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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #353 |
| Manatee Children's Community Action Team (CAT Team) |
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| Requester: |
Mary Ruiz |
Organization: |
Manatee Glens |
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| Project Title: |
Manatee Children's Community Action Team (CAT Team) |
Date Submitted |
12/19/2007 3:31:05 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Bennett |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| The Children's Community Action Team (CAT Team) is the fourth year of continuation of a Legislative initiative in Manatee County for a statewide solution to the escalating costs of juvenile justice, residential treatment and foster care of seriously emotionally disturbed children. A team of counselors, a psychiatrist, nurses, case managers and therapeutic mentors are available to parents 24 hours a day, allowing seriously ill children to remain in their homes for only $52 a day as compared to more than $300 a day in an institution. |
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| Recipient: |
Manatee Glens |
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Contact: |
Mary Ruiz |
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391 6th Ave. West |
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Contact Phone: |
(941) 782-4299 |
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Bradenton 34205 |
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Contact email: |
ruizm@manateeglens.com |
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| Counties: |
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: |
| For three years, the Legislature has funded Manatee Glens to provide a statewide pilot for seriously emotionally disturbed children as an alternative to state-funded residential treatment, juvenile justice facilities or foster care away from the child�s home. Incidents 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 juvenile justice or foster care systems. This has led to a juvenile justice crisis similar to the criminal justice crisis suffered by the State last year. There are not enough juvenile justice beds to house children with mental illness. The CAT Team is a proven lower cost solution that can be implemented statewide. A total of 50 children age 5-18 at risk of residential placement receive intensive services from a team of psychiatrists, counselors, case managers and therapeutic mentors available seven days a week and 24 hours a day. These services stabilize the youth�s mental illness so that they can continue to live in the home with their family for only $52 a day. |
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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 in community (versus residential treatment) for 25 seriously emotionally disturbed children a year. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$750,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$728,289 |
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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: |
2007-2008 |
Amount: |
$250,000 |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$990,000 |
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: |
Department of Children and Families Annual Mental Health Plan, AHCA.Medicaid.SIPP.IMD Waiver |
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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: |
Manatee County Legislative Delegation on December 4, 2007 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
