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North Florida Evaluation &
Treatment Center
A presentation to the Alachua
Board of County Commissioners
North Florida Evaluation and Treatment
Center
Location: 1200 North East 55th Blvd,
Gainesville, Florida
Established: 1976
Fourth largest employee on the East side
of Gainesville
Function
North Florida Evaluation & Treatment
Center (NFETC) is a 216 bed forensic
treatment facility that provides
evaluation and treatment to persons
served who have been committed to the
Dept. of Children & Families by a Circuit
Court as either Incompetent to Proceed
to trial or Not Guilty by reason of
Insanity.
Dept. of Children & Families
NFETC is one of three state treatment
facilities that are operated by the Dept. of
Children & Families.
The other two facilities are Florida State
Hospital (FSH) in Chattahoochee and North
East Florida State Hospital in MacClenny.
Both NFETC & FSH serve forensic clients.
History
At one time, all the state treatment
facilities were owned and operasted by
DCF
But increasingly, the facilities have been
privatized & operated by a vendor
called GEO Care.
Geo Care
Geo Care operates the remaining state
treatment facilities, which include South
Florida State Hospital (Broward county),
South Florida Evaluation & Treatment Center
(Dade county), Treasure Coast Forensic
treatment Center (Martin county), and the
Florida Civil Commitment Center (Desoto
county).
Both South Florida Evaluation & Treatment
Center and the Treasure Coast Forensic
treatment Center serve forensic clients.
Number of Employees at
NFETC
In 2009, NFETC employed 426.5 full
time FTEs
Plus up to 10 OPS part time employees.
Budget
The total budget is $26.293 million.
Salaries comprise $21.715 million
Impact to Alachua County
Of the 426.5 employees, 234
employees live in Alachua County.
Those employees earn $8.14 million
annually.
Minority Impact
Of the 234 employees who are Alachua
county residents, 139 are minorities.
Those employees earn $4.43 million
annually.
The Bottom Line
Conservatively speaking, the economic
impact on North Center Florida by
NFETC is $78.8 million.
The impact on Alachua County from
salaries is at least $24.42 million.
This does not include the economic
benefit to local venders.
GEO Care Expansion
In 2009, GEO Care made a very serious effort
to privatize NEFSH. GEO Care wants to
expand this year.
George C. Zoley, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of GEO, said: “Our already
strong balance sheet has been further
strengthened by our recent refinancing
transactions, and we are now well positioned
to take advantage of the robust demand for
correctional, detention, and residential
treatment beds in our core market segments.”
Comparision of NFETC to the
other Forensic Facilities
In three key metrics, NFETC excelled
Comparative Discharge Rates
Restoration of Competency
Recidivism
Discharge Rates
The next slide compares the Forensic
treatment facilities in their comparative
competent discharge rates.
You will note the trend line for NFETC is
holding steady.
The trend lines for all the other facilities
has gotten worse
GOOD
Forensic MHF Comparative Competent Discharge Rates
0.90
0.80
0.70
0.60
Rate
0.50
0.40
0.30
0.20
0.10
Jan-10
Dec-09
Nov-09
Oct-09
Sep-09
Aug-09
Jul-09
Jun-09
May-09
Apr-09
Mar-09
Feb-09
0.00
F S H 1a DC R a te pe r 100 be d da ys
NF ETC 1a DC R a te pe r 100 be d da ys
S F ETC 1a DC R a te pe r 100 be d da ys
Tre a s ure C o a s t 1a DC R a te pe r 100 be d da ys
NF ETC 1a Dis c ha rge R a te Tre nd
F S H 1a Dis c ha rge R a te Tre nd
S F ETC 1a Dis c ha rge R a te Tre nd
TC ETC 1a Dis c ha rge R a te Tre nd
Competency Restoration
The next slide compares NFETC and the
other forensic treatment facilities in
their restoration of competency
NFETC is the blue bar
Our performance exceeded all of our
rivals in 3 of the last 6 quarters and
second best in the remaining three
quarters
GO O D
State Forensic Facility Restoration of Competency Performance
180.0
160.0
140.0
Average # Days
120.0
100.0
80.0
60.0
40.0
20.0
0.0
Qtr1
Qtr2
Qtr3
Qtr4
FY08/09
FSH (DCF)
NFET C (DCF)
Qtr1
Qtr2
FY09/10
SFET C (GEO)
T reasure Coast (GEO)
Forensic Recidivisim
The next slide compares NFETC with
other forensic treatment facilities for
the last year fiscal years
NFETC’s recidivism rate is the lowest of
the four facilities for this year.
GOOD
Forensic Recidivism Data by Fiscal Year
11.3%
12%
4.8%
1.7%
3.2%
3.0%
4%
2%
6.05%
6.79%
6.3%
7.00%
6%
7.05%
% Recids
8%
5.6%
8.4%
10%
0%
FSHF (DCF)
NFETC (DCF)
FY 07/08
SFETC (GEO)
FY 08/09
TCETC (GEO)
FY 09/10 to date
NOTES:
Definition of Recidivist is someone returning to the forensic system as incompetent to proceed with the same, unresolved
charges. For the purposes of this data page, there is no time limit placed on the time spent in jail.
Given the lack of time limit, this data is dynamic and previous quarterly/yearly data may change as new recidivists are
identified.
Recidivists are credited to discharging facility during the time period they were discharged .
We are requesting
A letter from the Alachua Board of
County Commissioners to the Alachua
legislative delegation to oppose any
effort to privatize NFETC.
Why? 426 jobs & $78.8 million impact
Also in tune with the values of the
Florida Association of Counties
Thank You
We greatly appreciate this opportunity
to present to the County Comission.