Tag: Department of Children and Families

Jim RosicaApril 28, 2016
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An internal review by the Department of Children and Families depicts a still dysfunctional agency, with workers feeling “unsupported,” “overwhelmed,” and “defeated.” The 133-page report, commissioned by DCF Secretary Mike Carroll, was released Thursday afternoon to FloridaPolitics.com in response to a public records request. It has been referred to informally in DCF circles as the “Sanford Report” after […]

Drew WilsonFebruary 23, 2016
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Former Department of Children and Families Secretary Lucy Hadi died Monday in Tallahassee, the department said Tuesday. She was head of DCF from 2004 to 2006. Hadi, 70, had a long career at DCF and its precursor institution, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. She started at HRS in 1971 after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from […]

Staff ReportsJanuary 14, 2016
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The Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs, chaired by Hollywood Democratic Sen. Eleanor Sobel, on Thursday unanimously passed Senate Bill 12, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, sponsored by Hialeah Republican Sen. Rene Garcia to improve the delivery of mental health and substance abuse services. “Our current system of behavioral health services is fragmented […]

Drew WilsonNovember 25, 2015
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Nearly 1,400 Florida children in foster care will spend Thanksgiving with their families and loved ones as part of a Department of Children and Families initiative. The “Home for the Holidays” initiative, announced by DCF Secretary Mike Carroll Wednesday, will reunite 1,025 children with siblings, parents and extended family for Thanksgiving. “We often take for […]

Jim RosicaOctober 8, 2015
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Jessica Sims will become the Department of Children and Families’ new communications director, starting  Monday, Secretary Mike Carroll said in a news release Thursday. “We are excited to bring Jessica on board to lead the statewide efforts of collaboration, partnership and prevention with our community and media partners,” Carroll said in a prepared statement. “Our mission […]

Jim RosicaOctober 2, 2015
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The Florida Department of Children and Families and private companies it contracts with to oversee the state’s child-welfare system agreed to pay $750,000 to head off any lawsuits resulting from a Gilchrist County man who killed his daughter and his six grandchildren. Documents dealing with the settlement, one of which appeared hastily hand-written during a […]

Drew WilsonSeptember 8, 2015
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In a flurry of political activity, several no-party-affiliated candidates filed in South Florida House and Senate seats during the long holiday weekend. Each candidate is associated with a group pushing to reform the Department of Children and Families and the state’s family court system. Mercedes Cristian, the founder of Fundación Lideres de Paz, an organization that […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 3, 2015
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A top state child-protection official who reportedly had an “frat house”-management style, disparaging and berating underlings and referring to some as “ho’s,” has quit his job. David Abramowitz was director of the Northeast Florida region for the Department of Children and Families. He turned in his resignation Wednesday, as first reported by First Coast News. DCF Press Secretary Michelle Glady […]


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