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Austin Public Health: CSBG funds support neighborhood centers, avoid evictions and food distributions; reauthorization bill introduced in Congress
Summary
Austin Public Health’s Neighborhood Services Unit reported on CSBG-funded neighborhood center services, saying staff helped 254 households avoid eviction through March and served nearly 23,385 unduplicated people through food distributions.
A Neighborhood Services Unit presentation to the Community Development Commission on May 13 summarized Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) activities, outcomes and operational updates.
Angel Zambrano, Neighborhood Services Unit (Austin Public Health), said the CSBG funds support basic needs, case management, preventive health and employment support services delivered through neighborhood centers across Austin and Travis County. Zambrano said the unit’s transition goal from the state for the grant year is 43 documented transitions out of poverty (clients who obtain and maintain living-wage employment for three months); the presentation reported five transitions so far this year and additional cases in progress.
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