Our staff directory on the Contact page plus our Child Visitation Report and Report to the Court eForms have been updated to reflect recent personnel changes.

Please join us in welcoming Annette Riddle to our team as a Child Advocate Manager. In addition, Senior Secretary Lillian Walker has departed. We thank Lillian for her service and wish her the best with her future endeavors.

We regularly encounter families who are in need of living assistance but our resources are extremely limited. When special requests for essentials such as beds, linens, clothing and school supplies come in from families, our staff reach out to the community for help.

If you can assist in fulfilling the below request or have any questions, please get in touch with the request contact. Thank you for your help!

• Status
  Fulfilled

• Request
  Toddler Beds

• Narrative
  This is a general request. Our program has an ongoing need for toddler beds.

• Contact
  Deborah Moore
  deborah.mooregal.fl.gov
  (850) 606-1218
  (850) 294-7545

We regularly host, sponsor and support a variety of events that provide community outreach, increase awareness of our program, help recruit new volunteers, raise funds and furnish training to our volunteer guardians ad litem.

It is vital that all of our volunteers learn the new Optima case management system. The following four sessions of Learning Optima were added to our calendar.

• Learning Optima
  Continuing Education

• Tuesday, October 4, 2016

• Tuesday, October 11, 2016

• Tuesday, October 18, 2016

• Tuesday, October 25, 2016

In addition, the following events were also added to the calendar.

• Educational Advocacy Certification Program
  Continuing Education
  Monday, October 17, 2016

• Educational Surrogate Training
  Continuing Education
  Monday, October 24, 2016

You can also browse and access events on our calendar grid.

Educational Surrogate Training originally scheduled on Monday, September 26, 2016 has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

This one-hour course will be offered again in October. As always, we will announce the date here once it has been added to our calendar.

New Event

We regularly host, sponsor and support a variety of events that provide community outreach, increase awareness of our program, help recruit new volunteers, raise funds and furnish training to our volunteer guardians ad litem. The following event was added to our calendar.

• Let's Talk About Our Crossover Children
  Continuing Education
  Thursday, September 29, 2016

You can also browse and access events on our calendar grid.

Continuing Education

One new library item was added to our Continuing Education resource center.

• My Name is Leon
  A fiction novel by Kit de Waal presenting a heartbreaking story told from the perspective of a young child and featuring his experiences with social services and in foster care after his family falls apart.
  filed under Foster Care, Booklet and Website

Training

A link on the Training page's Phase 1: Independent Study section was updated. The "Video: Understanding Substance Abuse and the Impact on Children Website" link under "Part V" is now pointing to the video's new page.

eForm Updates

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We appreciate your assistance in this matter. Thank you.