House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1013

Leon ARC Center for Commuinty Inclusion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Leon ARC Leon ARC

Organization:

Leon ARC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Leon ARC Center for Commuinty Inclusion

Date Submitted:

01/26/2000 3:12:44 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Alfred Lawson

Service Area:

Regional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Leon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Leon ARC, Inc.

Contact:

Lewis Persons

 

1589 Metropolitian Boulevard

Contact Phone:

(850) 422-0355

 

 

Tallahassee 32308

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To construct and operate a center for Community inclusion which will assist clients of the Dept. of Children and Family Services develomental services to become active participating members in their local communities in North Florida.  The project will serve and support DS clients who were institutionalized, in crisis or on waiting lists for services in five counties.  The center will be nuilt in Leon county but will operate satellite facilities in Calhoun, Liberty, Taylor, Franklin and Wakulla counties.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

The Center for community Inclusion will provide adult day training and employment opportunities for indidviduals with developmental disabilities.  The center will serve as a central location for clients, families and various support groups to conduct the daily business of providing service and support to individuals with disabilities.  The center wil provide training, employment and respite based on the choices and institutionlization of some DS clients and thereby save the State of Florida and taxpayers from costly institutional care and future litigation as evidenced in the past.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

DS client wil be provided a community based services to assist them in becoming participating/contributing members of their communities.  The Center for Community Inclusion will serve productive citizens in their home communities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$450,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$765,108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

Yes

 

 

 

 

In-Kind Amount:

$229,308

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

 

No

 

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a documented need for this project?

 

Yes

 

 

Documentation:

DCFS wait list/Florida status tracking survey and personal outcome measures of clients

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

Yes

 

 

Hearing Body:

Wakulla County Legislative Hearing

 

Meeting Date:

11/18/1999