Personnel Moves: Nonprofit Exec Paige Flink to Retire From The Family Place
Plus, North Dallas Bank & Trust Co continues to make leadership changes, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas welcomes new board members, and more.
By Kelsey Vanderschoot
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January 26, 2021
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Paige Flink
Longtime CEO of local nonprofit The Family Place Paige Flink will retire this year after a replacement is named and transitioned into her role. Flink has held leadership roles with the nonprofit since 1991. During that time, she grew its ranks from 38 to 190 employees and doubled the number of its facilities.
Under Flink’s leadership, The Family Place has grown from an emergency shelter with 40 beds and one counseling office to three shelters providing 177 shelter beds each night including the only shelter for men and children in the state and three counseling offices in Dallas and Collin Counties.
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Texas is expected to receive about $1.9 billion in federal rental assistance funding approved by Congress in December.
With rental assistance on the way, communities are scrambling to get ready to actually hand out the money to people who need it.
Two days after Christmas, President Donald Trump signed legislation that would send $25 billion-worth of assistance to struggling renters across America. It was part of that big coronavirus relief package passed by Congress.
Jessica Galleshaw, director of Dallas’ Office of Community Care, said it feels like she’s building a plane in mid-air. Her office will deploy $40 million of incoming federal rental assistance.
Need financial help as the pandemic continues? Here’s how to get assistance to avoid homelessness, Texans
Second round of funds $61M across the state aims to help prevent homelessness
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HOUSTON – There’s a new source of help for people facing homelessness due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs has announced more than $61 million has been awarded to approximately 50 organizations statewide to assist people experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness.
Here are the steps outlined on that page:
STEP 1: Select the type of help you need – This includes reduced-rent apartments, home repair and accessibility modifications, long-term rent payment help, utility bill payment help, emergency and homeless services, weatherization, help buying a home and homebuyer education and counseling, as well as a number of other resources.
An annual census of homeless people in Dallas and Collin counties that helps the city determine how its homeless programs are working will still take place during the COVID-19 pandemic, although at a later date, over a longer time period and with far fewer people doing the counting, according to a city memo.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development requires communities that receive certain federal grants intended to combat homelessness to count sheltered homeless individuals annually. Unsheltered counts are required every other year, but many counties, including Dallas and Collin, do both annually.
Usually, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, the lead agency for the homeless response system in Dallas and Collin counties, gathers 1,750 volunteers to be trained to conduct the Point-in-Time count in a single night. Cities across the country commonly conduct this survey on a single morning or night in January, hoping cold weather will drive more people into shelters, making
Thousands of Texans still not able to afford rent as eviction moratorium expires at end of December
By Juan Pablo Garnham/The Texas Tribune
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Elsa Ramirez, and her daughters Josseline, 11, and Francheska, 4, stand outside their home in Houston on December 14, 2020. She and her three kids have managed to stay housed in her two-bedroom apartment, thanks to a federal eviction moratorium which
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It’s been a rough year for Elsa Ramírez.
The Houston woman lost the financial and emotional support of her husband, who was deported. She was infected with COVID-19, forcing her to isolate for two weeks and lose hours as seamstress.