This award funds the approved 2022?24 ARP senior demonstration program grant

Your 2022?24 statutory match requirement is 10% and your budgeted match is 10%. This grant award begins the first year of your proposed project period of performance. The FY22 ARP grant awards 24 months of funds beginning 07/01/22 through 6/30/24. This award action adds permanent funding to increase the stipend amount from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour and also includes a permanent administrative increase of $7850.00. These funding augmentations changes the total federal funding amount to $267,970. The area agency on aging, region 9 (AAA9) proposes to have 50 americorps seniors volunteers who will participate in addressing the community needs of elder justice, senior affordable housing/homelessness, as well as workforce development primarily in the AAA9 office in cambridge, ohio but also remotely throughout the nine served counties in the AAA9 service area (belmont, carroll, coshocton, guernsey, harrison, holmes, jefferson, muskingum, & tuscarawas). The primary focus area of this project is healthy futures. At the end of the two-year grant, americorps seniors volunteers will be responsible for increased awareness and support for community members regarding elder justice, increased number of senior affordable housing options and decreased likelihood of senior homelessness, as well as increase in number of students trained for the home health aide role lessening the workforce shortage. The americorps federal investment of $267,970 will be supplemented by $29,827 for a total of $297,797.