Community Project Funding
Congresswoman Cori Bush has submitted 15 community project funding requests for Missouri’s First District.
Under guidelines issued by the House Appropriations Committee, each Representative may request funding for up to 15 projects in their community for Fiscal Year 2023 – although only a handful may actually be funded. Projects are restricted to a limited number of federal funding streams, and only state and local governments and eligible non-profit entities are permitted to receive funding. Additional information on the reforms governing Community Project Funding is available here
In compliance with House Rules and Committee requirements, Congresswoman Cori Bush has certified that she and her immediate family have no financial interest in any of the projects she has requested.
To view Congresswoman Bush’s FY 2022 projects, please click here.
LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION
Power4STL
Amount of Request: $3,000,000.00
Intended Recipient: Power4STL
5874 Delmar Blvd,
St. Louis, MO 63112
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: Power4STL’s the T: Harm Reduction Center will provide healing resources to communities previously subjected to unprecedented loss of life due to opioid overdose and violence, with death disproportionately impacting the lives of the Black community. This includes a holistic approach to harm reduction through direct service, utilizing a team of community health workers and advocates, trauma responsive clinicians, and numerous mobile and in person services and resources. This new comprehensive harm reduction center will allow the co-location of clinical, mental health, social, spiritual, and healing care as well as crisis support. This community of health will serve to bridge the fatal gaps in healthcare and healing for those at risk for violence and overdose. St. Louis sits at the frontier of the modern civil rights movement and The T sits within that vast landscape at the frontier of anti-racist medicine and community healing. What has been a source of great pain can become the center of great healing. We believe great things can occur when we heal. The T is committed to promote that healing in every way possible for St. Louis, for the people, and for the culture.
In-School Mental Health/Anti-Violence Programming, Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri
Amount of Request: $70,000.00
Intended Recipient: Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri
2300 Ball Dr,
St. Louis, MO 63146
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The In-School Mental Health & Anti-Violence Programming from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri will serve elementary students (all genders) in grades K-5, Be a Friend First that serves girls in grades 6th-8th grade, and Transform Ur Future for high school students and each addresses critical issues that students face at each stage of their social and emotional development and helps them navigate them calmly and constructively.
St. Louis Public Schools
Amount of Request: $252,713.00
Intended Recipient: Saint Louis Public Schools
801 N. 11th St,
St. Louis, MO 63101
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The St. Louis Public Schools project will offer academic and career-oriented courses to transition from high school to a career. SLPS offers 27 distinct Career and Technical Education tracks, which students enroll in as juniors and seniors, but begin to be exposed to as early as middle school. The program relies on deep partnerships with industry, unions, and community college partners to ensure that students have a path to a career. This project makes new opportunities available to students in grants 6-12 as they explore construction trades in age-appropriate ways.
Seed St. Louis
Amount of Request: $380,000.00
Intended Recipient: Seed St. Louis
5501 Delmar Blvd. Suite B270
St. Louis, MO 63112
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: Seed St. Louis will offer support to, expand, and build school gardens and orchards, while also building a student & teacher destination children’s garden for learning and exploration.
Behavioral Health Urgent Care Long Acting Injectable Clinic, SSM Health - St. Mary’s Hospital
Amount of Request: $2,500,000.00
Intended Recipient: SSM Health - St. Mary’s Hospital - St. Louis
6420 Clayton Road
St. Louis, MO 63117
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital St. Louis’s Behavioral Health Urgent Care Long Acting Injectable Clinic will provide alternative treatment options for adults and adolescents who have trouble consistently taking their daily/regular antipsychotic or addiction medications. The clinic will provide patient’s medicine through a single injection that steadily releases medication over several weeks. It will provide this resource within MO-1, preventing patients from having to travel greater distances to existing facilities and helping address inequities and gaps in care. Schizophrenia and addiction are examples of conditions treated, and medications administered include antipsychotics and medications to treat opioid and alcohol dependence. Through the treatment, patients have regular connection with on-site social workers, enabling them to address social determinants and to establish peer and family connections amongst patients.
UAW Labor Employment and Training Corporation
Amount of Request: $1,549,973.00
Intended Recipient: UAW Labor Employment and Training Corporation
4235 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The UAW Labor Employment and Training Corporation will create a premier Automotive Repair Training center in the St. Louis Metropolitan area to provide basic and advanced automotive technology training to unemployed, underemployed, and incumbent workers thru UAW Labor Employment and Training Corporation (LETC) leading to middle & high skilled employment utilizing Apprenticeship models and career pathways in the changing automotive technology industry. An estimated direct annual economic impact is $4.20 million to the region.
TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
LIFE Housing Project, Child and Family Empowerment Center
Amount of Request: $1,812,891.00
Intended Recipient: Child and Family Empowerment Center
4145 Kennerly Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63113
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The LIFE Housing Project at the Child and Family Empowerment Center will fund the LIFE (Life Improvement/Family Empowerment) Housing Project. The LIFE Housing Project addresses the housing disparities in North St Louis City and North St. Louis County, MO. The LIFE Housing project serves people ages 18 and older who have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder and focuses on people with a substance use disorder. CAFE receives referrals from area SUD treatment Centers, Behavioral Health Providers and Recovery Support Organizations. The project will house approximately 75 men, women, and their children in North St. Louis City.
Covenant House Missouri
Amount of Request: $2,423,000.00
Intended Recipient: Covenant House Missouri
2727 North Kingshighway Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63113
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The Covenant House Missouri project will be a hub for holistic economic development programs to help marginalized youth obtain education, establish the hard and soft skills needed in the workplace, gain financial education and empowerment, connect to mentors, and promote social capital in the spirit of achieving a lifetime of independence and success. CHMO is proposing the renovation and revitalization of 40,000 sq. feet of property at 5017 Maffitt Ave in the Kingsway West Neighborhood in North St. Louis that has not been in use for over 20 years. Transforming this space will further promote and expand the workforce development programs and partnerships, which CHMO already offers to youth who are at-risk of or experiencing homelessness, which will impact youth and the community for generations to come.
Boys and Girls Clubs Capital Projects
Amount of Request: $2,159,400.00
Intended Recipient: Boys and Girls Club of Greater St. Louis
2901 N. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63107
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The Boys and Girls Clubs Capital Projects will renovate and do capital improvements needed in order to safely house and expand after- school, weekend and summer programs for youth ages 5-18.
LifeHouse Phase 1, Page Revitalization Initiative
Amount of Request: $4,000,000.00
Intended Recipient: Better Family Life
5415 Page Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63044
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The LifeHouse Phase 1 of the Page Revitalization Initiative at Better Family Life will not only revitalize North City, but educate and support the residents in securing a beautiful safe home and equip them with the knowledge and financial stability to remain in their home. This project encompasses three specific, but vital areas that will support local community growth and overall health: 1) Development of 48 units of residential living opportunities (single family and/or condominiums) for moderate and lower income families; 2) Creation of a community based planning document that will establish priorities for the area, and; 3) Community capacity building through resident education and engagement; Each of the three areas is a vital strategy for a cohesive, self-reliant and resilient community.
A Red Circle
Amount of Request: $1,498,853.00
Intended Recipient: A Red Circle
9308 Lewis and Clark Blvd. St. Louis MO
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The A Red Circle project will encompass site acquisition and renovations to provide services to meet immediate and long-term needs of North County residents who have borne a historic and persistent lack of access to good education and jobs, safety, healthy food access and other opportunities necessary to survive and thrive. This project restores a blighted property that has been vacant for over 10 years, provides essential revenues to a primarily Black community that has faced disinvestment for decades, and addresses priority concerns of food security to promote healthy outcomes for residents. It also provides much needed space for community service programming like our co-located STL Mutual Aid services, affordable open space for homegrown small businesses, and will provide a needed cold storage and distribution site for a growing Good Food Movement with local urban Black farmers in North County. The grocery store will feature locally sourced produce and other high-demand items, a cold storage and distribution facility for the growing network of black urban farmers in North County, a commissary kitchen, and a community education space for teaching about nutrition and healthy foods.
Wi-Fi for Housing Authority Residents
Amount of Request: $990,000.00
Intended Recipient: St. Louis Housing Authority
3250 Page Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63106
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The Wi-Fi for Housing Authority Residents project will connect 600 households in six St. Louis Housing Authority developments to high-speed internet by installing a private LTE network and providing residents with devices (i.e. chromebooks, tablets), technical support and elementary digital literacy services.
Urban League Plaza
Amount of Request: $1,678,500.00
Intended Recipient: Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis
1314 Aubert Ave.,
St. Louis, MO 63113
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The Urban League Plaza invests in the restoration of the property's exterior and revitalization of its interior in preparation to house African-American owned small business enterprises. The plaza is designed to provide space that is quality, affordable, and sustainable. Funding will be used for renovations and capital improvements.
Dunbar Gardens, City of Kinloch
Amount of Request: $1,498,853.00
Intended Recipient: City of Kinloch
5825 Martin Luther King Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63140
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The Dunbar Gardens project in the City of Kinloch will help facilitate the renovation of an apartment complex aimed at providing affordable housing for senior citizens and the underserved.
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, and SCIENCE
911 Dispatch System, City of St. Louis
Amount of Request: $684,386.00
Intended Recipient: City of St. Louis
1200 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103
Disclosure Letter: here
Project Explanation: The 911 Dispatch System project for the City of St. Louis will support a technology upgrade to the CAD system to modernize and centralize the City's emergency response system in line with national best practices.