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Recommendations |
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| General Administration and Support | ||
| 1 | Appropriate Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund benefits. | $500,000 |
| 2 | Provide funds to draw down the full allotment of federal Family Caregiver funds (Total funds - $2,327,795). |
144,213
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| Division of Public Health | ||
| 3 | Support the state's ability to react to bioterrorism by funding the following: |
2,060,000
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| a. Six epidemiologists in Dalton, Gainesville, Clayton, East Metro, Dublin, and Brunswick public health districts to complete statewide epidemiological coverage (Total funds - $480,000). | ||
| b. Emergency coordinators in each of the 19 Public Health districts (Total funds - $825,000). | ||
| c. State level Epidemiologist, Emergency Coordinator, and Molecular Biologist (Total funds - $235,000). | ||
| d. Equipment and ongoing expenses for a statewide satellite communication systems (SATCOM) for each of the 19 Public Health districts (Total funds - $197,500). | ||
| e. Operating expenses to expand the state's diagnostic testing capabilities (Total funds - $50,000). | ||
| f. Funding to develop an integrated statewide trauma system, support hospital data collection, and emergency simulation training (Total funds - $2,332,500). | ||
| 4 | Provide additional funding to cover increasing costs of
vaccinations for uninsured children, including the cost of a new pneumococcal
conjugate vaccine, which protects against bacterial meningitis and ear
and blood infections.
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1,513,940
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| Division of Family and Children Services | ||
| Child Protective Services | ||
| 5 | Fund the array of services offered to support both children and families in foster care and to expand services to help prevent the removal of the child from the home. Services include: |
6,254,592
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| a. 135 institutionally-supervised family foster care slots (Total funds - $587,250); | ||
| b. 41 MATCH wrap-around slots (Total funds - $1,098,636); | ||
| c. An array of support services for the children and their families (Total funds - $6,518,416); | ||
| d. Intensive services to prevent a child's removal from the home (Total funds - $1,000,000); | ||
| e. Assessments to measure the progress and well being of children in out-of-home placements (Total funds - $1,374,500); and | ||
| f. 1 Office of Regulatory Services contracted surveyor (Total funds - $60,000). The total funding for this array of services is $10,611,802. | ||
| 6 | Add 90 line staff and 10 supervisors, plus equipment, for the second year of a plan to reduce child protection worker caseloads (Total funds - $6,485,337). |
4,352,129
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| 7 | Funding to support a projected 2.5% growth in the number of children in family foster care and 5% growth in the number of children needing adoption assistance (Total funds - $2,873,349). |
2,143,677
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| 8 | Increase funds for students in the foster care higher education scholarship program using new eligibility criteria (Total funds - $260,000). |
260,000
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| 9 | Provide funds to revise the social services training curriculum, add 1 trainer, 1 administrative coordinator, develop curriculum and perform evaluations (Total funds - $1,330,700). |
573,873
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| 10 | Fund 2 pilot sites in Fulton and DeKalb counties to expand private emergency foster care services. (Total funds - $1,095,000) |
423,600
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| 11 | Additional funds to cover increased costs for institutional foster care (Total funds - $887,095). |
354,838
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| 12 | Provide additional operating funds for the Office of Child Fatality Review of the Statewide Child Abuse Prevention Panel (Total funds - $40,073). |
40,073
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| Georgia Early Learning Initiative | ||
| 13 | Provide funds to the Georgia Early Learning Initiative to improve the quality of child care by expanding the tiered reimbursement pilot project and technical assistance in Tift, Clayton, Berrien and Dougherty counties. |
1,580,000
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| Revenue Maximization | ||
| 14 | Restore state funds reduced for DFCS children in state custody. |
1,020,732
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| 15 | Provide funding for regional eligibility centers to identify and maintain Medicaid eligibility for children in state custody (State funds - $1,551,993; Total funds - $1,676,355). |
Yes
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| Division of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse | ||
| 16 | Provide Intensive Family Intervention services in homes, schools, and other community locations for families with children who are seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) (Total Funds $2,929,394). |
2,412,290
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| 17 | Provide funds to transition 65 children with mental retardation from state hospitals to community placements (Total funds - $3,520,061). |
1,596,629
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| Revenue Maximization | ||
| 18 | Restore state funds reduced for MHMRSA mental health services for children in state custody. |
1,040,000
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| 19 | Restore state funds reduced for MHMRSA mental health services for children participating in the Outdoor Therapeutic Program |
1,000,000
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| TOTAL ENHANCEMENT - STATE GENERAL FUNDS |
$27,270,586
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| TOTAL - STATE GENERAL FUNDS |
$1,387,490,599
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