Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1111FY0102
Home Instruction program for Pre-School Youngersters
Requester:		Lee Johnson			Organization:		YMCA
Project Title:		Home Instruction program for Pre-School Youngersters			Date Submitted:		1/18/2002 2:59:24 PM
Sponsors:		Michael Bennett
Statewide Interest:
This program is a well documented and reseurched assisting parents to prepare their children for school. This program serves parents and their children who live in sudsidized housing.
Recipient:		YMCA			Contact:		Lee Johnson
		One South School Ave.			Contact Phone:		(941) 366-3883
		Sarasota 34237
Counties:		DeSoto, Sarasota
Gov't Entity:			Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):					Yes
Project Description:
The HIPPY program (Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters) began in 1992. HIPPY is a home-based program for the educational environment of preschool children and for the promotion of increased awareness by their parents of their own strength and potential as home educators. Participation in the program helps the children become more responsible, responsive and successful school students, and improves parental self-image and attitudes towards education. HIPPY concentrates its efforts on families at or below poverty level operating within the subsidized housing communities in Sarasota and DeSoto counties. HIPPY in Sarasota and DeSoto has demonstrated success through eight years of tracking students graduating from the program. The HIPPY students remain out of the dependency and delinquency systems, are attending school, are staying at grade level, all students in our survey are carring a C average or above and many are on the honor roll. In each arena these achievements are dramatically above the students from the subsidized housing communities that were unable to be served in hte program. We have waiting lists of children at each site.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
95% of HIPPY graduates will demonstrate "school readiness" based on the test administered by the school district upon admission into kindergarden. 95% of HIPPY graduates will remain at grade level through elementary school, 90% of HIPPY graduates will not have a referal for child abuse.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:						$100,000
Identify items(s) in the FY 2002-03 Appropriations Bill to be reduced:
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Amount to be reduced:			$
Total cost of the project:			$500,000
Request has been made to fund:				Operations
What type of match exists for this project?					Local, Federal
	Cash Amount:		$400,000		In-Kind Amount:		$50,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?							Yes
	Fiscal Year:		2001		Amount:		$157,000
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?							Yes
	Amount:		$100,000
	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:		Current Waiting List of Over 100 children
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?							Yes
	Hearing Body:		Manatee County Delegation
	Meeting Date:		12/12/2001