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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #219 |
| PACE Center for Girls, Collier at Immokalee |
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| Requester: |
Threasa Miller |
Organization: |
PACE Center for Girls, Collier at Immokalee |
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| Project Title: |
PACE Center for Girls, Collier at Immokalee |
Date Submitted |
1/13/2005 10:54:40 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Aronberg |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Gender specific services for at-risk adolescent females. |
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| Recipient: |
PACE Center for Girls, Collier at Immokalee |
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Contact: |
Threasa Miller |
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N. 1st Street |
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Contact Phone: |
(239) 657-2400 |
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Immokalee 34142 |
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Contact email: |
paceimmokalee@earthlink.net |
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| Counties: |
Collier |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| PACE Collier is a gender specific prevention/intervention program that provides academics, intense counseling, and life-skill education services to girls between 11-18 years of age, identified as at-risk. PACE's on-site educational services ensure that academic needs are addressed and ultimately result in promotion and/or graduation. Girls are assigned to a teacher/advisor and social worker to address therapeutic and academic treatment plan goals. Three full-time counselors provide individual, group and family counseling services. The ultimate goal of PACE is to divert girls with identifiable risk factors from entering the DJJ System and to assist their development as productive citizens. With this current appropriation, PACE intends to match the funding and re-locate its current program from a rented building of 6,000 square feet and build a 2.75-acre campus with community use space. This project will expand services to include an additional 35-40 girls, ages 11-18 identified as high risk for delinquency behavior. |
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| Is this a project related to 2004 hurricane damage? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| The overall outcome measure of this project is to reduce the number of girls (ages 11-18) served by PACE from entering the juvenile justice system by 70%. This outcome will be achieved by reducing at-risk factors and delinquent behavior through education, counseling and life-skill development in a safe, nuturing, gender sensitive and competent environment. Indicators such as attendance, grade and high school completion, acceleration in standardized settings and a reduction of referrals and adjudications to DJJ will be tracked. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$1,000,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$3,900,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Construction |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Private |
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Cash Amount |
$2,100,000 |
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In-kind Amount |
$40,000 |
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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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No |
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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: |
The waiting list for the Collier at Immokalee program continues to grow. |
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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 |
