House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1891 Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center
Requester:	Wansley Walers		Organization:		Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center
Project Title:	Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center		Date Submitted:		01/27/2000 4:09:29 PM
District Member:	Beryl Roberts		Service Area:		County
Counties Affected:	Dade
Recipient:	Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center		Contact:		Wansley Walters, Director
	275 NW 2nd Street		Contact Phone:		(305) 755-6262
	Miami 33128
Project Description:
The Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center is a centralized processing, referral, and evaaluation center for all juveniles arrested in Miami-Dade County. The facility, which opened in late October, 1997, has served over 37,000 arrested juveniles, and allows representatives from law enforcement and social services to work together under one roof to provide a complete range of services at the initial stages of the juvenile's involvement with the Juvenile Justice System.
Services Provided/Benefit to State:
Major innovations include the positive identification and centralized booking of a complete juvenile arrest population, an integrated information system, the provision of a juvenile justice screening and a substance abuse/mental health assessment of arrested juveniles when intervention is most effective.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Reduce the average time of 4 to 6 hours previously spent by a police officer with a juvenile arrest to less than one hour, resulting in an estimated additional 100,000 hours of police time being returned to the streets of our community each year. Coordination of services combined with early intervention allows for more appropriate referrals and effective use of limited resources.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:				$810,000
Total cost of the project:		$7,100,000

Request has been made to fund:			Operations
Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?						Yes
	Cash Amount:	$1,770,000		In-Kind Amount:		$2,890,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?						Yes
	Fiscal Year:	1999-2000		Amount:		$732,240
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?						Yes
	Amount:	$810,000
	Purpose for future year funding:				Recurring Operations
	Will this be an annual request?					Yes
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?						Yes
	Documentation:	Volume of arrested juveniles in Miami-Dade County, in 1999 15, 953 arrested juveniles.
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 County Legislative Delegation
	Meeting Date:	12/01/1999