Christine Jordan SextonJanuary 18, 2022
7min0
Florida foster families would get a financial boost under the new Senate proposal.
Tag: Senate Children Families and Elder Affairs Committee
Christine Jordan SextonJanuary 18, 2022
Wire ServicesFebruary 16, 2021
2min699
The limit would apply to community-based care lead organizations and managing entities.
Ryan NicolMarch 11, 2019
6min906
The speakers supported a measure to cut down on trafficking.
Ana CeballosNovember 6, 2017
3min618
Republican Sen. Rene Garcia, who chairs the Committee on Children, Families and Elders Affairs, said Monday that legislators need to “stop ignoring” mental health in the state even more so after the massacre that killed more than a dozen churchgoers in Texas. “We can no longer move on as a society until we start addressing […]
Michael MolineFebruary 6, 2017
5min322
A Senate committee got a preview of what a coordinated statewide campaign against human trafficking might look at Monday, when a prosecutor detailed Miami’s “victim-centered” attack on the scourge. Esther Jacobo, who runs the program for State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, said prosecutors, support staff, victim specialists, and investigators within the office and other Miami-Dade […]
James CallApril 16, 2015
5min151
In the tension-filled chambers of a Legislative Session’s final days words matter and poorly chosen ones can stress long-standing relationships. Supporters of the Boys and Girls Club of Florida on Thursday pushed back on remarks Sen. Eleanor Sobel made after Wednesday’s meeting of the Children Families and Elder Affairs Committee. The committee had unanimously approved […]