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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1053 |
| Children's Community Action Team (CAT Team) |
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| Requester: |
Jan Eustis |
Organization: |
Ruth Cooper Behavioral Health Center |
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| Project Title: |
Children's Community Action Team (CAT Team) |
Date Submitted |
1/11/2006 11:30:32 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Bennett |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| The Children's Community Action Team (CAT Team) is the continuation of a Legislative demonstration project for a statewide solution to the escalating costs of residential treatment of seriously emotionally disturbed children. A community and home-based team of behavioral health experts is available to parents 24 hours a day, allowing seriously ill children to remain in their homes. Current demonstration sites are Manatee and Lee Counties. |
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| Recipient: |
Jan EustisRuth Cooper Behavioral Health Center/Manatee Glens |
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Contact: |
Jan Eustis |
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2789 Ortiz Avenue |
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Contact Phone: |
(239) 275-3222 |
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Fort Myers 33905 |
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Contact email: |
eustis@rccbhc.org |
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| Counties: |
Lee, Manatee |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| Manatee Glens and Ruth Cooper Center provide a community behavioral health treatment solution for parents and caretakers of seriously emotionally disturbed children as an alternative to state-funded residential treatment away from the child's home. Incedents of severe emotional disturbance in children requiring intensive behavioral health treatment occur in about one of every fifty children. Despite the numbers of children needing such care. Florida lacks an intensive treatment alternative that parents can access without giving up their children to a state-funded institution. As a result, the most common way children access residential treatment in Florida is through the foster care or juvenile justice systems. Through two Children's Community Action Teams, one in Manatee County and one in Lee County, a total of 100 children age 5-18 at risk of residential placement receive intensive services from a team of psychiatrists, counselors, case managers and therapeutic mentors available sven days a week and 24 hours a day. This demonstration project successfully stabilizes the youth's mental illness so that they can continue to live in their community with their family |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| 28.6 days per month community (versus residential treatment) for 100 seriously emotionally disturbed children a year. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$1,879,750 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$1,879,750 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
None |
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Cash Amount |
$ |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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Yes |
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Fiscal Year: |
2005-06 |
Amount: |
$912,500 |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$1,936,143 |
To Fund: |
Operations |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
Dept. of Children and Families Annual Mental Health Plan, Ag for Health Care Adm., Medicaid SIPP IMD |
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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: |
Lee, Sarasota, & Manatee legislative Delegation Meetings |
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Hearing Meeting Date: |
11/17/2005 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
