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Title: Recommendation: Description: Family HOPE (Helping Organize Partnerships for Empowerment) is funded through a Federal grant from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). It is designed to provide intensive therapeutic treatment services to students and their families who have severe emotional disturbance. The goal is to maintain students in the community and avoid residential placement in mental health, drug or alcohol addiction, and/or Department of Juvenile Justice programs. The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to assist the Family HOPE system of care initiative by providing student data to an evaluation team at the University of South Florida Mental Health Institute (USFMHI) in order to determine the effectiveness of the Family HOPE grant. The School District will provide client's school data, including performance, attendance, discipline, and IEP information to support national and local evaluation efforts. The information, to be shared, will be accomplished in compliance with applicable federal and state statutes and regulations. Family HOPE clients must sign a written consent making it possible for the administrative data to be shared. Aggregated data without individuals' identifiers of the Family HOPE service area may be requested with specified variables by the FMHI evaluation team. Data shared by the USFMHI and the School District shall be used expressly for evaluation purposes. No one will see the student-specific records except the people who work on the study. All measures shall be enforced by the USFMHI to protect individual data records, including storing information in locked file cabinets, data encryption and password protected. This agreement to share individual data on students served by Family HOPE will include the time period from May 1999 through July 2005. Financial Impact: For Additional Information, contact: ANN KILLETS (akillets@palmbeach.k12.fl.us) Janice S. Cover Russell Feldman Attachments (list):
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