Kitsap Community Resources

4b. Housing and community support division:energy and weatherization - served households and the utility cost savings is an average of 35%. Clients with asthma have shared they are experiencing a decrease in medicine use and hospital visits. Provided financial assistance with utility bills for low-income kitsap clients. Housing and homeless - provided residents with services such as rental assistance, rapid re-housing, emergency shelter, transitional housing, case management and homeless childcare. Clients received transportation assistance.during covid, kcr was the main provider in providing assistance throughout the community for rental, energy and housing assistance with erap, trap and keda funding.kinship caregivers - provided financial assistance to grandparents and relatives raising children by assisting them to obtain resources to help stabilize the family. Emergent needs includes clothing purchases, food, childcare referral, and relocation costs.veterans assistanceprovided financial assistance and guidance to veterans in need on behalf of kitsap county and the local veterans advisory board. Vets received assistance with food, utilities, medical bills, car repairs and funeral costs.

4c. Employment/education/community jobs division:employment and training - local businesses and kitsap residents received on-the-job-training, career assistance, ged readiness classes, financial literacy and improvement classes, vocational training assistance and job placement through the wioa (workforce innovation and opportunity act), workfirst, best (business education support training services), and other grants and contracts. Americorps - seventeen service members served host sites and engaged in 11 community projects. Projects included food collection for the bremerton backpack brigade; hygiene kits made for kitsap connect; seed packets through kitsap harvest; and food distribution through kitsap conservation district to mention a few. Fresh and healthy cooking for families - offered classes and resources to 55 families to help family members build positive family relationships and create healthy home environments. Each family receives a tool kit of 30 household kitchen items.

4d. Americorps and community services americorps is a national community service volunteer program in which individuals volunteer in their community for eleven months. Kcr americorps offers community service positions in activities including homeland security, elementary and early childhood education, domestic violence prevention, criminal justice, and employment readiness.

Food services program provides well balanced meals to economically disadvantaged individuals and families within the kcr service delivery area.

The total revenue and expenses for other program services involve the new kcr community services center, staff activities, and remaining balances after interagency transactions are eliminated.