Specifications include, but are not limited to: Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners (BCC), Community Services Department (CSD) invites eligible entities to submit proposals for the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Program for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023- 2024 (October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024). Proposed ESG programs will work to improve the number and quality of emergency shelters for homeless families, help operate these shelters, provide essential services to shelter residents and rapidly re-house homeless individuals and families. Street outreach component. Subject to the expenditure limit in 24 CFR § 576.100(b), ESG funds may be used for costs of providing essential services necessary to reach out to unsheltered homeless people; connect them with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services; and provide urgent, non-facility-based care to unsheltered homeless people who are unwilling or unable to access emergency shelter, housing, or an appropriate health facility. For the purposes of this section, the term ‘‘unsheltered homeless people’’ means individuals and families who qualify as homeless under paragraph (1)(i) of the ‘‘homeless’’ definition under 24 CFR § 576.2. The eligible costs and requirements for essential services consist of Engagement, Case Management, Emergency Health Services, Emergency Mental Health Services, Transportation and Services for Special Populations. Emergency shelter component. Subject to the expenditure limit in 24 CFR § 576.100(b), ESG funds may be used for costs of providing essential services to homeless families and individuals in emergency shelter, renovating buildings to be used as emergency shelter for homeless families and individuals, and operating emergency shelters. This consists of Essential Services, Renovations, Shelter Operations and Assistance required under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (URA).
