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Travis County details new supportive-services contracts for older adults and people with disabilities
Summary
Health and Human Services presented new fiscal-year 2025 contracts for supportive services aimed at older adults and people with disabilities, describing program scopes, partner agencies, performance measures and data-collection plans; commissioners asked about eligibility and equity in outreach.
Travis County Health and Human Services on Tuesday updated the Commissioners Court on a new portfolio of supportive-services contracts aimed at helping low-income older adults (55+) and people of any age with disabilities remain independent and engaged in the community.
The county’s division director for research and planning, Cori Darling, said the contracts are new for fiscal year 2025 and include an option for up to four renewals through fiscal year 2029. The contracts fund a range of services — guardianship and alternatives to guardianship, home-delivered and congregate meals, case management, respite for families, wellness and fitness programming, audiology services and assistive devices — delivered by local nonprofit partners.
Darling said the county organized social-service investments into nine issue areas and began a multi-year procurement cycle in 2023. Erin…
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