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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 />4