Reimbursement grant programproviding financial assistance to families living in the Northern Ohio Chapter service area with ALS or PLS to offset the increasing expenses experienced with such diseases.Grant requests must be related to the diagnosis of ALS or PLS, such as equipment, care and/or services.

Provides reimbursement for assistance with daily living activities to individuals with disabilities so they can work, seek employment, or attend school or job training. Will provide reimbursement of up to $8 per hour for up to 35 hours of assistance per week. Covers services that assist with personal needs such as eating, dressing, bathing, housework, shopping and meal preparation. Provides training to participants in recruiting, hiring and managing an assistant, as well as in employer tax responsibilities. Client must be able to handle paperwork.

Helps pay for the cost of care in an assistant living facility for adults. This program does not pay "room and board" expenses.

Provides support, education, and service linkage to help caregivers better understand their role. Helps caregivers understand when and how to access and utilize assistance (and the consequenxes of doing so). Goal is to provide stress reduction and the ability to understand and better care for their loved ones. Provides services such as reimbursement for limited and temporary respite care and information about services available to caregivers.

Offers two separate programs: the Program of General Caregiver Support Services (PGCSS) and the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) which provide support and benefits for veterans and their family caregivers. Services may include mental health services, referral to VA and community resources, and access to health care insurance to designated family caregivers of veterans. Provides education and training on how to provide home care. Respite Care (in-home, at a VA center, or at an adult day care facility) is provided to relieve the caregiver from the constant challenge of caring for a chronically ill or disabled veteran at home. Counseling is offered for the caregiver if needed. A monthly stipend and beneficiary travel is only available to those in the PCAFC program.

Grant is designed to prevent normally self-sufficient but low-income households from entering the cycle of poverty by helping them to afford short-term emergency expenses that would otherwise pose a tremendous hardship for the grant applicant. A Self-Sufficiency grant would help a low-income but otherwise self-sufficient household to afford: - The cost of a medical appointment, an auto repair, an insurance deductible, an unusually large utility bill, or virtually any other type of unexpected emergency expense when remitting payment for the unusual expense would place the grant applicant in a situation where he or she could no longer afford a critical regular bill, like his or her monthly rent; or - The cost of a regular monthly bill, like rent, when the applicant can document either that he or she has already received an paid for a short-term emergency expense like those described above, or that s/he has experienced a documentable, short-term loss of income (for example, the loss of income that resulted from an applicant having to take an unpaid week off from work due to illness.)

Through our Homecoming Heroes Grant, Modest Needs is able to offer qualified persons returning from active overseas duty the following two types of assistance: Help to afford a one-time emergency expense that would otherwise pose a tremendous hardship for the applicant or his/her household. For example, we might make a Homecoming Heroes grant to help a veteran who has experienced a temporary budgetary shortfall through no fault of his or her own to afford the cost of a medical appointment, an auto repair, an insurance deductible, an unusually large utility bill, or virtually any other type of unexpected expense, especially when it is clear that remitting payment for that expense would place the applicant's household in financial jeopardy; or Help to afford the cost of a regular monthly bill, like a rental or mortgage payment, which the applicant cannot pay due to any of the following circumstances: A delay in processing VA, GI Bill or other benefits to which the applicant is entitled; a delay in the receipt of an active duty paycheck due to Government audit; the receipt of an active duty paycheck that has been substantially reduced due to overpayment after Government audit; a temporary loss of income due to the veteran's participation in a vocational, rehabilitation, or mental health program; or in situations where a veteran has recently returned/is about to return to work, but is temporarily short on funds while he or she waits to receive that first paycheck from his or her new place of employment.

Offers a variety of services to caregivers. Services are designed to fill gaps in current community services. Included are reimbursement for limited and temporary respite, counseling, caregiver training to assist in the areas of health, nutrition, financial literacy, and in making decisions and solving problems related to care giving roles. Support groups, information about services available to unpaid caregivers, and individual training for caregivers in the home are also offered.