As of June 30th, CROSSROADS IS CLOSING!
The State of Florida wishes to close Crossroads on June 30th 2012.
Please pray and send an
e-mail to Governor Scott through Robin Stublen at
this address
robin.stublen@eog.myflorida.com
SAMPLE LETTER
May 30, 2012
Dear State Representative
Stublen:
I am writing to ask why
the Department of Juvenile Justice is considering not renewing the AMI
Kids Crossroads contract in June 2012.
I agree that as citizens of Florida we should expect cuts in the budget
in the future. However,
I do not understand why this very successful program is being subject to
budget cuts.
The facts are:
AMI Kids Crossroads is one of the most successful residential programs
in our state with a 74.8% success rate over the life our program.
The latest statistics demonstrated an 82% success rate!
Numbers used from the OLR Research Report:
http://www.cga.ct.gov
demonstrate that in 2008, it costs $335 thousand dollars to house a
juvenile through adult adjudication, and then $1.4 million (over their
lifetime) for housing an adult offender.
In effect, 1 year of
Crossroads successful graduates will save the State of Florida $22.8
million dollars while they are juveniles and $95 million dollars over
their lifetime.
NOTE: 2009-2010 numbers taken from DJJ website Comprehensive
Accountability report (www.djj.state.fl.us)
As a citizen I wonder since this program saves our state money why the
state does not increase the
budget for AMI Kids Crossroads and duplicate the success of this
program?
Respectfully,
YOUR NAME
YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS
Love and Compassion Ministries has a large team of Christian men and
women who
minister to the youth at Crossroads Wilderness Institution in Punta Gorda, Florida. They take
delicious cookies and other wonderful desserts to feed the young men
while teaching them the Word of God.
Many are coming to know Christ because of what is being done in our
Lord’s name there.
Street Watch Ministry has teamed up with
LCM to better serve these young men. They are now purchasing a pair of
tennis shoes for every young man being released from the institution. We
are also giving them a package of items and information that will help them
to never return to the jail / prison system again.
These young men are our future.
Please pray for them and all LCM’s Youth Team Ministry members
that care enough to reach out to them!
Crossroads Wilderness Institute, Inc.
YOUTH PROGRAM MINISTRY
