TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Kelly Olivera, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Christopher Cauley, MPA, Economic and Community Development Director
Albert Baker - Assistant Economic & Community Development Director
DATE: February 10, 2025
RE:
Title
Day Resource Center FY25 Second Quarter Administrative Report
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
District 2
b
Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal II: The City of Fayetteville will have a Responsive City Government supporting a diverse and viable economy.
• Objective 2.2: To invest in community places to ensure revitalization and increase quality of life
Goal IV: Desirable Place to Live, Work and Recreate
• Objective 4.6: To reduce poverty and homelessness.
Executive Summary:
The Day Resource Center is a multi-disciplinary day center for people at risk or currently experiencing homelessness. The center at 128 South King Street opened on August 21, 2023. In May 2024, Council authorized the engagement of Manna Dream Center as the operator of the DRC with a one-year contract beginning July 1, 2024. Manna Dream Center has submitted the second quarter update for the City Council.
Background:
The Day Resource Center is part of the City’s transformational and critical initiatives aimed at reducing poverty and homelessness. The center is a $6.99 million project entirely grant-funded through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) via the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR), American Rescue Plan Act and State Capital Infrastructure Grants. The purpose is to provide a public facility that allows for resiliency within our City by increasing disaster response capacity in Fayetteville and Cumberland County, centralizing service providers, and removing barriers during non-emergency times as a day resource center. Manna as the operator has rebranded the city facility to Fayetteville Cares Day Resource Center, launched a website, and expanded services, while maintaining a clean and safe environment for individuals and families to receive critical services.
Issues/Analysis:
The Fayetteville Day Resource Center reports significant successes. The following presentation shares some of those successes and challenges with a few highlights below:
• The center reports the following:
o Showers 1,585
o Laundry 844
o Lunches 11,777
• Issued 120 one-day bus tickets and 21 thirty-day bus tickets;
• Fulfilled 300 clothing requests outside of two events where clothing requests fulfillment could not be tracked;
• Reports 1,256 referrals for services such as peer support, case management, counseling, behavior health, dental, medical and coordinated entry to include shelter referrals;
• Five new community partners were reported as onboarded during the quarter, with six partners pending Memorandums of Understanding.
Manna Dream Center also reports on the following services: implementation of an intern training program, new key card policy, inter-building transfers, and outreach efforts targeting new lunch providers. Lastly, Manna Dream Center reports future goals of instituting a raised vegetable garden, mobile dental services, Department of Social Services representative, and an eye care specialist.
Budget Impact:
The City currently funds the activities at the Fayetteville Day Resource Center with $300,000 from the American Rescue Plan Act.
Options:
• No action required
Recommended Action:
No action required.
Attachments:
Fayetteville Cares FY2025 Second Quarter Report