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CHILDREN'S SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE The objective of the Children's Services Advisory Committee, working as an advisory committee to the Indian River County Board of Commissioners, is to give Indian River County children, age 0-17, the opportunity to grow up as "Healthy Children in a Healthy Community." The term "healthy" encompasses the socioeconomic, physical, environmental, educational and behavioral aspects of a child's life. It is also the objective to recommend a unified system of planning and delivery, within which children's needs can be identified, targeted, evaluated and addressed by the Children's Services Advisory Committee, through the Board of County Commissioners. MISSION The mission of the Children's Services Advisory Committee is to facilitate and coordinate the planning and development of an effective and collaborative health and human services delivery system to meet the needs of children of Indian River County. The Children's Services Advisory Committee strongly supports cultural diversity and encourages its funded programs to demonstrate the inclusion of all children and families in program development and implementation. VISION The efforts of the Children's Services Advisory Committee will ensure the development of a shared vision for the health and human services delivery system in Indian River County, enabling funding sources and providers to define the performance of their roles in a dynamically changing environment. HISTORY County Ordinance #99-01 updated the Children's Services Advisory Committee on January 19, 1999. The ordinance was patterned after FL125.901, which seeks to provide an organized framework for developmental, treatment and rehabilitative services for children. FUNDING October 1, 2015 -September 30, 2016 was the fiscal year that the Board of County Commissioners has authorized funding. The amount of funding for 2015-16 was $851,965. The program is funded through a payment of (up to) 0.125 mil of Ad Valorem Property Taxes. ACCOUNTABILITY The Children's Services Advisory Committee is an advisory committee that is accountable to, and functions under, the direction of, Indian River County Board of County Commissioners through the Department of Human Services. The Committee is comprised of a voluntary body, appointed by the Board of County Commissioners, which carefully monitors program costs, to provide maximum benefit from taxpayers' dollars with minimal overhead costs. Also, the Committee is authorized to seek grants from state and federal agencies, and accept donations from public and private sources. 4 P161