The funds are being made available via a pass-through account from the Riverside County Department of Housing & Workforce Solutions, which receives homeless aid grants from the federal and state governments. “That is our heart - to reach out to these people and give them hope that there is an opportunity to change.” “We are really, really blessed to partner on this program,” Victory Outreach Senior Pastor Dell Castro said. Officials said that since the program went into full swing during the first week of May, five inmates signed up to receive assistance.Īccording to the city, a total of 25 people were contacted by Victory Outreach staff, but the majority of them declined services. “When I became mayor, I launched a multi-pronged approach to the homeless crisis - an approach that includes intervention, as well as prevention,” Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson said “If we can focus on preventing people from becoming homeless, we’ve addressed the issue at its core, and Project Connect does just that.” “Project Connect” was approved by the Riverside City Council in January, leading to an agreement with Victory Outreach Church to manage “reentry services” for eligible inmates released from the downtown jail. RIVERSIDE (CNS) – Roughly a half dozen detainees released from the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside without a place to sleep and at risk of homelessness have received assistance under an outreach program implemented earlier this year, officials said Friday.
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