Amendment #826 to H4000

Holistic Approach to Reducing Poverty (HARP)

Representatives Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, Barrett of North Adams, Mark of Peru and Pignatelli of Lenox moves to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after item 7002-1502 the following item: "[7002-XXXX] For the Holistic Approach to Reducing Poverty (HARP) partnership to be administered by the Berkshire Community Action Council (BCAC) to will create a no wrong door approach to reducing poverty by utilizing a shared client management system by providing for the purchase of sophisticated case management software to create a centralized data warehouse for human service agencies in the Berkshires that pulls information on all services that individuals and families are receiving across multiple agencies. BCAC shall be solely responsible for the administration of this program and provided  further, that not later than  January 7, 2022, BCAC  shall file a report with the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, the department of housing and community development and the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing: (a) receipts of client management system software; (b) agencies that have combined to join the HARP Partnership and (c) projected customers served through the partnership……..$300,000

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #826 to H4000

Holistic Approach to Reducing Poverty (HARP)