Resolution for grant funds:

WHEREAS each year in the Interior of Alaska, there are hundreds of youth without safe shelter, and youth reported as runaway, and youth lacking access to resources to meet their basic needs and support to find stable, appropriate housing and because there are no other shelters designed to specifically meet the needs of runaway, abandoned, and homeless youth in the Interior of Alaska,

WHEREAS, The Door, an emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth is established to meet this gap in services by providing safe shelter, basic needs, supervision, and support for runaway and homeless youth with a goal of family reunification as possible,

WHEREAS, through the implementation of Homeless Assistance Program (BHAP) funds and/or Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG), Fairbanks Youth Advocates will operate The Door, emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:

That the Fairbanks Youth Advocates Board of Directors authorizes the submittal of a grant application to the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, and all documents to secure grant funds and implement the approved grant project.

ADOPTED this 30th day of May, 2019, by the Fairbanks Youth Advocates Board of Directors