Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1502FY0102

Traumatic Brain Injury Family/Communtiy Support Services

Requester:

Elynor Kazuk

Organization:

Brain Injury Association of Florida, Inc.

Project Title:

Traumatic Brain Injury Family/Communtiy Support Services

Date Submitted:

1/18/2002 2:57:45 PM

Sponsors:

Walter Campbell

Statewide Interest:

This project provides long-term information, education, guidance and support to people with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and their families, as well as community and state agencies and programs so that people with TBI may remain in their communities as contributing members of society.� TBI affects 300,000 people in Florida, who will have life-long problems as a result of their injuries, BIAF is the only organization in Florida that provides long-term support of these under-served people.

Recipient:

Brain Injury Association of Florida, Inc.

Contact:

Elynor Kazuk

201 East Sample Road

Contact Phone:

(954) 786-2400

Pompano Beach 33064

Counties:

{Statewide}

Gov't Entity:

Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):

Yes

Project Description:

The proposed project is an integral part of a unique, statewide public/private delivery system that serves a population not served by any other state agency or program: people with traumatic brain injuries and their families. Individuals who incur a moderate to severe TBI are mandated by Florida law to be reported by hospitals to the Florida Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Central Registry.� If eligible, short-term rehabilitation services are provided by the Brain and Spianl cord Injury Program (BSCIP).� When this rehabilitation ends and the individual is placed in the community, Brain Injury Association of Florida (BIAF), a statewide private, nonprofit organization, is made available to provide continuing, long term support as needed in order to help the person and family remain in the community as a contributing citizen.� This project targets the needs of both the person living with TBI and the family and is part of a contium of services that range from access to a toll free HELPLINE, internet site, printed educational materials and resource directories to home visits by Family Support Specialists funded by this request.

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

During FY 2002, outcomes for ten sites include:

- 1,500 individuals will be educated about TBI and the Family Support Program

- 500 new, intensive cases will be opened to assist people with TBI and their families in their local communities

-240 community programs and agencies will eb educated about TBI so that those programs and agencies may serve people with TBI

-250 Nursing Home Assessments will be conducted to determine of certain people with TBI who are currently won nursing homes may be able to be placed back into their communities.

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$785,400

Total cost of the project:

$1,240,899

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

What type of match exists for this project?

Private, Federal

Cash Amount:

$445,728

In-Kind Amount:

$9,771

Was this project previously funded by the State?

Yes

Fiscal Year:

2000-2001

Amount:

$300,000

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

Yes

Amount:

$785,400

Purpose for future year funding:

Recurring Operations

Will this be an annual request?

Yes

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:

Center for Policy Studies in Education, FSU, August 1999; US General Accounting Office Report 1998

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

Yes

Hearing Body:

House Health and Human Services Appropriations� Committee

Meeting Date:

2/18/1999