Category: News & Notes
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SFGN.com: Fort Lauderdale Store Benefits LGBT Teens Transitioning out of Foster Care
Funky Flamingo 2nds Resale Shop in Fort Lauderdale will be celebrating its one-year anniversary with a sale called Christmas in the Tropics. On the surface, Funky Flamingo 2nds may look like just another resale shop. … Yet, Funky Flamingo 2nds stands out in more significant ways. All of the proceeds at Funky Flamingo 2nds go to benefit H.O.M.E.S., Inc., an organization that focuses on creating self-sufficiency and…
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New Money, New Fights in Prostitution Advocacy
First, In battle against teen prostitution, a fight over funds. And then Service group sues DCF, alleging smear campaign.
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Herald: Gay foster child allegedly mocked, harassed, ignored
When leaders of a religious school became suspicious that one of their charges was gay, he was confronted and told to fess up: Is it true or is it false? When the boy said he was indeed gay, the head of his foster care shelter then purportedly drove him to an isolated location, wept uncontrollably…
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#dcfsummit underway today
Today is the first day of the Florida Dependency Summit, which last year was the “Pathway to Independence Summit,” and this year is the “Child Protection Summit.” Keep at that name guys, I’m sure something will stick eventually. I can’t be there this year, which brings me much sadness. Hopefully people will Tweet the event…
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Thoughts on FINR: Let’s Bring Them Home
By this time the allegations of abuse at the Florida Institute of Neurologic Rehabilitation should be well known to anyone reading this blog. If not, read here and here. Bloomberg somehow got the scoop on the locals and reported years of criminal, civil, and regulatory investigations of the place, including deaths, two pending criminal charges,…
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GAL Program Issues New Standards of Operations
This month the Florida Guardian ad Litem Program issued an updated set of program standards. The standards cover new areas such as the transportation of children, and redefine old areas like the relationship between the volunteer GAL, the supervisor, and the program attorney–now called the volunteer child advocate (VCA), the child advocacy coordinator (CAC), and…
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Did Wilkins Try to Disband ILSAC?
That’s certainly word on the street. If you know details, feel free to pass them along.
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Miami-Dade Appointed Counsel Fees in Dependency and TPR
In the midst of the very public debate and discussion over the Limited Registry for court appointed counsel, one of my three readers has forwarded this records request from the JAC: the 2010-11, 2011-12 fees paid to dependency attorneys in Miami-Dade County (including dependency, TPR, and appeals). I have redacted the names and replaced them…
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Public listing of state employee salaries
Search for any Florida state employee’s salary here. It doesn’t include the myriad of government folks who get paid by counties, grants, private organizations, etc. (Note: GAL Program salaries are lumped under the JAC.)