that allow them to live independently and experience increased household food security, increased social ties and perceived social support. The cncs federal investment of $50,000.00 will be supplemented by $36,541.00 in non-federal resources.