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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #142 |
| Sarasota County Juvenile Assessment Center |
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| Requester: |
Dr. Christine Cauffield |
Organization: |
Coastal Behavioral Healthcare |
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| Project Title: |
Sarasota County Juvenile Assessment Center |
Date Submitted |
1/14/2003 5:12:35 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Carlton |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Juvenile Assessment Centers continue to be a priority throughout the state. Each JAC serves juveniles in the region in which they are located. Data collected at JACs benefits the state in its efforts to reduce juvenile crime and substance abuse in Florida. |
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| Recipient: |
Coastal Behavioral Healthcare |
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Contact: |
Colleen Thayer |
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3830 Bee Ridge Road |
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Contact Phone: |
(941) 927-8900 |
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Sarasota 34233 |
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| Counties: |
Charlotte, DeSoto, Lee, Manatee, Sarasota |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| The mission of the Juvenile Assessment Center is to reduce juvenile crime and substance abuse in Sarasota County. With collaboration from all entities involved in the JAC, a full range of opportunities that promote youth reaching their full potential and the prevention of youth from committing crimes and using/abusing substances will be provided. Services at the JAC include: Department of Juvenile Justice Detention Screening/ Delinquency Intake; Screening: Suicide Screening and Baker Act Processing, Physical Assessment, Screening as to risk and need for a full-bio-psychosocial assessment, Field Urinalysis testing; Bio-Psychosocial Assessment, done 24/7 in North County (Sarasota), one day a week in South Sarasota County, and once a month in Arcadia (DeSoto County); Case Management - this includes receiving and release of youth to parents, guardians, detention transport, or arrangement of shelter for youth who cannot go home (but who are not eligible for detention), referral to treatment resources, including crisis intervention resources and outpatient resources, and follow-up and case management regarding linking the youth and their families to treatment. Data Management; Drug Screening; Mobile Assessment function at the Manatee Regional Detention Center and at various DJJ community-based programs upon their request; and Suicide Probability Assessment. Additionally, JAC staff makes referral recommendations for non-crisis, on-going outpatient treatment. The JAC will also begin a truancy component in the near future in collaboration with the Sarasota County School District. |
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| Is this a water project as described in Chapter 2002-291, Laws of Florida? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| The Sarasota JAC is meeting the need in Sarasota County to increase law enforcement officer time in their jobs by shortening the length of time it takes to process a juvenile arrest. Several thousand youth have received assessments and associated JAC services. The JAC provides opportunities to prevent delinquent behavior and provide proper referral for treatment for families and their children and adolescents whom may be engaging in delinquent behavior, thereby reducing crime and substance abuse among the youth in Sarasota County. The JAC currently utilizes several data base systems to track and provide data management and provide measurable outcomes on assessments. These include the Department of Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS), the CMHC Data Management System, and the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS). The case management component of the JAC is also critical to successful tracking of the outcome measures.
The JAC continues to have an Advisory Board, which meets monthly and is made up of community providers and open to the public. The JAC is also part of the Sarasota Juvenile Justice Council (now a part of their by-laws), which provides oversight to all juvenile justice programs in the community.
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$210,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$469,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local, Private |
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Cash Amount |
$259,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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Yes |
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Fiscal Year: |
2002-2003 |
Amount: |
$210,000 |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Unknown |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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Yes |
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Agency |
Juvenile Justice, Department Of |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
Unknown |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
Assessments/data collected at JAC help to reduce juvenile crime &substance abuse. |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Sarasota County Commission |
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Hearing Meeting Date: |
05/07/2001 |
