House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1673

New Horizons Family Intervention & Support Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Evalina Bestman, Ph.D.

Organization:

New Horizons CMHC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

New Horizons Family Intervention & Support Program

Date Submitted:

01/31/2000 8:40:48 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Frederica Wilson

Service Area:

Regional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Dade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

New Horizons CMHC, Inc.

Contact:

Evalina Bestman, Ph.D.

 

1313 NW 36th Street, Suite 400

Contact Phone:

(305) 635-0366

 

 

Miami 33142

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Develop family preservation and support program for parents involved in the criminal justice system and their children.  Specific target population are parents being released from correction facilities and reuniting with their children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

Funds which are currently spent to maintain children in foster care, prevent school drop out and juvenile delinquency will not have to be spent.  Adult prison recidivism decreased.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

1) to prevent children and adolescents of parents involved in the Criminal Justice System from becoming involved in the Criminal Justice System; 2) to provide parents involved with criminal justice system with skills to effectively assume parenting responsibilities for their children who are in State custody or funded by the State; 3) provide family intervention services which would include the following: (a) provide counseling to children, adolescent and their caretakers; (b) provide parenting education to inmates and/or individuals court ordered into diversionary programs; (c) facilitate a plan of reintegration into the family on parenting role for inmates being discharged; (d) linking children and family members including caretakers with community resources to gain and maintain mastery of basic academic skills and to facilitate their life away from crime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$500,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$500,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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:

Ted Koppel/ Nightline did a week of features on women in prison & their need f/ reunions w/children

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Yes

 

 

Hearing Body:

Miami-Dade Legislative Delegation

 

Meeting Date:

01/12/1999