House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1682

Self Empowerment Learning Feeder Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Rev. Maurice Dawkins

Organization:

Opportunities Industrialization Centers of South Florida, Inc. (OIC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Self Empowerment Learning Feeder Program

Date Submitted:

01/29/2000 4:45:44 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Chris Smith

Service Area:

Regional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Broward

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

OIC of South Florida, Inc.

Contact:

Rev. Maurice Dawkins

 

c/o NAACP, 1409 Sistrunk Boulevard

Contact Phone:

(954) 917-3133

 

 

Ft. Lauderdale 33311

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A pre-employment training program to provide a solution to some of the shortcomings of the transition process for welfare recipients moving from welfare to work.

Opportunities Industrialization Centers of South Florida (OIC of South Florida) is a grass roots, not-for-profit community based organization whose mission is to provide prevocational training and job placement programs to economically disadvantaged individuals in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties.  The purpose of this program is to provide training and support services to minorities, females, and disadvantaged persons in order to increase their employment and retention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

Identify, recruit and provide necessary skills and attitude adjustment to program participants and thereby give them a better chance of becoming self reliant through wages, adult/vocational education, and other programs.

Increase economic growth through employment and retention and decrease dependency on social services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

Break cycle of dependency.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$500,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$1,500,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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?

 

Yes

 

 

Amount:

$1,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purpose for future year funding:

 

Recurring Operations

 

 

Will this be an annual request?

 

 

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:

WAGES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

No