FOUNTAIN VALLEY : 11 Agencies Win $53,550 in Grants

The City Council has given $53,550 in federal Community Development Block Grant money to 11 local public service agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Lauren A. Sacco, the city’s Community Development Block Grant coordinator, said 13 agencies applied for the funds, but two did not meet eligibility requirements. Agencies must serve residents of the city and at least 51% of their clientele must be low-income.

Hotline of Southern California requested $3,000, but Sacco said the crisis intervention agency was unable to provide the client-income statistics required by federal guidelines to qualify for the funds.

Sacco also said the Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Center asked for $4,000, but the agency only served two city residents in 1991-92. It did not serve any city residents in 1992-93, Sacco said.

Local agencies that will receive grant money under the council’s action Tuesday are:

* The Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley, $5,421.

* Community Services Program, a juvenile intervention program, $6,796.

* Elwyn Inc., a company that employs and places mentally disabled adults in jobs, $3,123.

* Feedback Foundation, which provides prepared meals to homebound seniors, $2,600.

* Fountain Valley School District’s Extended School Program, a day-care program at schools, $7,500.

* Huntington Beach Community Clinic, which provides health care to low-income or uninsured people, $6,610.

* Orange County Youth & Family Services, which provides shelter and counseling for runaway youths, $2,500.

* Southern California Alcohol & Drug Programs, which provides drug rehabilitation programs, $5,000.

* South Coast Institute for Applied Gerontology, provides day care for seniors with disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, $5,000.

* YWCA of South Orange County, which provides shelter and job counseling for homeless women, $4,000.

* Women’s Transitional Living Center, which provides shelter for battered women and their children, $5,000.