Sharing the link (https://covid-19-response-columbus.hub.arcgis.com/) with community partners and residents. Starting JUNE 9, 2020. Our COVID-19 hotline can provide additional questions community members have and testing information. Social Work Helpline is also another resource clients can utilize if they need linkage and referrals. NSS team is working on updating June’s COVID19 resource list and I will send it out once it is available. And it will also be on the website (link above).
Some of the things included in our COVID-19 Resource list —
NEW TESTING SITES—Please see attached document. This is very helpful because now we have additional testing sites where the need is high in our community. No one will be turned away for inability to pay and it is on the bus routes. (filed in documents)
IMPACT HOPE FUND Rental/Mortgage Assistance is available to residents of Columbus and Franklin Co. for emergency financial assistance. Please visit https://www.impactca.org/getinvolved/connect/impactconnect.html
SNAP Benefits: Apply online at https://benefits.ohio.gov/
** If you have a child in kindergarten through twelfth grade in your household who was receiving free or reduced-price meals while in school, your child is eligible for the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as a result of the school closure. Please read https://jfs.ohio.gov/ocomm/pdf/PEBT-flyer.pdf for additional information.
**NEW PRC Plus Rental Assistance Program effect June 1 through Sept. 30, 2020 or until funding is exhausted.
Franklin County’s Prevention, Retention, and Contingency (PRC) Plus Rental Assistance program provides one-time rental assistance payments for eligible families struggling to meet rent or facing eviction as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
