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Category Archives: Advocacy
We Agree: Put Your (Membership) Money Where Your Advocacy Is
Much thanks to our friends @ End Childhood Hunger for allowing us to reprint from their blog site a recent post on the membership campaign at the Children’s Movement of Florida: We’ve written about them a lot, but this is … Continue reading
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State Attorney Calls For Funding “Child Protection Teams”
Lawson Lamar, the State Attorney in the Ninth Judicial Circuit (Orlando) penned a compelling Letter to the Editor that was published in the Orlando Sentinel on April 3, 2011. In his letter, he raised a little-known fact (at least to … Continue reading
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“Raise Revenue, Save Services”
Florida Children’s Campaign has highlighted a number of ways to increase the state’s revenue by almost 3.5 billion dollars – revenue that, if made available, could help meet the needs of Floridians without cutting vital services to children like maternal … Continue reading
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Florida’s Children First Calls For Reform Of Florida’s Child Welfare System
With four children dead and two seriously injured since January 2011 while under the so-called “protection” of the Florida Department of Children and Families, Florida’s Children First has issued a well-researched and detailed position paper addressing needed reforms. The top … Continue reading
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Child Abuse Reports Rise In South Florida
As reported by the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, South Florida has seen a rise in child-abuse cases and officials are calling for more awareness after a year in which the state’s social service agency has investigated some gruesome cases of … Continue reading
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Florida’s “Invisible” Foster Children
Did you know that kids in foster care can’t be “tagged” or publicly identified in things like Facebook photos, or have their pictures published in the newspaper – even for doing good deeds or great things? Crazy? Yes. Unfair? You … Continue reading
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St. Petersburg Times: We’re Failing Our Kids
In a special opinion piece that recently ran in the St Petersburg Times, James P. McHale of the University of South Florida chronicles a compelling report, entitled “Investing in Florida’s Children: Good Policy, Smart Economics,” that was assembled by researchers at … Continue reading
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Forever Family Receives National Recognition
Forever Family, the South Florida nonprofit that utilizes television segments and on-air media partnerships and promotions to create awareness about children and teens in the foster care system, has been presented with the Adoption Excellence Award by the United States Department of … Continue reading
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Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Via the Florida Children’s Campaign weekly Newsletter, linking to an article that originally appeared in the Florida Times-Union, the full version of which can be found here. Thanks! Children who witness violent and abusive behavior in their homes are the … Continue reading
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Stopp The Organized Pill Pushers!
Picture a Nation without Pill Mills. Unimaginable damage has been done in Florida to families and children who have been victims of the despicable practices of these profit-at-all-cost facilities (There are more Pain Clinics in Broward County that McDonald’s outlets). … Continue reading
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