House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #2427

Prevention and Family Preservation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

G. Trudie Poole

Organization:

Heritage for Black Children, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Prevention and Family Preservation

Date Submitted:

01/31/2000 11:03:47 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Alzo Reddick

Service Area:

Regional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Brevard, Orange, Osceola, Seminole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Heritage for Black Children, Inc.

Contact:

G. Trudie Poole

 

4823 Sliver Star Road, Suite 110

Contact Phone:

(407) 292-7722

 

 

Orlando 32808

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Prevention and Family Preservation project will heighten awareness, promote family ownership to problem solving, offer a non-threatening connection, pre- and post-stabilization family support systems, and linking referral resources. Education and information classes are available to provide self-help tools and techniquues, as well as an accessible resource library.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

Hertiage is providing hands-on guidance and direction through monthly support group meetings, scheduled family support-parenting classes, neighborhood networks, and other collaborative partnerships. The state would benefit from simply implementing a similar model, that has measured outcomes of a peer-support linkage at the community base that promotes ownership to problem solving, and resolutions to the recurring and raising trends of child abuse and domestic violence issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

Out of the 200 families who participate in the Heritage Prevention and Family Preservation program: to encompass all program components, a minimum 75% will complete the program. In order to successfully complete the program participants may miss no more than one session of a class series.

1. a decrease in the number of at-risk families in District VII;

2. a decrease in the number of adoption disruptions;

3. an increase on the number of adoptive-foster placements;

4. an increase in the number of families seeking preventive services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$478,386

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$478,386

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations and Construction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Yes

 

 

Amount:

$100,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purpose for future year funding:

 

Recurring Operations and Non-recurring Construction

 

 

Will this be an annual request?

 

 

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:

Documented by state and local demographics as highest at risk areas for children in care.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Yes

 

 

Hearing Body:

Orange County Legislative Delegation

 

Meeting Date:

12/07/1998