| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #2399 | |||||||||
| Outpatient Mental Health Services-Nassau County | |||||||||
| Requester: | Edwin W. Dews | Organization: | Sutton Place Behavioral Health, Inc. | ||||||
| Project Title: | Outpatient Mental Health Services-Nassau County | Date Submitted | 1/13/2006 12:40:10 PM | ||||||
| Sponsors: | King | ||||||||
| Statewide Interest: | |||||||||
| Consistent with the mandate to provide public mental health services for the indigent in rural counties. | |||||||||
| Recipient: | Sutton Place Behavioral Health, Inc. | Contact: | Edwin W. Dews | ||||||
| 910 South 8th Street, Ste. 300 | Contact Phone: | (904) 491-2001 | |||||||
| Fernandina Beach 32034 | Contact email: | edews@spbh.org | |||||||
| Counties: | Nassau | ||||||||
| Gov't Entity: | Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): | Yes | |||||||
| Project Description: | |||||||||
| Expand capacity to provide additional required outpatient Mental Health Services to include psychiatric care, counseling services, and medication management to the indigent residents of Nassau County. Sutton Place Behavioral Health has experienced unprecedented growth numbers of clinets that require these services, but lacks adequate operating funds (staff, opeating expenses) to provide the same. Sutton Place has received no increase in funding from DCF for these services in the past three years, in fact, funding for adult mental health has decreased | |||||||||
| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? | No | ||||||||
| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: | |||||||||
| Increased numbers of clients abole to receive required services, shorter waiting lists, decreased incideences of clientsk using local hospital emergency room services. | |||||||||
| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: | $100,000 | ||||||||
| Total cost of the project: | $100,000 | ||||||||
| Request has been made to fund: | Operations | ||||||||
| What type of match exists for this project? | None | ||||||||
| Cash Amount | $ | ||||||||
| Was this project previously funded by the state? | No | ||||||||
| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? | No | ||||||||
| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? | Yes | ||||||||
| Agency | Children And Families, Department Of | ||||||||
| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? | No | ||||||||
| Is there a documented need for this project? | Yes | ||||||||
| Documentation: | Needs Assessment | ||||||||
| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? | No | ||||||||
| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? | No | ||||||||