Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #665FY0001 Short-term Residential (SRT) Bed Expansion
Requester:		Duane Zimmerman			Organization:		Lakeside Alternatives, Inc.
Project Title:		Short-term Residential (SRT) Bed Expansion			Date Submitted:		02/05/2001 4:36:56 PM
Sponsors:		Allen Trovillion
Statewide Interest:		Support state goal: Protect the most vulnerable through treatment to the mental disabled.
Recipient:		Lakeside Alternatives, Inc.			Contact:		Stephen Hill
		434 West Kennedy Boulevard			Contact Phone:		(850) 656-3100
		Orlando 32810
Counties:		Orange
Service Area:		Private Organization
Project Description:
This project seeks to add eight beds to an existing SRT unit at Lakeside Alternatives. With additional beds, a more traditional model of short-term residential treatment consisting of average length of stays of 90 days rather than 10 days can be utilized. This longer stay can provide continued stabilization and transition to the community beyond crisis stabilization. This project will serve approzimately 35 people per year. The services provided are individual, group and chemo therapeutic intervention in a secure 30 bed residential setting as an altrnative to acute care public and state hospitalization. The unit operates 24 hours per day, seven days a week and provides a therapeutic environment designed to enhance individual coping skills, communication, problem solving, self-awareness, mental illness management, health, hygiene and medication management.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
It will produce measurable coutcomes consistent with the Department of Children & Families for mental health services, and deonstrate effectiveness in lowering state hospital utilization (90% of clients admitted to an SRT will not be admitted to a state hospital) and an increase in the number of days in the community, reduction in inappropriate and expensive incarceration: a lower utilization of more expensive deep-end medical services and uncompensated care in acute care facilities (an SRT is $300 less a day than an acute care hospital facility).
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:						$640,000
Identify item(s) in the Appropriations Bill to be reduced:
Specific Appropriation #:			367
Specific Appropriation Title:			Adult Community Mental Health Services
Amount to be reduced:			$640,000
Fund Source:			General Revenue
Total cost of the project:			$790,000
Request has been made to fund:				Operations
Type of funding match:		Private
					Total In-Kind Amount:		$200,000
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?							No
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?							No
Is there a documented need for this project?							Yes
	Documentation:		Orange County has only 30 of the recommended 60 beds for its population at the present time.
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:		01/29/2001