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Food Bank/Home-delivered Meals
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HRSA/HAB Category Definition:
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Food bank/home-delivered meals include the provision of actual food or meals. It does not include finances to purchase food or meals. The provision of essential household supplies such as hygiene items and household-cleaning supplies should be included in this item.
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Source: Definition provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB). 2009. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006 Definitions for Eligible Services. Rockville, Md.: HRSA HAB, August 20
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Category Notes:
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Clarifications
The following definition clarifications are a result of a conference call involving representatives of the grantee (BCHD), Greater Baltimore HIV Health Services Planning Council (PC), PC support office (IGS) and HRSA on May 28, 2008 (IGS 2008a).
• Vouchers under this category include emergency food assistance as well as non-emergency food purchases.
• All services directed to the HIV-infected client.
The following clarification regarding Emergency Financial Assistance was distributed from HRSA on April 8, 2010 (HRSA 2010a).
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds may be used to provide Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) as an allowable support service.
• The decision-makers deliberately and clearly must set priorities and delineate and monitor what part of the overall allocation for emergency assistance is obligated for transportation, food, essential utilities and /or prescription assistance. Careful monitoring of expenditures within a category of “emergency assistance” is necessary to assure that planned amounts for specific services are being implemented, and to indicate when reallocations may be necessary.
• In addition, Grantees and planning councils/consortia must develop standard limitation on the provision of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funded emergency assistance to eligible individuals/households and mandate their consistent application by all contractors. It is expected that all other sources of funding in the community for emergency assistance will be effectively utilized and that any allocation of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds to these purposes will be the payer-of-last-resort, and for limited amounts, limited use and limited periods of time.
The following clarification regarding purchase of non-food products was distributed from HRSA on April 8, 2010 (HRSA 2010a).
Funds awarded under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program may be used to purchase essential non-food household products as part of a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funded Food Bank support service. These include essential items such as:
• Personal hygiene products,
• Household cleaning supplies, and/or
• Water filtration/purification devices (either portable filter/pitcher combinations or filters attached to a single water tap) in communities/areas where recurrent problems with water purity exist. Such devices (including their replacement filter cartridges) purchased with Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds must meet National Sanitation Foundation standards for absolute cyst removal of particles less than one micron. This policy does not permit installation of permanent systems for filtration of all water entering a private residence.
Funds may NOT be used for household appliances, pet foods or other non-essential products.
The following clarification was distributed by HRSA on April 8, 2010 (HRSA 2010a).
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds may be used to provide Emergency Financial Assistance (EFA) as an allowable support service.
• The decision-makers deliberately and clearly must set priorities and delineate and monitor what part of the overall allocation for emergency assistance is obligated for transportation, food, essential utilities and /or prescription assistance. Careful monitoring of expenditures within a category of “emergency assistance” is necessary to assure that planned amounts for specific services are being implemented, and to indicate when reallocations may be necessary.
• In addition, Grantees and planning councils/consortia must develop standard limitation on the provision of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funded emergency assistance to eligible individuals/households and mandate their consistent application by all contractors. It is expected that all other sources of funding in the community for emergency assistance will be effectively utilized and that any allocation of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funds to these purposes will be the payer-of-last-resort, and for limited amounts, limited use and limited periods of time.
History
Funding for emergency financial assistance for food, formerly tracked as a separate line item under a separate category, is now included under the food bank/home-delivered meals category.
Current Directives
For the following categories: emergency financial assistance (EFA), early intervention services (EIS), food bank/home-delivered meals, legal, medical case management and outpatient ambulatory health services.
Ratified on October 16, 2007: To give guidance to the administrative agent on how to apportion funds to those categories that have subset activities based on percentages utilized by each subset.
The administrative agent will divide the allocation according to the percentage of those subset activities based on the service utilization percentage of each sub activity. The AA will report out by total category performance and expenditure and by each subset performance and expenditure (IGS 2007b).
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