Senate Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1089 Center for Childhood Safety and the Prevention of Childhood Violence
Requester:	Jim Magill		Organization:		Panhandle Area Education Consortium
Project Title:	Center for Childhood Safety and the Prevention of Childhood Violence		Date Submitted:		01/29/2000 4:45:11 PM
District Member:	Charles Clary		Service Area:		Regional
Counties Affected:	Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Hamilton, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla, Walton
Recipient:	Panhandle Area Education Consortium		Contact:		Jim Magill
	735 West Blvd.		Contact Phone:		(850) 681-0411
	Chipley 32428
Project Description:
The Center will utilize the latest communications technology to connect educators and school personnel in the 12 rural school districts in PAEC with the latest diagnosis, research, and treatment modalities of the psychology, psychiatry, and pediatrics health professions at the University of Florida to identify, study, diagnose and treat troubled school children with a potential for violent behaviors. The Center and PAEC will also develop and implement a comprehensive training program to educate teachers, administrators, and other school personnel regarding violent behavior warning signs and conflict resolution methods so that they can defuse situations before they escalate to a critical level. The Center would utilize personnel in the PAEC service districts to interface with full time Center personnel at UF who in turn would coordinate the professional expertise from the various disciplines in the health professions field. The goal is to begin this as a pilot project with PAEC this year and then to subsequently expand to service the additional education consortiums which service rural school districts. It is envisioned that future funding would expand to include Federal and private grant funding sources.
Services Provided/Benefit to State:
The benefits to the State of Florida would be three fold: 1) The direct consultation and treatment of troubled school children with potentially violent behavior. 2) The development and implementation of a comprehensive training program for teachers, administrators and other school personnel based on the latest research coordinated by one of the top research institutions in the Nation. 3) The expansion of the model so as to be able to service all of the rural school districts in the State of Florida in future years with professional resources that they otherwise could not afford to employ.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
The most readily measurable outcome would be the number of school district personnel in the 12-county PAEC service area, which receive continuing training. Additional outcomes will be measured by the number of students within the 43,000 that are serviced by PAEC that receive professional counseling and medical analysis from the UF component of the Center. These outcomes would expand as the program expands in future years to incorporate the other rural school districts that would be willing to participate.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:				$650,000
Total cost of the project:		$650,000

Request has been made to fund:			Operations
Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?				No
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?				Unknown
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?				Yes
	Hearing Body:	Panhandle Area Education Consortium Board of Directors
	Meeting Date:	01/19/2000