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Empowerment

Affordable Housing Program Staff

Promotion of Empowerment

• Up to 8 points (7 for Rental)
• Empowerment plan
• Referring residents to services will not

qualify for points

• Should be available to residents on an
• ngoing basis
• Clear and defined benefit to the entire

population

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Comprehensive Empowerment Plan

• Plan should outline:

– how empowerment offerings were chosen – the relevancy to the population served – experience of the sponsor and/or service provider

• Plan should address each 7 minimum

requirements for each point initiative sought after (next slide)

• Pick one initiative per category

– Do not submit multiple options for us to decide which would qualify best for the category

• The FHLBank reserves the right to

disqualify empowerment initiatives that appear to be structured or proposed for the purpose of “gaining points.”

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7 Minimum Requirements

1. Description of service to be offered and how it will be carried out 2. Goals of the offering including expected

• utcome/benefit to residents

3. Qualifications and experience of the sponsor and/or service provider 4. Description of how the services being provided are unique to the project and differ from what is already available to the general public

• 5. Frequency, location, and transportation
• ptions if not on-site. How services will be

funded and cost to the residents.

• 6. Detail how fulfillment of initiative will be

verified at completion monitoring

• 7. Plan signed by the sponsor and each

service provider

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Pages 20-21 of 2019 Implementation Plan

Empowerment Categories – 1 point each

• Employment
• Educational
• Daycare Services or After School Programs
• Homebuyer Pre-Purchase Counseling, OR Tenant Counseling

w/ Financial Literacy Training

• Sweat Equity (Homeownership only)
• Residents’ Council/Homeowners’ Association
• Other services that assist residents to move toward better

economic opportunities – Health, Nutrition, & Wellness – Life Quality

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Employment Initiatives

• Vocational/technical training
• Resume building/interview techniques
• Business etiquette
• Job placement programs

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Educational Initiatives

• GED/HSE preparation and testing
• ESL or other reading literacy programs
• Computer classes
• Entrepreneurship programs
• Scholarship programs

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Daycare Services or After School Programs

• Licensed childcare facilities
• After-school, weekend, evening and summer youth

programs

• Adult daycare services
• Age appropriate child enrichment programs such as:
• rganized learning structured play groups, scouting

programs, 4-H activities

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Homebuyer Pre-Purchase Counseling, OR Tenant Counseling with Financial Literacy Training

• Member-provided financial classes
• Credit repair/counseling
• Budgeting/money management
• Provision of matched savings programs
• FAFSA student loan education and training
• Assistance accessing benefits such as

social security, disability, etc.

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Sweat Equity (Homeownership Project Only)

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Residents’ Council/Homeowners’ Association

• Affects the operation of the project
• Homeowner's Association for

homeownership project

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Other – Health, Nutrition, & Wellness

• Partnership with local food access, on-

site food distribution, food pantry

• Healthy food education and training
• Community gardens
• Physical fitness/exercise programs
• On-site health clinic

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Other – Life Quality

• Adult and child mentoring programs
• Life coach/resident advocate
• Life skills training to include cooking, home

maintenance, housekeeping, parenting skills, vehicle maintenance, etc.

• Legal services
• Transportation sharing (exclusive of Uber,

Lyft or other similar services)

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Monitoring Evidence of Fulfillment

Acceptable documentation may include, but is not limited to, a combination of the following: 1. Resident surveys indicating awareness/utilization of empowerment initiatives offered 2. Calendar, newsletter displaying schedule

• f empowerment initiatives

3. Sign-in sheets/attendance logs 4. Meeting minutes 5. Course or class curriculum/agenda/outline 6. Materials handed out to empowerment initiative attendees 7. Photos or such evidence relevant to demonstrate fulfillment

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Reminders

Points will not be awarded if there is an

• verlap between empowerment and supportive

services

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Simply providing a flyer or printout of the service provider’s website is not enough

AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM STAFF

VP, AHP Portfolio Manager Trish Lewis – plewis@fhlbi.com AHP Production Manager Mike Recker – mrecker@fhlbi.com AHP Senior Compliance Analyst Devin Day – dday@fhlbi.com AHP Senior Compliance Analyst Erica Petty-Saunders – epsaunders@fhlbi.com AHP Compliance Analyst II Ashlen Nisley- anisley@fhlbi.com

Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis

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(800) 688.6697 (toll free) www.fhlbi.com