Senate Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1232 SOS Children's Village of Florida
Requester:	Margie Bruszer		Organization:		SOS Children's Village of Florida
Project Title:	SOS Children's Village of Florida		Date Submitted:		01/27/2000 2:15:33 PM
District Member:	Walter Campbell		Service Area:		County
Counties Affected:	Broward
Recipient:	SOS Children's Village of Florida		Contact:		Margie Bruszer
	3681 Northwest 59th Place		Contact Phone:		(954) 420-5030
	Coconut Creek 33073
Project Description:
SOS is a licensed child caring agency providing permanent care for up to 55 foster childre, currently ranging from age 6 to 18, who are in the custody of the Department of Children and Families. The uniqueness of SOS is its mission to provide a permanent foster care placement, reuniting siblings, and actually raising the children until they reach independence and self-sufficiency as young adults. The children served have been determined by the department and the courts to be unable to return to their biological families and to be in need of long-term care.
Services Provided/Benefit to State:
In addition to the benefits reccognized by children who are a part of the SOS family, SOS Children's Village helps to reduce the burden on the State of Florida's already overloaded and failing foster care system, particularly in Broward County, which has larger numbers and percentages of foster children who are older and harder to place with traditional foster than in other districts of the Department of Children and Families. Likewise, adoptive placement for these children is much less likely in larger numbers in Broward County than elsewhere in the State.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Dependent children will be provided a safe, loving and nurturing home. Additional goals for the development and care of the children will be in accord with the existing contractual terms with the Broward County Children's Services Board.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:				$327,000
Total cost of the project:		$2,000,000

Request has been made to fund:			Operations
Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?						Yes
	Cash Amount:	$1,057,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?						Yes
	Fiscal Year:	1999-2000		Amount:		$315,000
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?						Yes
	Amount:	$327,000
	Purpose for future year funding:				Recurring Operations
	Will this be an annual request?					Yes
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?						Unknown
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?						Unknown
Is there a documented need for this project?						Yes
	Documentation:	The Department of Children and Families has documented the need for more foster care placements
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?						Yes
	Hearing Body:	Broward County Legislative Delegation
	Meeting Date:	12/02/1999