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This document presents the budget request for Fiscal Year 2007-2008 by Melissa P. Jaacks, CPA, Assistant Secretary for Administration. It includes details on the Department of Children and Families' mission, budget allocation increase, mental health requests, child welfare requests, adult protective investigator workload, completion of Florida SACWIS system, and funding for SACWIS project.
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Legislative Budget Request forFiscal Year 2007-2008 Presented by Melissa P. Jaacks, CPA Assistant Secretary for Administration October 13, 2006
DCF Mission • Protect the vulnerable; • Promote strong and economically self-sufficient families; • Advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.
DCF Budget Request for FY 2007-08 ($ in thousands) Total Increase Over FY 06-07 $ 3,230,614
Adult Protective Investigator Workload Increase • Adult Protective Investigators serve vulnerable adults and elderly Floridians • The number of reports increased almost 20% from fiscal year 2003-2004 to 2005-2006 and is expected to increase another 13% from fiscal year 2005-2006 to 2007-2008 • National standards recommend workload of no more than 12 investigations per month per employee (or 144 annually). Currently, the Department is at 13.6 per month and will increase to 14.5 per month in 2007-2008 without new positions. • Request is for 35 FTE’s to achieve ratio of 12.9 $2,984,629 Adult Protection Request Detail
Completion of Florida SACWIS System • Support the systems’ integrator in producing these deliverables timely • Fund quality assurance and independent verification and validation (IV and V) contracts • Reimburse participating partners for staff time allocated to the SACWIS project (for example, staff time used for user acceptance testing) . $8,672,996 SACWIS