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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1175 |
| Cathedral House Family Visitation Center |
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| Requester: |
A. Kay Dawson |
Organization: |
Cathedral House Family Visitation Center |
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| Project Title: |
Cathedral House Family Visitation Center |
Date Submitted |
1/4/2008 11:50:58 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Bullard |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Comprehensive social and human services covering children and families separated through divorce court and various family matters. |
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| Recipient: |
Cathedral House Family Visitation Center |
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Contact: |
A. Kay Dawson |
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17405 South Dixie Highway |
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Contact Phone: |
(305) 278-2683 |
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Village of Palmetto Bay 33157 |
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Contact email: |
cathedralhouse@bellsouth.net |
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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: |
| The separation of children from their parents either through the dependency or family court system is a traumatic experience. This separation leads to severed birth connections, and feelings of hopelessness and despair. The primary hope of these children is that they will be reunified with their parents. Ongoing interaction between child and parent, barring serious threat of harm or egregious abuse, is statutorily mandated and court ordered; however barriers often prevent visitation from occurring as required. These barriers generally include problems with transportation, case overload, inadequate visitation sites, inadequate visit supervision, and the lack of positive support. It is the goal of the Cathedral House Visitation Center to assist community based care providers with minimizing and eliminating these barriers, while providing quality supervised visitation.
We Meet These Goals By Providing the Following Services:
- Supervised visits in a safe, non-adversarial environment where parents and children share quality time.
- Visits are supervised by Masters and Bachelor level professionals who work directly with the community based provider(s) to identify needs that are to be addressed before reunification.
- Parent child interaction is assessed and monitored by frequent visitation.
- Visitation is pre-arranged and transportation is provided.
- Visits are also made to schools and providers to assess progress/compliance of children and parents.
- Quality assessments and progress reports will be completed to measure and report compliance and progress to the courts and providers.
- Tutoring, mentoring, parenting classes, and family counseling are available via Cathedral House associated programs.
- Services are provided daily - including weekends and extended hours. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| - Serviced a minimum of one-hundred (100) families, allowing therapeutic supervised visitation resulting in reunification with parents and siblings and fulfilling Florida Statute- Chapter 39 requirements.
- Serviced a minimum of thirty (30) families with family counseling, nurturing parenting, pairs counseling, and extended co-parenting.
- Serviced a minimum of sixty (60) children with tutoring and summer camp opportunities.
- Serviced over fifty (50) children with daily transportation to and from daycares and schools. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$300,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$300,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local, Private |
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Cash Amount |
$80,000 |
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In-kind Amount |
$80,000 |
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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: |
$300,000 |
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: |
Florida Statute; Chapter 39: PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO CHILDREN |
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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 |
