The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William is distributing money to help the community recover from the lasting impact of the pandemic.
Through a partnership with Prince William County, the organization plans to distribute $10 million from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) by 2024.
The focus of the grants were specified in a press release from the Prince William County Office of Communications. The press release details COVID-19 recovery efforts such as aiding in childcare costs, emergency shelter, hunger relief programs, and access to mental and behavioral health assistance.
In the first round, more than $6 million went toward grants ranging from $10,000 to $300,000, and were awarded to 33 organizations.
Such examples are organizations like George Mason University – which provides free mental health support to Prince William County residents – and ACTION in Community Through Service (ACTS) – which has a community feeding assistance program and offers counseling and childcare for those impacted by domestic violence.
The complete list of organizations that received COVID-19 recovery funding is shown below:
- ACTION in Community Through Service (ACTS)
- All Saint’s Church
- Blue Ribbon Results Academy
- BRAWS
- CASA
- Centro de Apoyo Familiar
- Crossroads Connection
- Edu Futuro
- First Home Alliance
- Formed Families Forward
- George Mason University
- Grace Life Community Church
- Greater Prince William Health Center
- HireGround
- Muslim Association of Virginia
- New Creatures-In-Christ Ministries
- Northern Virginia Family Service
- Northern Virginia Food Rescue
- Northern Virginia Veterans Association
- Postpartum Support Virginia
- Prince William County Community Foundation
- St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church Triangle
- St. Thomas United Methodist Church
- Streetlight Community Outreach Ministries
- Tenants and Workers United
- The Arc of Greater Prince William
- The Good News Community Food Kitchen
- The House
- The Women’s Center
- Virginia Community Food Connections
- Woodbridge First Church of the Nazarene (Woodbridge Nazarene)
- Woodbridge Workers Committee
- Youth For Tomorrow New Life Center
The second round of money will be administered in early 2023. A Zoom call will be held on April 29 at 10 a.m. Community members are invited to attend the meeting and visit the Humane Services Alliance website to sign up or learn additional information.
The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William is a nonprofit that seeks to aid residents in the community by collaborating with human service providers.
This article is written by Contributing Writers Lily Brown and Nicholas Nohe.
