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

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

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.

INTRODUCED BY:

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