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Lafayette Communities That Care asks city to be EPIC backbone; council asks staff to review and seek deadline extension
Summary
Lafayette Communities That Care asked the city to be the administrative backbone for a five-year EPIC prevention grant; council asked staff to review legal and fiscal obligations and to seek a possible deadline extension rather than committing at the meeting.
Representatives of Lafayette Communities That Care (CTC) asked Lafayette City Council on Oct. 28 to serve as the official applicant and administrative backbone for Colorado's EPIC prevention grant, a five-year opportunity that would provide roughly $410,000 per year to fund youth mental-health, family-connection and substance-use prevention programs.
Ignacio Perez, CTC director, said the coalition would continue to lead programmatic work, that Bridges of Opportunity (a local nonprofit)…
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