| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #694 | |||||||||
| Clay Kid's NET, Inc. | |||||||||
| Requester: | Dr. Gail Atchison | Organization: | Clay County Behavioral Health Center | ||||||
| Project Title: | Clay Kid's NET, Inc. | Date Submitted | 1/15/2003 9:11:41 AM | ||||||
| Sponsors: | Bean, Hogan, Wiles | ||||||||
| Statewide Interest: | |||||||||
| The care of children who would be placed in foster care and thus involved in Community Based Care Programs. | |||||||||
| Recipient: | Clay Behavioral Health Center | Contact: | Stephen Hill | ||||||
| 3292 County Road 220 | Contact Phone: | (850) 668-3900 | |||||||
| Middleburg 32068 | |||||||||
| Counties: | Clay | ||||||||
| Gov't Entity: | Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): | Yes | |||||||
| Project Description: | |||||||||
| This project would involve the care of 16-20 foster care children each month. This program would provide emergency shelter for 30 days and would collaborate with other agencies in the area, especially churches. It is a 24/7 facility which provides for all medical assessments, dental assessments, comprehensive psychological evaluations and school recommendations when appropriate. Instead of children going directly into a foster home or facility they would come to the assessment center and be evaluated first. The would accomplish the law for children to be medically evaluated with 72 hours and would also allow for appropriate placement of the child according to needs. Each child would be given a case manager to interface with family support workers from DCF or lead agency involved in privitization. This program would be available for children in Clay County as well as other Counties in District 4 when space is permitted. This program would offer counseling, parenting groups, mental health services, substance abuse services and family therapy with the goal of unification of families. Having an Assessment Center would eliminate the use of a less than appropriate holding facility currently being used. (The Davis Street office complex, where children currently are kept until placement, has no showers, kitchen facilities or places to sleep except the floor). There would also be Respite Services for kids already in foster care. There are multiple agencies who are willing to be involved in this project, such as: Council on Aging for mentoring purposes, Spiritual Leaders, Foster Care Alliance, and Clay County Health Department. Clay County Government is willing to put in a match of $350,000 the first year and $250,000.00 each year for 4 years. Training of staff and community awareness is also a major point of this project. | |||||||||
| Is this a water project as described in Chapter 2002-291, Laws of Florida? | No | ||||||||
| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: | |||||||||
| A. An elimination of children on Davis Street, waiting to be placed in care B. Medical Assessments for all children within 72 hours. C. Appropriate placement within the educational system. D. Successful unification of families or permanency for children. E. Better tracking of children in care. F. Better collaboration with other agencies around the care of children in foster care. | |||||||||
| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: | $975,000 | ||||||||
| Identify item(s) in the FY 2003-04 Appropriations Bill to be reduced: | |||||||||
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| Amount to be reduced: | $ | ||||||||
| Total cost of the project: | $1,330,000 | ||||||||
| Request has been made to fund: | Operations | ||||||||
| What type of match exists for this project? | Local, Private | ||||||||
| Cash Amount | $5,000 | In-kind Amount | $350,000 | ||||||
| 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: | Need Assessment figures was done from Dept. of Children & Families & other agencies. | ||||||||
| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? | Yes | ||||||||
| Hearing Body: | Clay County Legislative Delegation | ||||||||
| Hearing Meeting Date: | 12/02/2002 | ||||||||