Annual Report to the Community - Florida Department of Children ...

CARING FOR THE STATE’S CHILDREN
Child and Family Connections, Inc… is the Department of Children
and Families’ contracted Lead Community-based Agency. It provides a
full spectrum of child welfare services to children who enter the foster
care system in Palm Beach County. With a budget of over $33 million
FY08, it continues to serve as the overarching strategy to build
partnerships in the community and improve the quality of outcomes for
the most vulnerable children and families. The Lead Agency contract,
throughout the State system — is the Department’s largest contracted
agency.
Thinking about
`exploring adoption?’
Matching Florida’s children in care
to Floridians who will open their
hearts and homes to them is the
aim of Governor Charlie Crist’s
Explore Adoption Initiative.
Throughout Florida, teenagers,
brothers and sisters, and
medically-needy children are all
looking for families who will
embrace them and experience the
unique rewards of adoption. To
learn more, visit,
www.adoptFlorida.org —
or call, 1-800-981-KIDS.
One Church, One Child of
Florida, Inc. is a national
not for profit licensed child
placing agency and is a
member of National One
Church, One Child. One
Church, One Child operates
in approximately 32 states.
The program was
established in 1980 in
Chicago, Illinois in response
to the critical need to recruit permanent homes for
African American children who over represented
and tend to take longer to adopt than any other
race of children. Although the program's primary
focus and efforts are on recruiting African American
families, it has recruited and continue to recruit for
all children. One Church, One Child of Florida, Inc.
aggressively advocates on behalf of children who
are in the state's foster care system to have a
loving and permanent home. These are the most
vulnerable children for which One Church, One Child
of Florida, inc. encourages families to consider
adopting because every child needs a family that
help them to develop to their fullest potential.
1-800-981– KIDS ... to join the 260 families in Palm Beach
County who opened their hearts and homes to children in
need of foster care.