Report Title:
Child Protective Services; Blueprint for Change
Description:
Makes appropriation for blueprint for change program of the department of human services for diversion services and child protection services.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1055 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
Making an appropriation for blueprint for change.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that one of the recommendations of a 1994-1996 task force on child protective services reform was to implement a community partnership for child protection. A major component of this partnership was to be the establishment of the neighborhood place to deliver diversion services and child protective services to targeted families.
The neighborhood place provides a community-based center for services and community support for abused or neglected children and their families as well as for families at risk of child abuse. Each neighborhood place has been patterned around the needs of the specific community and has included a physical site for these families to work with private and public service providers. A wide range of services and resources are available from early response to continued services for families already facing problems.
Limited start-up funding for neighborhood place sites in west Hawaii and Waipahu were obtained through local foundation grants and federal Title IVB moneys. However, without continued funding for the pilot period, the neighborhood places will not be able to carry out the system reform that the task force and the legislature recommended.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for the blueprint for change program and existing neighborhood places.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2004-2005, for the delivery of diversion services and child protective services to target families, to be allocated as follows:
Neighborhood place of Kona
Neighborhood place of Waipahu
Executive director salary and benefits
Training
Expansion of two additional neighborhood places
Data evaluation and report
Upgrade data collection
Strategic planning sessions
Operational expenses, including:
Airfare
Office rent
Board insurance
Accounting services
Postage
Board support
Printing
Mileage
Office supplies
Utilities
Data monthly maintenance fee
SECTION 3. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.
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