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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #75 |
| Turning Point |
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| Requester: |
Doug Leonardo |
Organization: |
West Care Florida |
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| Project Title: |
Turning Point |
Date Submitted |
1/12/2005 9:32:21 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Miller |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Turning Point - a 56-bed, homeless, inebriate intervention and placement center - is the only program of its kind in the State of Florida. As a result, we accept clients from throughout the State. The homeless population is highly transient; therefore, individuals from all parts of Florida find their way to Turning Point. By engaging the homeless in our services, we focus on increasing their motivation to begin the process of recovery, thereby, enhancing individual functionality. Recovery from substance use and/or mental health disorders with concurrent transition from homelessness has the positive impact of decreasing interventions by law enforcement and the courts, days in jail, visits to emergency rooms for primary care treatment, and admissions to psychiatric units for stabilization with a concomitant reduction in the fiscal burden on the State's indigent primary/ behavioral healthcare and criminal justice systems. |
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| Recipient: |
West Care Florida |
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Contact: |
Doug Leonardo |
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2525 1st Ave. South |
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Contact Phone: |
(727) 328-1752 |
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St. Petersburg 33712 |
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Contact email: |
dleonardo@westcare.com |
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| Counties: |
Pinellas |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| (Include services to be provided): Through this proposed project, Turning Point will be able to enhance the credentials of its staff to develop a multidisciplinary team of professionals. The team will triage homeless persons who present themselves to accurately screen and assess urgent as well as short-and long-term needs; provide crisis intervention services; initiate pre-service motivational counseling to engage potential clients in the treatment process; facilitate integrated primary healthcare, substance abuse, and mental health services that stabilize the client and refer to other treatment entities as needed; coordinate referrals with transitional and permanent housing providers; and provide case management that matches homeless clients with appropriate primary and behavioral health, social, vocational, housing, transportation, and other subsistence services. The team will encourage homeless clients to reconnect with family and/or other support networks and, when indicated, assist clients to return to return to previous residences that may be in another state. |
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| Is this a project related to 2004 hurricane damage? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| This program will support the Federal and State goal to end chronic homelessness by accomplishing the following objectives: 1) A multidisciplinary professional team will triage 100 percent homeless inebriants admitted annually for services at Turning Point to assess urgent as well as short- and long-term individual needs; 2) The team will initiate referrals to treatment and other services that match the assessed individual needs for 100 percent of homeless inebriates triaged annually; 3) The team will provide case management services that support transitional or permanent housing solutions for at least 75 percent of homeless inebriates triaged. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$850,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$1,062,500 |
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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 |
$ |
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In-kind Amount |
$212,500 |
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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: |
$500,000 |
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: |
2004-2005 Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration action plan for homelessness. |
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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: |
St. Petersburg City Council |
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Hearing Meeting Date: |
12/09/2004 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
