Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #351FY0001 Family Emergency Treatment Center
Requester:		Janet Eustis			Organization:		Ruth Cooper Center for Behavioral Health Care
Project Title:		Family Emergency Treatment Center			Date Submitted:		2/16/01 11:24:07 AM
Sponsors:		Burt Saunders
Statewide Interest:		Providing 24-hour walk-in crisis support for individuals with Mental health and or substance abuse.
Recipient:		Ruth Cooper Center for Behavioral Health Care			Contact:		Janet Eustis
		2789 Ortiz Avenue			Contact Phone:		(941) 275-3222 365
		Fort Myers 33905
Counties:		Lee
Service Area:		Private Organization
Project Description:
The Family Emergency Treatment Center is envisioned as a 24-hour walk-in crisis support program for individuals and families in Lee County with mental health and substance abuse problems. It will be a cooperative program of the Ruth Cooper Center for Behavioral Health Care and Southwest Florida Addiction Services, staffed by medical persoonel, licensed clinicians, substance abuse specialists and case managers. The goal is to work with individuals and families in crisis, assessing their needs and linking them with appropriate services. Through early intervention and short-term treatment, it is anticipated that we will divert clients from costly inpatient psychiatric services, hospital emergency rooms and jails. The service will be fully intergrated with "Baker Act" and "Marchman Act" (involuntary) services.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Throughout the past year, Lee COunty has experienced a loss in both otupatient and acute inpatient psychiatric services because of the reduction in services provided by Ruth Cooper Center and the closure of Charter Glade Hospital. This combination has put tremendous pressure on the acute end of the system, which is already underfunded. The goal of the Family Emergency Treatment Center is, throufh early intervention, to link people with appropriate services, divert them fromthe need for more acute care and ensure that only the neediest individuals use our most expensive services (crisis stabilization unit). This early intervention will divert people from inappropriate resources such as hosptial emergency rooms and jails. In Manatee County, where this model was piloted, there was a saving the first year of $697,000 in pubicly funded inpatient psychiatric services alone. We will expect this as a minimum in Lee County in the first year of operation.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:						$1,000,000
Total cost of the project:			$1,000,000
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?							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:		The Family Emergency Treatment Center in Manatee has an annual report, produced by Englehardt and As
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?							No