Interim DCF Chief Calls On Staff To Refocus; Child Advocates Say It”s A Start
By Sascha Cordner, WSFU Published: Thursday, July 25, 2013 The new interim head of Florida’s child welfare agency is calling on her staff to refocus
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By Sascha Cordner, WSFU Published: Thursday, July 25, 2013 The new interim head of Florida’s child welfare agency is calling on her staff to refocus
By: John Pecatti, Daily Business Review Published: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 Florida warehouses disabled children in nursing homes where they are often kept from
By Margie Menzel, News Service of Florida Published: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 TALLAHASSEE — In the wake of a fifth child death in little more
By Howard M. Talenfeld Published: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 It”s been a deadly time for children under the watch of the Florida Department of
By MARGIE MENZEL, THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Published July 23, 2012 THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE-………Student protesters at Gov. Rick Scott”s office spent Monday talking with
OUR OPINION: Gov. Scott must appoint a new leader committed to keeping kids safe BY MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL, HERALDED@MIAMIHERALD.COM Published: June 22, 2013 Gov. Rick Scott
By: Carol Marbin Miller, The Miami Herald Published: Monday, July 22, 2013 A Homestead man has been charged with shaking his 2-year-old son to
By Carol Marbin Miller and Katia Savchuk, The Miami Herald CMARBIN@MIAMIHERALD.COM Published on Monday, July 22, 2013 Florida healthcare regulators have acted with “deliberate
By Margie Menzel, The News Service of Florida Published: Friday, July 19, 2013 TALLAHASSEE | Esther Jacobo, the new interim secretary of the Florida Department
Published: Friday, July 9, 2013 It’s been a deadly time for children under the watch of the Florida Department of Children & Families and the
By Carol Marbin Miller and Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Published: Thursday July 18, 2013 TALLAHASSEE — David Wilkins, Florida”s top child welfare and
Over 100 supporters attended Florida”s Children First”s Miami Reception on June 12, 2013 honoring child Advocate of the Year Secretary Wansley Walters and recognizing the
By: Margie Menzel, The News Service of Florida Published: Monday, July 15, 2013 TALLAHASSEE – The chairwoman of the Senate committee that oversees the
By: Margie Menzel, News Service of Florida Published: Saturday July 13, 2013 This month, the Florida Department of Children and Families launched a new
By: Carol Marbin Miller and Katia Savchuk, Miami Herald Published: Thursday, July 11, 2013 CMARBIN@MIAMIHERALD.COM The first time a Miami infant went to the