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PROPOSALOVAIL5 1. Applicant Profile and Qualifications: Tell us about your organization including the purpose of your work, your goals, any history, and experience working in homeless and/or affordable housing services, experience managing public funds, and anything else that describes the organization's qualifications. (250 words max.) Housing Authority of Kittitas County (HAKC) strives to enhance the Ellensburg community by creating decent, safe and affordable living environments that foster stability and self-sufficiency for people with low incomes. HAKC's goal is to partner with other organizations to offer an array of services and community activities to improve the lives of those we serve on top of providing housing. HAKC provides long-term, low income rental housing and rental assistance to approximately 400 family members. HAKC owns and operates 161 apartments in Ellensburg and Kittitas WA. HAKC is an independent public corporation with the ability and resources to successfully implement the collaboration of Housing Authority units with wrap around case management providcd by HopeSource and other supportive services through Elmview. HopeSource purpose is to protect those who cannot protect themselves and to encourage those who can. Our goals are to end homelessness in our community, and to support people on their way to building self-sufficient lives. HopeSource has a 50 year history as a private, non-profit community action agency operating in a rural environment, making a difference through programs that stabilize households in crisis including housing, nutrition, energy assistance, home weatherization, transportation, rental assistance, and youth recreation assistance. HopeSource administers 38 federal, state and local contracts including; the Consolidated Homeless Grant, Housing and Essential Needs, Supportive Services for Veteran Families, McKinney-Ventor, HUD, Rural Development, Housing Trust Fund, Housing Finance Commission, and private funding from the ROE Foundation, Mercer Creek Church, the Shoemaker Foundation, and the Suncadia Associate Fund. Elmview has provided support and training which enables people to find and keep jobs for more than 50 years. Elmview's Mission, is to equip people to identify and reach their maximum potential throughout their lives. To do so, the organization has developed expertise in working with people with a range of challenges to finding and keeping employment. Through the year, Elmview has developed positive relationships with employers in the public and private sectors --relationships which lead to employment which meet the vision and capacities of the people served the need of the employer to have a productive contributing workforce.