| |
| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1224 |
| Join a Team, Not a Gang |
| |
| Requester: |
Major James DiBernardo |
Organization: |
Miami-Dade Police Department |
| |
| Project Title: |
Join a Team, Not a Gang |
Date Submitted |
1/13/2004 3:07:38 PM |
| |
| Sponsors: |
Wilson |
| |
| Statewide Interest: |
| Join-A-Team, Not a Gang would serve as a model for
partnerships between local government and universities throughout the State of Florida.
|
| |
| Recipient: |
Miami-Dade Police Department |
|
Contact: |
Major James DiBernardo |
|
| |
9105 NW 25th St Room 1044 |
|
Contact Phone: |
(305) 471-1793 |
|
| |
Miami 33172 |
|
Contact email: |
|
| |
| Counties: |
Dade |
| |
| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
|
| |
| Project Description: |
| Join-A-Team, Not A Gang is a gang prevention program that plans to serve 22,000 children in 200 schools, and will be staffed by 1 sergeant and 24 officers. This presentation component of the program will be available to all 5th grade students in Miami-Dade County's (MDC) unincorporated areas served by Miami-Dade Police Department, and focuses on gang alternatives and resistance strategies for students as they get ready to enter middle school. The University of Miami's Athletic Department will be a partner in this program by providing athletes and coaches as role models. The university will also provide sports camps, tickets to sports events, tours of their campus, and provide students with access to team practices.
Another 2,900 children will be impacted by this program through sports camps, sports clinics, and field trips to University of Miami sports events and youth sports teams. This component makes this program more than just a message, as it provides children with alternative attitudes. These activities would be available to boys and girls, ages 10 through 14.
|
| |
| Is this a water project as described in Chapter 2002-291, Laws of Florida? |
No |
| |
| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Teach gang alternatives and resistance strategies to 22,000 in 200 schools. |
| |
| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$200,000 |
| |
| Total cost of the project: |
$571,483 |
| |
| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
| |
| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local |
| |
Cash Amount |
$371,483 |
|
| |
| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
|
Yes |
|
Fiscal Year: |
1998-1999 |
Amount: |
$100,000 |
| |
| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
|
Yes |
|
Amount: |
$200,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations |
| |
| 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: |
Miami-Dade Police Dep't statistics on juvenile crime & gang activity show increase of activity & mem |
| |
| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
|
Yes |
| |
Hearing Body: |
Miami-Dade County Legislative Delegation |
| |
Hearing Meeting Date: |
12/03/2003 |
