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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1157 |
| Autism Intervention Services |
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| Requester: |
Susan Ventura |
Organization: |
Easter Seals Florida, Inc. |
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| Project Title: |
Autism Intervention Services |
Date Submitted |
1/2/2008 12:23:58 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Wise |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| This project helps families with children with autism become more independent; it helps children with autism obtain skills that will lead to more independence. |
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| Recipient: |
Easter Seals Florida, Tampa Bay Region |
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Contact: |
Grace Armstrong |
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7402 N. 56th St. #906 |
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Contact Phone: |
() 81-3417 |
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Tampa 33617 |
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Contact email: |
garmstrong@fl.easterseals.com |
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| Counties: |
Hillsborough, Polk |
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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 request is for a comprehensive community-wide approach to helping families with young children with autism to become self sufficient in the care and support of their child.. Easter Seals proposes to work with families through the PLAY program approach. The PLAY (Play and Language for Autistic Youngsters) project is a homebased parent teaching program that is research based and is extremely cost effective. A trained professional teaches families appropriate strategies and interventions to elicit desired behaviors and development related to their young child with autism. This program gives families the ability to be independent in working with their child for life as opposed to depending on expensive outside professionals for years. The average cost of PLAY intervention is $4000 per year as compared to the $40,000 to $60,000 per year of most other intervention Funding required for the success of this endeavor includes comprehensive training for professional interventionists (nurses, therapists, social workers) in PLAY technique. Also included are salaries, travel, and developmental equipment for professionals to utilize with families. We strongly believe this is a cost effective approach to combating autism which will put our state in the fore front of autism treatment. If successful in the Tampa Bay community (which research suggests it will be), this approach could be developed statewide as a cost effective, proactive solution to combating autism in Florida. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| 90 % of families served who complete the program will be able to support, care for, and enhance the abilities of their child with autism with limited or no public intervention. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$400,000 |
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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? |
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: |
$400,000 |
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? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
Community needs assessments; Combating Autism Act |
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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 |
