Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #2633FY0001

Faith Initiative for Families at Risk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Rick Sawyer

Organization:

Family & Children Faith Coalition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Faith Initiative for Families at Risk

Date Submitted:

2/15/01 10:58:35 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsors:

Daryl Jones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Statewide Interest:

providing cost-effective social services to Florida at-risk families and children

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Family & Children Faith Coalition

Contact:

Rick Sawyer

 

14748 SW 56 Street

Contact Phone:

(305) 228-3986

 

 

Miami 33185

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties:

Dade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service Area:

Private Organization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FCFC has mobilized 100 faith based social service providers and linked together 300 churches and 750 individuals in order to help address the pressing social problems in Dade County. These projects will address foster care, drug abuse and violence prevention, after school programs, education, family stabilization, child care, increases employment for former welfare recipients and the hard to employ, teen pregnancy, and domestic violence issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

Establish accredited child care centers in church facilities; develop teen pregnancy prevention programs; implement domestic violence prevention programs; and develop new faith based drug-abuse and violence prevention programs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$300,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$300,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type of funding match:

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Yes

 

 

Amount:

$300,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

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:

FL Dept. of Children & Families, S. FL Training & Employment Commission

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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