House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1797 The BIG Impact
Requester:	Elaine Decker		Organization:		Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martin Co., Inc.
Project Title:	The BIG Impact		Date Submitted:		01/27/2000 5:26:19 PM
District Member:	Arthur Argenio		Service Area:		County
Counties Affected:	Martin
Recipient:	Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martin Co., Inc.		Contact:		Elaine Decker
	197 W. Monterey Rd.		Contact Phone:		(561) 283-8373
	Stuart, FL 34994
Project Description:
The project will provide professionally supervised case managed mentoring to at-risk Martin County children not already served by our program. These school age boys and girls typically live in poor/crime ridden neighborhoods, have been identified by school officials as being in danger of making poor life choices, have a family member who is a substance abuser, handicapped and/or involved in the correctional system, do poorly in school and come from a single parent home, live in foster homes or are being raised by someone other than their parents.
Services Provided/Benefit to State:
This is a prevention project with a focus of encouraging children to stay in school and live violence free. Priority services are intended to reduce juvenile crime or delinquency identified by the Legislature or the Dept. of Juvenile Justice through one to one mentoring. This is a program of supervised volunteer mentoring which takes place either in school or is community based.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Fifty new mentoring relationships will be established. No new delinquent behaviors in 85% of targeted children. 85% of mentored students will maintain or improve academic performance by the end of the grant program. 85% of mentored students will maintain good school attendance or make needed improvement to achieve good school attendance. 80% of targeted children will show improvement on their behavior evaluation.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:				$50,000
Total cost of the project:		$75,000

Request has been made to fund:			Operations
Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?					Yes
	Cash Amount:	$25,000		In-Kind Amount:	$92,000
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?					Yes
	Agency:	Juvenile Justice, Department Of
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?					Yes
Is there a documented need for this project?					Unknown
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?					Yes
	Hearing Body:	applied for through Public Safety Review Panel for Juv Just Project Proposals
	Meeting Date:	01/18/2000