Welcome to a new direction in Foster Care in Florida! The Florida Department of Children and Families and its community-based partner, Partnership for Strong Families, are working to redesign the foster care system in North Central Florida by helping strengthen families through
strength based, family centered care that helps divert children from foster care and reduces timelines to permanency. Please check this site regularly to learn about our progress.
Watch the One World documentary on Foster Care Redesign, featuring The Library Partnership:
Listen to the Florida Forum Interview with DCF Administrator for Circuits 3 and 8
Ester Tibbs and Partnership for Strong Families CEO Shawn Salamida
06/16/09Neighborhood Resource Center Opens
Neighborhood facility helps families, offers library, programs for children
read the Gainesville Sun article...
04/01/09April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
The Winds of Change campaign promotes involvement in the prevention of child
abuse and neglect through a better understanding of child development,
improved parenting and community action. Learn more...
03/12/09New center hopes to fight for family unity
When the Neighborhood Resource Center opens later this spring, east Gainesville parents will have a place to obtain information and services designed to strengthen their families.
The goal of the center - a 7,500-square-foot facility at the Northgate Shopping Plaza, 1130 NE 16th Ave. - is to keep families together and ultimately decrease the number of children who enter the foster care system...
Read the entire Gainesville Sun article
03/01/09Neighborhood Resource Center
We're going to be opening a Neighborhood Resource Center in the very near future.
Read all about it here
