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Home My WebLink AboutM-90-0963TO. ` •+Nffl - O FFICE MEMORANDUM Cesar Odio L:2 :: 49d ROC' City Manager FROM % r 1. t Miller J. Dawkins Vice Mayor Please schedule for the December 6, 1990 a discussion item on the proposed Charlee Program Facility at 2915 Southwest First Avenue. We would like to discuss safety factors for the protection of the youngsters in the neighborhood. cc: Hon. Mayor, Xavier L. Suarez Fellow Commissioners MJD:aw CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA DATE: FILE: SUBJECT. REFERENCES: ENCLOSURES: November 14, 1990 Agenda Item Request for December 6, 1990 38 90- 963 — i t SERGIO RODRIGUEZ, AICP Director • Mr. Steven H. Manne Executive Director The Charlee Program 2000 So. Dixie Hwy., Suite 210 Miami, FL 33133 Re: Proposed Charlee Program Facility at 2915 S.W. 1st Street, Miami Dear Mr. Manne: Itg 14 4Ittmt November 6, 1990 CESAR H. ODIO City Manager I have received and reviewed the copy of your Independent Living Program proposal. I find that there are some major differences between this proposed facility and the one that was approved by the City Commission by Res. 86 -947 at 1640 S. Bayshore Drive, as a foster home. The Charlee Program, as proposed, was to establish a home with six (6) dependent children ranging in age from six (6) to 18 years. Your new proposed program is for children sixteen (16) to nineteen (19) years of age. The Charlee Program was to place six dependent children in a home with a pair of house - parents or foster parents in a normal family atmosphere with everyday interaction that any normal healthy family enjoys. The new proposed facility places these children in separate apartments with a resident counselor team. As is noted in the description of this program, the Independent Living Program is an extension of the present Charlee Care System and removes them from a closely knit family setting. It is therefore my opinion that the proposed Independent Living Resident Program proposal is a Community Based Residential Facility (CBRF). PLANNING, BUILDING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT 275 M.W. 2nd Srreer /P.O. Sox 330708 /Miami, FL 33233 - 0700/(305) 350 -7957 90- 963 The property at 2915 S.W. 1st Avenue, according to•the present City of Miami Zoning Ordinance 11000, as amended, is zoned R -3, Multi- Family Medium Density Residential. For your information, I am enclosing.a copy from the zoning text of the Section listing the Permitted Principal Uses and Conditional Principal Uses and a copy of the recent changes. If you require any further information, please feel free to contact me again. JAG /,fig cc: Sergio Rodriguez Guillermo Olmedillo Joe McManus File V y truly yours, IF 4 SE . GENUARDI, P.E. dministrator II II II I, II II III 1111 90- 963 3 L_LLMINI Permitted Principal Uses: * Community based residential facilities, licensed by FHRS, with from seven (7) to a maximum of fourteen (14) clients (including staff, but not including drug, alcohol or correctional rehabilitation facilities) when located at least 1,200 feet from any existing similar facility, gnd at least 500 feet from any R -1 district measured from the nearest point on the zoning district boundary or from the nearest point of the site of the existing facility to the nearest point of the site of the proposed facility, provided they are registered with the Building and Zoning Department pursuant to Section 934.2. Housebarges are prohibited. R -3 Multi - Family Medium - Density Residential. Conditional Principal Uses * * Same as for R -2 Two Family Residential ands I. Community based residential facilities 11.........J by FM'S with from more than fourteen (14) to a maximum of fifty (50) clients including staff, LYL drug, .VLi.G4 L iV.. L.1 • 1.Y.G a.a ►�y Li.. y J i.t4.6ZU1. LY110 1L1 .LL , ... ... .... L. . 1I.4. .. L' sit of Li.� �.rsatl 1.4.111L, L. 11.- 111.0.,.. L i ,l..2 LI...1 Y iV i4yiJ L4i ..Q •.iL) L1,.. I . il.I i.a.� Y..Vi - ► -� C- r-- L•- ...•.L r :i...itted only by Special Exception with City Commission approval subject to the requirements and limitations of section 934. * * * 90-- 963 The free represents the CHARLEE family network and the people C.0 in it The roots are deep and strong, and they spread and infer - C mingle with each other. Although windswept and bent, gnarled and bare, the tree, like the children we care for, has not been destroyed by the elements, but has teamed to live with them. The family Care Program sponsored by The Merin roger Foundation The CHARLEE Program ^> 2000 So. Dixie Hwy, State-210 Miami, Florida 33133 Telephone: (05) 856.9828 CHARLES of Dade County CHARLEE Children Have All Rights: Legal, Educational, Emotional The CHARLEE Program The Menninger Foundation Family Care Program called CHARLEE— an acronym for Children Have All Rights: Legal, Educational, Emotional — sponsors a nationwide network of family care homes for abused and neglected, dependent children. The CHARLEE network is made up of affiliated nonprofit corporations throughout the country that establish family care homes in their own communities. The Menninger Foundation is a leader in the areas of psychiatric treatment, education, research and pre- vention. For almost two decades, Menninger staff members have been creating alternative care systems for children who have become society's outcasts. CHARLEE is an outgrowth of these efforts. A flagrant miscarriage of justice There exists in our country today a problem that has been called the most flagrant miscarriage of justice in our nation's history. It involves more than one million children a year who are warehoused in Institutions or in woefully Inadequate juvenile facilities. On any given day, well over a thousand children are sentenced to reform schools, detention centers, local jails, mental institutions or any number of other facilities willing to provide food and shelter, along with a promise to isolate them from the "decent" folks in the community. More than half of these children are not even accused of a crime; often their only "crime" is that they have no one to care for them. Most of these children are drawn into the child care system because they have been beaten or sexually abused or abandoned —turned loose, without phys- ical or emotional resources, in a world that doesn't want them. The "lucky" ones, the ones who are not immediately institutionalized, usually are bounced around in a foster care system that seldom works. Professionals in the field estimate that of the more than one million incarcerated children, as many as ninety - five percent are capable of functioning in neighbor- hood environments. Nevertheless, the atrocity con- tinues. The CHARLEE Program is a concerted effort to deal with this dilemma on a nationwide level. .Dade County Family Care Model In 1982 CHARLEE of Dade County was founded by a coalition of organizations which included the Epis- copal Diocese of Southeast Florida, the Junior League of Miami and the National Council of Jewish Women (Greater Miami Section). CHARLEE was initiated to provide Tong -term family -care homes for dependent children, long recognized as a critical need in Dade County. The CHARLEE model is not based on clinical treat- ment or on institutional correction, but rather on restoring patterns of everyday interaction that any nor- mal, healthy family enjoys. The philosophy of CHARLEE is based on positives. Appropriate behavior is rewarded and each child is taught the importance of participating and being part of a family group. Each home has six children ranging in age up to eigh- teen years. The homes are established in residential neighborhoods. The children attend the local schools, are encouraged to participate in school activities and make friends with the neighborhood kids. For many of these children, it is the first time they have ever felt they really belonged. Central to the model are the carefully chosen, profes- sionally trained family -care parents who are supported by a staff that includes a director, a school coordinator, a social worker, a psychologist and others as needed. The family care parents set the stage for growth by providing the love, the discipline, the understanding and the acceptance that each child needs. Menninger Foundation provides ongoing professional training for family care parents and support staff. CHARLEE has five family-care homes currently in operation with a goal of an Independent Living Program for older adolescents by fall'of 1990. As a result of the success of the Dade County Pilot Project, CHARLEE has been imple- mented in Broward and Orange /Seminole Counties. Funding CHARLEE opened its first home in Dade County in 1983. Initial costs, including substantial down pay- ments on the homes, furnishings and purchase of a family car, are provided through donations by civic organizations, foundations, corporations and other interested citizens. The cost of maintaining the program is borne by the State through a per diem stipend for each child participating in the program. The CHARLEE home is based on providing patterns of everyday interaction that any normal, healthy family enjoys. CHARLEE Needs You! Children DO have all rights and I want to help. ❑ Please bill me for $ ❑ Enclosed is my TAX DEDUCTIBLE contribution for Name and/or Organization Address City State Zip Phone ( ) Checks payable to: CHARLEE of Dade County, Inc. For further information write or call: The CHARLEE Program 2000 So. Dixie Hwy, Suite 210 Miami, Florida 33133 Telephone: (305) 856 -9828