Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #930FY0001 New Horizons Family Intervention & Support Program
Requester:		Evalina W. Bestman, Ph.D.			Organization:		New Horizons CMHC
Project Title:		New Horizons Family Intervention & Support Program			Date Submitted:		2/8/01 5:09:36 PM
Sponsors:		Frederica Wilson
Statewide Interest:		Develop family preservation and support program for parents involved in the criminal justice system.
Recipient:		New Horizons CMHC, Inc.			Contact:		Evalina W. Bestman, Ph.D.
		1313 NW 36th Street, Suite 400			Contact Phone:		(305) 635-0366
		Miami, FL 33142
Counties:		Dade
Service Area:		Government Entity
Project Description:
Develop family preservation and support program for parents involved in the criminal justice system and their children. Specific target population are parents being released from correction facilities and reuniting with their children. Funds will not have to be spent to maintain children in foster care, prevent school drop out and juvenile delinquency. Adult prison recidivism decreased. Parents upon discharge from the jails or prisons will receive family intervention services.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Prevent children and adolescents of parents involved in Criminal Justice System from becoming involved in the Criminal Justice System; prevent parents involved with criminal justice system with skills to effectively assume parenting responsibilities for their children who are in State Custody or funded by the state; provide family intervention services which would include counseling to children, adolescent and their caretakers, provide parenting education to inmates and/or individuals court ordered into diversionary programs, facilitate a plan of reintegration into the family on parenting role for inmates being discharged, linking children and family members including caretakers with community resources to gain and maintain mastery of basic academic skills and to facilitate their life away from crime.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:						$550,000
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:			$550,000
Fund Source:			Trust Fund
Total cost of the project:			$550,000
Request has been made to fund:				Operations
Type of funding match:		Local
					Total In-Kind Amount:		$50,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?							Yes
	Fiscal Year:		2000-2001		Amount:		$100,000
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?							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:		Ted Koppel, Nightline a week of features, DOC moved women prisoners to facilitate visitations of chi
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 Legislative Delegation
	Meeting Date:		1/17/01