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Commissioners accept CASA capacity and IDOH STI grants totaling $204,474
Summary
The board accepted a $22,706 CASA capacity-building grant from the Indiana Supreme Court Office of Judicial Administration and a $181,768 award from the Indiana Department of Health to support STI programming.
Tippecanoe County commissioners on Feb. 18 voted to accept two grants: a $22,706 capacity-building grant for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) from the Indiana Supreme Court Office of Judicial Administration, and an award of $181,768 from the Indiana Department of Health to support sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention and control programming.
A commissioner described the CASA grant as discretionary funds ‘‘to build the capacity of the program to serve more children and eliminate the number of children in waiting.’’ The board voted to accept the grant by motion and voice vote.
The board also accepted the IDOH award for continued support of STI programming, again by motion and voice vote. Commissioners did not provide additional detail about the grant terms, matching requirements or the expected timeline for use during the public meeting; those documents are on file with the commissioners' office.
County staff said the CASA funds must be used to expand program capacity; other specifics and reporting requirements were not discussed on the record during the meeting.
