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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1029 |
| Florida Resiliency Project |
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| Requester: |
Teresa Descilo |
Organization: |
Victim Services- The Trauma Resolution Center |
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| Project Title: |
Florida Resiliency Project |
Date Submitted |
1/3/2008 12:52:45 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Wilson |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Florida has been a state under sige from stress resulting from overly active hurricane seasons, property taxes and homeowner's insurance. Residents of Florida are very stressed out. This project is regional in scope, but will meet the documented need for stress reduction and resiliency statewide. |
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| Recipient: |
Victim Services |
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Contact: |
Teresa Descilo |
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111 SW 3rd Street, 2nd Floor |
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Contact Phone: |
(786) 246-6665 |
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Miami 33130 |
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Contact email: |
teresa@vscmiami.org |
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| Counties: |
Miami-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: |
| This project entails teaching Florida residents resiliency-creating tools in order to help them recover from past hurricane seasons, as well as cope with the stress of property taxes and insurance and other financial stressors. Research now definitively shows that stress underlies most physical ills. Teaching people techniques that they can make part of their usual routine or immediate response to stress will create many benefits. There will be less illness, lower blood pressure, less substance abuse, better focus, being in the right frame of mind for learning, better relationships. This would be utilized to hire personnel to market trainings and a website, create the website, hire the trainers as well as make material available on state and other relevant websites. This project has been successfully piloted through funding from the Children�s Trust after the 2005 hurricane season. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
Yes |
| If yes, which declared disaster? |
Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma |
| If yes, which year? |
2005 |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Health indicator related to stress, such as depression, anxiety and related symptoms will be reduced per measurements given by those trainers trained by this program. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$280,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$400,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local |
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Cash Amount |
$120,000 |
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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: |
$225,000 |
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? |
Unknown |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
National Institute of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. |
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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 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
