Jesse SchecknerApril 12, 2022
7min0
‘This state stands committed to the proposition that every life counts.’
Tag: foster children
Jesse SchecknerApril 12, 2022
Daniel Figueroa IVNovember 30, 2021
4min1137
The bill would create a 'Foster Children's Bill of Rights' by compiling existing laws into one statute.
Renzo DowneyMarch 29, 2021
4min1552
The legislation is a Senate President Wilton Simpson priority.
Ryan NicolOctober 19, 2020
5min760
A USA TODAY investigation found hundreds of children may have been subject to abuse from foster families.
Florence SnyderApril 21, 2017
5min303
In the wake of two suicides of teenage foster children in their “care,” the “leadership team” of Miami’s “community-based care” agency took their marbles and accrued benefits and went home. Judging from their whiny, self-involved letters of resignation, the agency’s name — Our Kids — refers to the six-figure people running the place, and not […]
A.G. GancarskiNovember 29, 2016
2min208
In 2014, the Florida Legislature enacted a pilot program designed to make it easier for foster children to get driver’s licenses and auto insurance. In 2017, Sen. Aaron Bean seeks to make that program permanent, via Senate Bill 60, to ensure children in “out-of-home care” permanently have a way to secure driver’s licenses and defray the […]
Drew WilsonNovember 25, 2015
2min232
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 […]
Guest AuthorApril 10, 2015
4min386
Today in Florida, more than 600 children woke up without a permanent home to call their own. Sadly, these vulnerable children are revolving through a broken foster system that leaves far too many without hope for a happy life or successful future. Without the endless love of my adoptive parents, I could have been among […]