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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1650 |
| Christian Homes for Children, Inc. |
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| Requester: |
Senetta Carter |
Organization: |
Christian Homes for Children, Inc. |
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| Project Title: |
Christian Homes for Children, Inc. |
Date Submitted |
1/14/2004 5:04:10 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Wilson |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Improvement of care of abused children. |
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| Recipient: |
Christian Homes for Children, Inc. |
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Contact: |
Senetta Carter |
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7700 W 20th Avenue, Suite A |
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Contact Phone: |
(305) 825-0517 |
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Hialeah 33016 |
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Contact email: |
senettacar@aol.com |
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| Counties: |
Dade |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| Christian Homes for Children, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable, non-profit organization that provides safe homes of love for abused children. Our mission is to provide a home for any child regardless of ethnic origin or origin condition. While most of our children come from court-mandated cases, we also make our homes available for any orphan. The uniqueness of Christian Homes for Children is its mission to provide a permanent foster care placement, recruiting siblings, and actually raising the children until they reach independent ans self-sufficiency as young adults. Many of children served have been determined by the department and the courts to be unable to return to the biological families and to be in need of long-term care.
In addition to the benefits recognized by children who are a part of the Christian Homes for Children families, Christian Homes for Children helps to reduce the burden on the State of Florida's already overlaoded and failing foster care system, particularly in Miami-Dade 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 large numbers in Miami-Dade County than elsewhere in the State. |
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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: |
| Dependent children will be provided a safe loving and nurturing home. Additional goals for development and care of th children will be in accord wit hthe existing contractural terms with Miami-Dade County Children's Services Board. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$100,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$200,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Private |
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Cash Amount |
$100,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$100,000 |
To Fund: |
Operations |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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Unknown |
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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: |
The Department of Children and Families has documented the need for more foste care placements. |
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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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No |
