Report Title:
Child Protective Services
Description:
Makes appropriation for blueprint for change program of the DHS for diversion services and child protection services
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
95 |
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TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001 |
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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 $662,450, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for the delivery of diversion services and child protective services to target families, to be allocated as follows:
$150,000 Neighborhood Place of Kona
150,000 Neighborhood Place of Waipahu
46,200 Executive director salary and benefits
5,000 Training
250,000 Expansion of 2 additional neighborhood places
20,000 Data evaluation and report
10,000 Upgrade data collection
2,500 Strategic planning sessions
23,750 Operational expenses, including:
7,650 Airfare
2,400 Office rent
2,000 Board insurance
3,000 Accounting services
500 Postage
1,200 Board support
1,000 Printing
600 Mileage
1,800 Office supplies
1,200 Utilities
2,400 Data monthly maintenance fee
SECTION 3. The sum 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, 2001.
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