The following documents are attachments to the 2008 Dept of ...

3. Foster Care: Improve the stability of children in foster care.(a) Reduce the number of placement settings that a child will have in foster care.(b) Decrease the number of schools that a child in foster care attends.4. Foster Care: Improve key aspects of child well-being and safety in the foster caresystem.(a) Engage the family, especially the father, in determining a child’s well-being.(b) Improve the use of professional assessment information case plans and providingservices.(c) Increase a child’s access to services focusing on pre-pay mental health plans.(d) Stabilize the workforce in child welfare.(e) Improve in-service training.5. Adoptions: Adopt a minimum of 2,751 children.(a) Support the Governor’s Office of Adoption and Child Abuse Protection’s initiativesencouraging the adoption of Florida’s children in foster care and supporting a statewidepublic service campaign to let all Floridians know the value of adoption and how it canpromote a culture of life in our state.(b) Increase adoptions of African-American children by enhancing the One Church OneChild initiative.6. Child Safety: Reduce the number of child deaths in Florida.(a) In coordination with the Department of Health and other organizations, educate thepublic to the dangers of the most likely causes of child deaths.(b) In coordination with the Department of Health and other organizations, educatemandatory reporters to the behaviors associated with perpetrators of child abuse.7. Child Safety: Increase the use of technology to improve child safety.8. Child Safety: Implement the approved recommendations from the Child ProtectionTask Force and Courtney Clark Quality Assurance Reports.6 Updated January 17, 2008