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PROPOSAL DETAILS <br />1. Applicant Profile and Qualifications: Tell us about your organization including the <br />purpose of your work, your goals, any history, and experience working in homeless <br />and/or affordable housing services, experience managing public funds, and anything <br />else that describes the organization's qualifications. (250 words max.) <br />Merit Resource Services is currently contracted with Greater Columbia Behavior Health <br />as one of a handful of publicly funded outpatient Behavioral Health Providers, serving <br />not only Kittitas County but Yakima, Benton and Franklin Counties. We have been a <br />Medicaid and other public funded outpatient substance use disorder provider for over 30 <br />years. In 2017 we were dually licensed for mental health services. Our experience in <br />managing public funds include contracts with Medicaid, Criminal Justice Treatment <br />Account, State only, Federal Block Grant, Apple Health, Kittitas County, Yakima County, <br />Educational Services District 105, United States Federal Probation, Yakima Nation, <br />Washington State Division of Social and Health Services as well as a multitude of other <br />public and private contracts. <br />We currently provide the only men's sober housing program in Kittitas County, operating <br />since 2013. We can serve up to four residents at a time and provide a live-in house <br />monitor. Since starting the program, we have housed 49 men. <br />As an organization, for the past two years, we receive one-two requests each month for <br />women's housing. We currently refer them to HopeSource, but understand there is a <br />significant lack of resources for many single women with little chance of stability without <br />support. <br />We have partnered with HopeSource for the last two years on a Consolidated Homeless <br />Grant and have been an active participant in the Homeless and Affordable Housing <br />Network since inception. <br />