Grant funds to support homeless and mental health programs

San Bernardino County’s Board of Supervisors officially accepted $526,611 in federal grant funds during the regular board meeting this week.

The funding, part of the Federal McKinney Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness program (PATH), will benefit an estimated 300 San Bernardino County residents at risk of becoming homeless.

The state awarded the funds to the county for the provision of services to individuals who have a serious mental illness, or who have co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use disorders, and who are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless.

The County Department of Behavioral Health will use the funding to provide targeted outreach, planning and coordination for housing services, linkage to behavioral health services including medication support, job training, education services and case management services to an estimated 300 clients at an annual estimated program cost of $2,340 per individual.