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-2- Past Community Development Block Grant funds of $500 from the City of Ramsey during the last fiscal year have been used to subsidize otherwise uncompensated care for patients and clients from the City of Ramsey. HI. PROJECT REQUIRE1V/ENTS The project will encompass the use of apprcxknately $14~000 of corem,miry development assistance, from the wrious cornm.'-~.~ties of A~?:a County. We are requesting $2,000 from the City of ~',amsey. The project is des:'~ed to supplement public so,ices available to Iow mid moderate income clientele who would not otherwise receive professional care. The national objective is listed unde: public service v.-~th the' ovecall goal of building he~.Ithier communities throu~ the availaLiii.ty of professi~mal services Ocr those wl~-~ are less fo~c. nate and to ~.~e that immediate access is available for :.'ssues relate,2 to behavioral health c~:.z. The eligible: ~rv~ce categcry under fede~ '-.~ regulatim~ is 570.201(E) et al. :: "?i/: PROJ_ECT I~ENEF!2?,.-ACTIV1T~ Family Life Center i:¢ located in do~ntown Ancka and serves pSmarily the northern and cen,-al parts of A, oka County, including tl;,; City of Rarnzey. The Center is a commtaaty mental health facility, a non-profit corporation under state and federal law wht>se mission is to serve low income, chro~.,;:ally mentally ill persons, lZ~my of the chronically men/al,y ill patients are jobless, ,,Sthout famil)", and/or other support systems !o help them. They depend on agencies like Family Life to provide engoing services, such as day treatment, meal/cation management, and Ixelp with problems of daily living to keep them from hospitalization. Many patie~ts suffer from long- standing depression, sclfizophrenic, panic disorder, or other illnesses which can be most debilitating. With proper treatment, suicidal depression can be eliminated or reduced, family violence can be controlled, community problems dealing with aberrant behavior can be quickly dealt with, and a healthy cormnaunity maintained. Many of the problems of behavioral health care (mental health) show up in the community as police calls, or domestic violence, or aberrant behavior, seniors who can no longer live alone, and prevention against family break up. Behavioral health problems exist in the overall community, in the work place, and in schools. We provide the professional resource to wh/ch families and individuals in the City of Ramsey can be referred. In the last fiscal year, our statistics show that we served approximately 70 patients who list their residence as the City of Ramsey, and who made approximately 650 visits to the Center. As population increases, we expect these numbers to be greater in the following year.