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April 3, 2009 (3521376-6416

The Honorable David Obey

Chairman
House Committee on Appropriations
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Washington, DC 20515

Dear Chairman Obey:

I am requesting funding for Orlando Health Orange County Children's Advocacy Center
Programs in fiscal year 2010. The entity to receive funding for this project is Orlando
Health Foundation, located at 3160 Southgate Commerce Blvd., Orlando, FL 32806. The
funding would be used for the Orange County Children's Advocacy Center (CAC), who
in the last year, provided advocacy to 1,649 young victims, siblings and non-offending
caregivers. The program also provided investigation and prosecution services for 3,939
clients and mental health counseling to 926 clients. This program provides more than
28,000 services to clients each year including advocacy, crisis intervention, lethality
assessments, non-offending caregiver support and education, and mental health
counseling. Clients are referred to the onsite Healing Tree program for specialized mental
health treatment. This program implements a family systems model, which treats not only
the child victims but also siblings and non-offending caretakers, thus helping to ensure
that the family is able to recover in a supportive, healthy environment together. This
request is to ensure that the thousands of families that experience child abuse each year in
Orange County, Florida are able to access the services needed to help them recover and
heal. Funding will be used to sustain existing Child Advocates and Therapists and other
costs, as well as expand the program's capacity to provide services with the addition of
two Child Advocates and four Therapists. I celiify that neither I nor my spouse has any
financial interest in this project.

Sincerely,

Conine Brown
Member of Congress

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