Report Title:
Grant-in-aid; Transitional Living Program
Description:
Appropriates $200,000 as a grant-in-aid subsidy to the Hawaii Youth Services Network for its Transitional Living Program for Unserved Street Youth for FY 2001-2002.
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
88 |
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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 to the hawaii youth services network for its 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 Hawaii Youth Services Network for its Transitional Living Program for Unserved Street Youth to avoid shutting down the program, which will cause unserved street youth to return to the streets.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $200,00 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, as a grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Youth Services Network for its 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.
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