House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1448

Central Florida Family Emergency Treatment Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Duane Zimmerman

Organization:

Lakeside Alternatives, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Central Florida Family Emergency Treatment Center

Date Submitted:

01/25/2000 6:14:09 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Bill Sublette

Service Area:

Regional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Orange, Osceola, Seminole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Lakeside Alternatives, Inc.

Contact:

Steve Hill

 

434 West Kennedy Boulevard

Contact Phone:

(850) 656-3100

 

 

Orlando 32810

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lakeside Alternatives, Inc. a comprehensive non-profit mental health center in Orange County, serves approximately 11,000 children and adults with severe and persistent mental disabilities who have little or no resources to pay for their mental health care.  This proposal is intended to demonstrate the need and obtain support for an appropriation for Lakeside for the Family Emergency Treatment Center (FETC), which will be a 24 hour, seven day a week emergency walk-in clinic for behavioral healthcare services.  The Center will be targeted to the fast growing, Hispanic population in East Orange, Southern Seminole and Northern Osceola counties.  These communities are currently underserved due to their recent emergence as centers of Hispanic population.

 

The mission of the Family Emergency Treatment Center will be to provide children and adults immediate behavioral healthcare treatment and/or referral in their home community.  It is the goal of the FETC that through timely intervention and assessment, the proper level of care be provided early, thereby preventing more costly care.  This costly care is exhibited through unnecessarily high admissios and/or processing into local hospital emergency rooms, county jails, crisis stabilization units and detoxification centers.

 

The staffing of the FETC will include psychiatrists, social workers, mental health and substance abuse counselors, registered nurses, and care managers.  The county will provide the facility for the FETC.  A total of twenty-one (21) staff will be employed at the Center.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

The FETC is an innovative concept which has been implemented with State support in Manatee and Pinellas counties.  The Center will be designed to mirror the emergency walk-in clinics in the physical healthcare arena.  Similar to these physical health care centers, the FETC will provide a range of services that will meet the immediate needs of the consumer.  Upon entry in the FETC, the client will be met by trained intake personnel who will connect the client with clinical staff who will provide assessment/screening to determine the level of care needed.  If the intervention/treatment is not provided on site or is not appropriate to the FETC mission, the client will be connected to community-based services which will administer the needed services.

 

The scope of services to be offered through the FETC for any individual with mental health and/or substance abuse needs will be broken out into two major categories.  The first focuses on clinical services and the second on community support.  Clinical services include assessment, emergency counseling/brief therapy, medication clinic, and referral.  Community support services include case management, observation/drop-in and family support.

 

The benefits of an FETC to the State have been demonstrated by the FETC's operated in Manatee and Pinellas counties.  These Centers have demonstrated an overwhelming acceptance of their home communities and substantial cost savings by preventing the provision of costly deep end service (correction facilities, hospital emergency rooms, CSU's, etc.).  This is especially important to the State in fast growing metropolitan areas such as Central Florida.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

The goal of Lakeside Alternatives, Inc. is to provide the level of behavioral services needed by individuals in the least restrictive setting which is appropriate for the client's well being.  There is currently a shortage of psychiatric hospital/CSU bed availability in Central Florida.  This has resulted in maximum capacity of CSU/SRT beds being exceeded on a regular basis.  Also, the capacity of the Orange County Correctional Facility has exceeded its limit with three hundred and fifty (350) of an approximate four thousand (4,000) inmates exhibiting symptoms of serious mental illness, and an even greater number needing substance abuse treatment.  The population increases in Central Florida, especially the Hispanic population boom, only exacerbate the current unmet needs in this region.

 

The outcomes anticipated by implementation of a Central Florida FETC include the following:

1. Reduce time law enforcement currently spends in transportating and processing Baker Act clients.

2. Service Hispanic population in their home communities in less restrictive settings.

3. Reduce unnecessary commitments in corrections facilities by 730 days in first year of operation.

4. Reduce admission to psychiatric hospitals/CSU's by 200 individuals in the first year of operations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$991,629

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$1,191,629

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

Yes

 

 

Cash Amount:

$100,000

In-Kind Amount:

$100,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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:

Current lack of services resulting in unnecessary, costly hospital/correctional facility placements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

No