As DCF Considers Changes, Former Foster Youth Speak Out
By REGAN MCCARTHY The Department of Children and Families’ recent troubles took center stage at the group’s Child Protection Summit this week in Orlando. The event
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By REGAN MCCARTHY The Department of Children and Families’ recent troubles took center stage at the group’s Child Protection Summit this week in Orlando. The event
Amid lawsuits and negative publicity, facilities accused of delivering inadequate care to sickly children are shutting down their pediatric units. ********************************* BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER cmarbin@MiamiHerald.com
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Florida”s Children”s First Executive Director Christina Spudeas, Florida Youth Shine Member Brandon Burke and Forever Family Founder and CEO, Gia Tutalo-Mote talk with Host Joe
By NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Credit Emily Michot / Miami Herald STAFF Department of Children and Families interim Secretary Esther Jacobo (middle, speaking) has previously
By: Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald Published: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 Miami-Dade County”s entire child welfare bench presided over a virtually unprecedented hearing Tuesday
By: Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch, Miami Herald Published: Sunday, August 18, 2013 On the day before she died, Jewel Re”nee Howard sat
By: Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch, Miami Herald Published: Sunday August 18, 2013 Aliyah Marie Branum spent much of her two years
In January, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri owned up to his office””s failures after a 5-year-old Clearwater girl died days after investigators pulled her
by: Margie Menzel News Service of Florida Published: August 9, 2013 As the state”s child welfare system rolls out what it callss a “transformation” to
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A young man who had a tough life growing up learned to not let his past control his future. Today, he works
When state child welfare administrators first spoke with Cierrah Raphael in early 2013, they reported she was a 21-year-old prostitute and drug user who had
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER, The Miami Herald Published: Monday, July 29 2013 Summer Stiles had no idea her toddler son had been missing for much
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER CMARBIN@MIAMIHERALD.COM Like so many before her, Esther Jacobo’s ascension to the top of Florida’s long-troubled child welfare agency was forged in