The Florida Legislature’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
Report No. 01-08
February 2001

Reviewed by Loree Cook-Daniels

As part of its oversight responsibility, the Florida State Legislature created OPPAGA – the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability – to analyze state programs. One such report was issued in 2001 on that state’s adult services program, including Adult Protective Services (APS).

Besides its potential interest as one of only a handful of state APS “accountability” studies, the report includes interesting data such as how Florida’s APS is funded (in FY 1999-2000 the program received $16 million from the state general revenue fund, almost $3 million from the administrative trust fund, about $60,000 from the tobacco settlement trust fund, and nearly $5 million from SSBG).

The report also found that elder abuse victims served by APS were revictimized within six months of case closure only 2.4% of the time, and that “clients who receive services are less likely to be re-victimized than clients who do not need services and much less likely to be re-victimized than clients…who specifically decline to receive needed services.”

The report is available online at www.oppaga.state.fl.us/monitor/reports/health/r01-08s.html, or you can contact:

Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
111 West Madison
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1475
e-mail address: oppaga@mail.oppaga.state.fl.us
(800) 531-2477 (phone)
(850) 487-3804 (fax)