Director’s Message

Community Development Block Grants

www.dced.state.ut.us/cdbg

Amother of five tells how she and her children stayed in the Kaysville shelter. She learned how to care for her children while her husband received counseling. Her husband now has a well paying job, and she knows how to deal with her children in a positive way that builds self-confidence and self-reliance.

Highlights

The quality of life for Utah citizens improved in fiscal year 2000 thanks to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. The program continues to benefit residents of cities and counties throughout the state with another successful year.

An example of the difference CDBG funding makes is demonstrated by the Family Connection Center in Davis County which received $200,000 of state CDBG funding this year. The center offers a crisis nursery, classes, emergency food assistance and other services to aid low-income families.

In Utah the program is unique in that projects are prioritized at the local level for funding by local officials with input from local citizens. For fiscal year 2000, the state CDBG program received about $7.4 million from the federal government which was distributed to the local Associations of Governments (AOG’s) as follows:

A Community Development Block Grant is presented to the Family Connection Center in Davis County