Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1288FY0001 Senior Community Outreach Utilizing Team Services (SCOUTS)
Requester:		Susan Cook			Organization:		Senior Friendship Centers/Jewish Family & Children's Services
Project Title:		Senior Community Outreach Utilizing Team Services (SCOUTS)			Date Submitted:		2/14/01 8:45:30 AM
Sponsors:		Lisa Carlton
Statewide Interest:		A possible pilot program for keeping seniors at home with help, rather than institutionalizing them.
Recipient:		Senior Friendship Center			Contact:		Susan Cook
		1888 Brother Geenan Way			Contact Phone:		(941) 955-2122
		Sarasota 34236
Counties:		Sarasota
Service Area:		Private Organization
Project Description:
Senior Friendship Centers, Inc., and Jewish Family and Children's Services are working together to address the needs of isolated, at risk older adults. In a program called SCOUTS vulnerable seniors are identified and given the assistance to meet their immediate needs. Some of the increasingly serious and interrelated problems include: elders living in unfit environments that include no food, unsanitary conditions, unmet physical and emotional needs; individuals in their eighties and nineties who are blind, wheelchair bound, physically disabled, confused, disoriented, have no running water, no electricity and no resources available to correct these indignities ; unmet medical needs due to lack of financial resources; social isolation leading to depression; disheveled appearance, bedridden incontinence; fear and paranoia of institutionalization. The SCOUT program addresses these needs and engages and educates the public in identifying isolated and vulnerable frail elders; SCOUT provides multi-disciplined services and mobilizes community resources to address immediate needs; works with individuals, families, community and faith-based organizations to develop longer term solutions; helps frail elders age in place with dignity while preventing costly premature institutionalization.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
With additional funds another two teams of (2) persons each team can be put in place in mid and north Sarasota County.This would allow 100 consumers per team to be seen; 90 new assessments per team; 25 training classes per team; 300 community members trained to identify these vulnerable adults; 20 consumers per team will receive mental health assistance.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:						$170,000
Total cost of the project:			$310,000
Request has been made to fund:				Operations
Type of funding match:		Local
	Total Cash Amount:		$100,000		Total In-Kind Amount:		$40,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?							No
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?							Yes
	Amount:		$170,000
	Purpose for future year funding:					Recurring Operations
	Will this be an annual request?						Yes
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?							No
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?							No
Is there a documented need for this project?							Yes
	Documentation:		In the first year, one team serviced 105 elderly; did 68 training classes with 1,540 participants
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?							Yes
	Hearing Body:		Sarasota County Legislative Delegation
	Meeting Date:		1/16/01