More than a year-and-a-half after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, many of the island\u2019s residents who fled to the States are still struggling to remake their lives. The East Hartford YMCA recently received a grant from the state legislature to help these individuals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\ngrant, totaling $40,000, will be distributed to individuals who moved\nto the community in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria which devastated\nPuerto Rico in 2017. The YMCA is looking for evacuees living in East\nHartford in need of services.<\/p>\n\n\n
The\npurpose of the funds received by the YMCA includes increasing the\nnumber of evacuees living in long-term, safe, affordable housings;\nconnecting them to appropriate service providers; subsidizing\nvocational and educational programs that will lead to employment with\nbetter incomes; and ensuring 100 percent access to child care.<\/p>\n\n\n
Many\nof the evacuees are living in hotels paid for by state or federal\nagency funds. Individuals living in hotels are considered homeless.\nThe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u2019s Assessment\nReport to Congress, published in December 2018, reports the homeless\npopulation in Connecticut increased 17 percent from 2017 to 2018 to\nmore than 3,200 individuals. This included a 44 percent increase in\nhomeless families with children.\n<\/p>\n\n\n
The\nreport was based on a count done on Jan. 23, 2018 when nearly 600\nlocal homeless individuals were natural disaster evacuees.\n<\/p>\n\n\n
The\nfunds come from the State Legislative Hispanic Human Resources\nDevelopment \u2014 Hurricane Evacuee for Fiscal Year 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n
Individuals\ninterested in applying for funding should contact Laura Floyd,\nexecutive director of the East Hartford YMCA, at 860-289-6612.<\/p>\n\n\n
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