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EXHIBIT A CHILDREN'S SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE 2022-23 GRANT APPLICATION Agency Name: Sunshine Rehabilitation Center of Indian River County, Inc dba Sunshine Physical Therapy Clinic Address: 1705 17th Avenue, Vero Beach, FL, 32960, US Executive Director: Mary Silva Email: executivedirector@sunshineptc.org Phone: (772) 562-6877 Program Director: Melissa Perez Email: pediatrics.supervisor@sunshineptc.org Phone: (772) 562-6877 Program(s) Name: Sunshine Kids Support Fund — Early Therapy Intervention Focus Area(s): Quality Academic Remediation and Enrichment PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Through the generosity of our community, we are able to provide free or partial free services to children one to three times a week who need therapeutic services as recommended by their physician but who lack the financial resources or insurance coverage. For example, a patient may have insurance coverage but it excludes therapy services or the patient may have an exorbitant high deductible or high co -pay which then limits their participation in the essential therapy needed to reach therapeutic goals to remain independent or reach important milestones. Your support helps to offset our costs of providing these services that covers staff salaries and Clinic overhead, allowing these children to access care needed to reach developmental milestones as recommended by the child's physician and the evaluating therapist. We require a referral from a physician's office prior to seeing a child. All therapeutic services will be provided at our facility on a one-on-one basis, Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm. Services include: physical, occupational and speech-language therapies. Therapy is always one-on-one and generally is twice a week for one hour for each child. The desired outcome of each child's therapeutic intervention is individualized and initially determined by the therapist at evaluation with approval and consensus from the child's physician. Therapeutic goals are adjusted as the child attains previous goals. Parental involvement is required, as the performance of home exercise programs is crucial to success. Therapy helps the child to participate in age-appropriate and meaningful activities with families and other children, helping them to become socially integrated and more productive members of society. All children are re -assessed by the attending therapist at regular intervals. Medicaid requires this re- assessment every sixty days and evaluation outcome measurements are generally done every 180 days per industry standards. Once a patient has completed their therapy and is ready for discharge, a summary of goals met is created and forwarded to the referring Physician and home exercise programs are provided to the patient's family as well as advice on materials or supplies that may be beneficial to the child's continued success. The projected number of unduplicated children to be served is one hundred eighty (180).