A Lima outreach program is being awarded grant money through the US Department of Justice.
The Lima Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program, or UMADAOP, is receiving $75,000 as part of the Second Chance Act Community-Based Re-Entry grant program. UMADAOP says that money will be going towards expanding and supporting the partnerships they have throughout the area that work to help people that are coming home from an institution.
"With the pandemic, people have so many more needs than ever before, and to be able to wrap a case management plan around people, to look at what those needs are and begin to help them to do that, to be successful, because the more that they become successful, better the chance that they have staying home and not returning to the institution," said Myrtle Boykin-Lighton, executive director of UMADAOP.
This grant program was originally co-authored by Ohio Senator Rob Portman.
