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II III IV FAMILY LIFE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER Project: Family Life Center community Initiative is to care for Iow-income, chronically mentally ill. Project Activity: Family Life Mental Health Center located in downtown Anoka and servicing primarily the Northern and Central parts of Anoka County including the City of Ramsey requests funds to assist Iow-income, chronically mentally ill persons to continue services. Many of the chronically ill patients are jobless, without family and/or other support systems to help them. They depend on agencies like Family Life to provide ongoing services such as day treatment, medication management, and help with problems of daily living to keep them out of hospitalization. Many suffer from long-standing depression, schizophrenia, anger or other illnesses which can be most debilitating. Family Life Mental Health Center has been operating in Anoka County since incorporating as a nonprofit in 1978. As a nonprofit serving primarily Iow- income persons without access to a full array of insurance or welfare benefits, the agency ends up subsidizing much of the care of this population. To this end we request your help with CDBG grant monies to replace some long worn furniture, unstable chairs, desks, tables and other furnishings which have been here since 1978. Because of financial difficulties we have deferred replace- ment of these needed items. Your assistance with grant money would be much appreciated. We served persons of Iow income from the City of Ramsey in 1997. 44 families for 200+ visits 25 were very Iow income 10 were low income Project Duration: We expect this to be a one to two year project to replace much of the facility furnishings. Last year we averaged 14,000 visits by clients to the agency and we estimate that the total cost of upgrading of furnishings would be in the range of $20,000. Project Request: Our project request is for one year, perhaps into a second year, depending upon funds available.