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Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi awarded grants totaling $225,000 to support three front-line community organizations serving people experiencing homelessness, including a $75,000 grant to Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Centers on Maui.

The ACLU of Hawai‘i released a report today titled “Decriminalizing Houselessness in Hawai‘i,” which shows how criminalizing people’s status of being unsheltered causes irreparable harm to individuals, wastes public resources, dehumanizes those experiencing houselessness in the eyes of the public, and directly undermines the government’s investments in housing and supportive services.

Maui County has extended the application deadline to Monday at noon for the West Maui seat on the new Commission on Healing Solutions for Homelessness.

Hawaiʻi will receive $12.9 million in federal grant funding for homeless service providers across the state through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Program.

The County of Maui Department of Housing and Human Concerns, Grants Management Division, is seeking applications from qualified private nonprofit and for-profit organizations providing or planning to provide social welfare, youth services, alcohol and substance abuse, homelessness, youth centers and other public service programs within the county for grant funds for Fiscal Year 2017 and 2018.