FEMA AWARDS OVER $1.4 MILLION TO MASSACHUSETTS FOR COVID-19
SHELTERING COSTS
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20220627/fema-awards-over-1-4-million-massachusetts-covid-19-sheltering-costs%20-Broad-Institute]


Release Date: 
junio 27, 2022 

BOSTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending
more than $1.4 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to
reimburse the commonwealth for the costs associated with the
sheltering of homeless persons who contracted the coronavirus during
the COVID-19 pandemic.

The $1,421,062 Public Assistance grant will reimburse the
Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services for the
costs associated with the sheltering of COVID-positive populations
between April 2020 and July 2021.

The agency, in collaboration with the Department of Public Health and
Broad Institutes (MIT & Harvard), set up five isolation and recovery
sites to help COVID-positive homeless individuals safely isolate and
recover.

To run these isolation & recovery sites, the agency contracted with
Commonwealth Care Alliance, Behavior Health Network, Eliot Community
Human Services, Inc, and North Suffolk Mental Health Association,
which provided support staff and counselors to assist with the daily
management, behavioral health triage, training, and support for
non-congregate sheltering of COVID-positive homeless individuals.

“FEMA is pleased to be able to assist Massachusetts with these
costs,” said FEMA Region 1 Regional Administrator Lori Ehrlich.
“Providing resources for our partners on the front lines of the
pandemic fight is critical to their success, and our success as a
nation.”

FEMA’s Public Assistance program is an essential source of funding
for states and communities recovering from a federally declared
disaster or emergency.

So far, FEMA has provided more than $1 billion in Public Assistance
grants to Massachusetts to reimburse the commonwealth for
pandemic-related expenses.