Report Title:

Transitional Living Program; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates $200,000 for a transitional living program for unserved street youth for FY 2001-2002.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

781

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A TRANSITIONAL LIVING PROGRAM FOR UNSERVED STREET YOUTH.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that transitional living, independent living, and foster care programs exist for youths receiving services through the department of health, the judiciary, or the department of human services. Approximately one thousand two hundred youths aged eighteen to twenty-one do not qualify for state-funded programs due to age, legal or family status, or other considerations. Many of these youths are homeless.

Since 1997, the Hawaii Youth Services Network, Hale Kipa, Family Support Services of West Hawaii, and Maui Youth and Family Services have obtained $200,000 in federal funds, $26,010 of in-kind matches, $34,440 in state funds, and $4,000 in contributions to fund the development and implementation of the Transitional Living Program for Unserved Street Youth, which is a coordinated system of care for street youth that addresses housing, employment, education, and mental health needs. In 1999, the Transitional Living Program provided:

(1) Outreach services to more than three hundred youths;

(2) Intensive services including information and referral, case management, advocacy, financial assistance, skill building, and linkages to sixty youths; and

(3) Residential placement for more than twenty youths.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for a transitional living program for unserved street youth.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $200,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for a transitional living program for unserved street youth. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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