GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 1804

Short Title:  Family to Family Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Hayes; Berry, Brawley, Brubaker, Burton, Daughtry, Edwards, Esposito, Gardner, Hensley, Holmes, H. Hunter, Joye, McCombs, Michaux, Mitchell, Russell, Sexton, Weatherly, Wilkins, Wilson, and Wright.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 30, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT AND REPLICATE PROJECT L.I.F.T. (LOCAL INDIVIDUALS FINDING THEMSELVES), TO EFFECT BOTH SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM CRIME PREVENTION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, the sum of seven hundred twenty thousand dollars ($720,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to support and replicate Project L.I.F.T. (Local Individuals Finding Themselves), of Concord, North Carolina.  Project L.I.F.T. works through families helping other families deal with crime, substance abuse, and other issues facing parents and their children.  It targets families in Concord's public housing communities to provide positive living skills, crime prevention activities, nutrition advice, higher education, substance abuse counselling, and healthy lifestyle activities.  Project L.I.F.T. is a vital measure in preventing crime and violence.
The Division of Mental Health shall make funds available to nine communities, selected on the basis of a Request for Proposal process.  Each of the nine selected communities shall receive eighty thousand dollars ($80,000).  Project L.I.F.T., of Concord, North Carolina, has agreed to assist the Division in developing the Request for Proposal process and to assist the selected communities to replicate the L.I.F.T. initiatives by providing training and technical assistance.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.