GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 926*

Short Title:  Florence Crittenton Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Odom and Johnson of Wake.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 18, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME.
Whereas, the Florence Crittenton Home is a residential facility for single pregnant, young women throughout North Carolina; and
Whereas, the Florence Crittenton Home has a new residential maternity facility that was designed and constructed in order to expand the present medical program, counseling services, social programs and elementary, junior high, and high school programs, and to establish a therapeutic program to meet the special needs of these young women; and
Whereas, statistically young women who have stayed at the Florence Crittenton Home have a lower rate of welfare dependency, are less likely to drop out of school, and have significantly fewer repeat pregnancies outside of marriage; and
Whereas, the Florence Crittenton Home enables North Carolina to have the largest nonprofit comprehensive maternity and after care program in the United States, to deal with the complex problems associated with adolescent pregnancy; and
Whereas, the Florence Crittenton Services, Inc., needs funds to support its home; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources for Florence Crittenton Services, Inc., the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1989-90 fiscal year to support the Florence Crittenton Home, a residential facility for young women in crises throughout North Carolina.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.