Senate Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1076

Displaced Homemaker Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Delores K. Benjamin

Organization:

Resource Center for Women

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Displaced Homemaker Program

Date Submitted:

01/30/2000 5:30:50 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Jack Latvala

Service Area:

Regional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Pinellas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Resource Center for Women

Contact:

Delores K. Benjamin

 

1301 Seminole Blvd., Suite 150

Contact Phone:

(727) 586-1110

 

 

Largo 33710

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voluntary/free community-based program to assist displaced homemakers to achieve self-sufficiency, emotional strength and economic stability through counseling, education, employment and entrepreneurship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

Preventive program to stave off public dependency for women and families, contribute to tax base and community stability.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

350 directly served clients.  Several thousand instanced of information and referral.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$148,152

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$353,618

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

Yes

 

 

Cash Amount:

$190,466

In-Kind Amount:

$14,735

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

Yes

 

 

Fiscal Year:

1999-2000

Amount:

$144,527

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Yes

 

 

Amount:

$158,886

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purpose for future year funding:

 

Recurring Operations

 

 

Will this be an annual request?

 

 

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

 

Yes

 

 

Agency:

Education, Department Of, And Commissioner Of Education

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a documented need for this project?

 

Yes

 

 

Documentation:

Florida Data in 1998, National Study Data Women Work(Nat. Displaced Homemaker Network)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

Yes

 

 

Hearing Body:

Pinellas/Pasco County Legislative Delegations

 

Meeting Date:

11/09/1999