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• Supported employment and housing services
• Daily living skills
• Self help programs
• Parenting skills
• On-site mental health and substance abuse treatment
• Crisis counseling
• Medication management
• Coordination of care and support services
  

BayCare Behavioral Health and the Homeless Emergency Project will be reserving 20 percent of the program's capacity for veterans of the armed services and their families including veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Working together on this grant helps us take the services we currently provide to the homeless community to the next level," said Fyfe. "We currently partner with the BayCare Health System and BayCare Behavioral Health through Morton Plant Hospital's mental health outreach program which provides onsite services to our clients, so applying for the grant was a natural extension of that partnership."

About Homeless Emergency Project (HEP)

Homeless Emergency Project is the oldest and largest provider of emergency housing and support services in Pinellas County. Through the provision of emergency, transitional and permanent supportive housing, HEP provides lasting solutions to ending homelessness in our community. As part of our mission to help the homeless, HEP operates a 300-bed facility where emergency and transitional housing is provided for the temporarily homeless as well as permanent supportive housing for mentally disabled individuals and families. Since the inception of HEP, more than 78% of clients have secured permanent and/or independent housing. On the web, http://www.ethep.org.

About BayCare Behavioral Health

As part of BayCare Health System, the largest community-based health system in the region, BayCare Behavioral Health is committed to clinical excellence, innovation
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