Category: News & Notes
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Mike Carroll, new DCF Secretary, speaking at National QPI Conference in 2012
“If you’re in the business of child welfare and you’re not mission driven, this thing doesn’t work.”
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Florida House passes bill authorizing attorneys for special needs children
This is a first in Florida. The corresponding Senate bill just cleared Appropriations. CS/CS/HB 561, 1st Eng. (2014) Attorneys For Dependent Children with Special Needs http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0561 HOUSE – Read 3rd time HOUSE – Amendment(s) adopted HOUSE – CS passed as amended; YEAS 118 NAYS 0
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Why we need many voices in the law
Let’s take a moment: And race matters for reasons that really are only skin deep, that cannot be discussed any other way, and that cannot be wished away. Race matters to a young man’s view of society when he spends his teenage years watching others tense up as he passes, no matter the neighborhood where he grew…
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Florida judge says schools probably have the right to decide which students have to suffer violence quietly
In Lake County, Florida, a young girl at Carver Middle School wanted to start a Gay-Straight Alliance in order to combat bullying and other abuses she saw at her school. The administration refused her request, stating that the group was not related to the curriculum despite the fact that other groups were approved that were…
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Miami Herald: Mom gets children; DCF gets skewered
Under Chapter 39, the judicial and executive branches exercise concurrent jurisdiction over the welfare of foster children who have been placed in DCF’s custody. See Simms v. State Dep’t of Health and Rehab. Servs., 641 So.2d 957 (Fla. 3d DCA), review denied, 649 So.2d 870 (Fla.1994). Dep’t of Children & Family Services v. Interest of…
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Miami LGBTQ homeless youth may finally have somewhere safe to go
A comprehensive queer youth homelessness-fighting initiative? Yes please. Citrus will handle the housing. Pridelines and the Alliance for GLBTQ Youth will provide programming and training support. This will cover a huge need in South Florida: “Our community needs assessment reported that an astonishing 34% of youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or who question…
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DCF Preparing to Create Independent Living Program Rules
DCF issued a Notice of Rulemaking for the new Independent Living Program. The notice gives us an idea of how they’ll organize the new administrative code. As of now, the new code sections are: 65C-41.001 Definitions 65C-41.002 Youth Program Participation Requirements 65C-41.003 Application Procedures for Initial Participation and Re-entry 65C-41.004 Case Management Services For Young…
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Attorney-Client Privilege Case Set for Oral Argument, Again
Once again, R.L-R., the attorney-client privilege case, is set for oral argument on June 10, 2013 at 10:30 in the Third DCA. If you recall, last time the youth ran away and only his attorney knew where he was. The youth refused to tell or communicate with anyone else. DCF moved to compel the attorney…