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FLORIDA'S FIVE-YEAR PLAN

LOCAL INFORMATION

In July 2010, the State of Florida launched the Florida Child Abuse Prevention and Permanency Plan: July 2010 – June 2015.

Executive Summary

The Executive Summary gives a brief introduction to the five-year plan. At a glance, this summary provides the 12 strategies and 40 objectives within the plan, the agency and/or organization that will be leading the effort, and the workgroups that will be working on their portion of the five-year plan.

Executive Summary - 356 KB

Prevention and Permanency Plan

In July 2010 the Florida Child Abuse Prevention and Permanency Plan: July 2010 – June 2015. The central focus of this plan is to build resilience in all of Florida’s families and communities in order to equip them to better care for and nurture their children. In accordance with the State law (§39.001, Florida Statutes), this five-year prevention and permanency plan provides for the prevention of child abuse, abandonment and neglect; promotion of adoption; and for the support of adoptive families.

Now, more than ever, Florida should take a concerted look at strategies that will help families become resilient when faced with multiple stressors due to economic and other challenges that are predicted. This plan seeks to build the capacity for Floridians to prevent child maltreatment before it ever occurs. To do this, Florida’s five-year child maltreatment prevention strategies focus on building resilience in Florida families. The five-year promotion of adoption strategies focus on ensuring that Florida families best suited to support the children and youth served in the child welfare system adopt these children and youth in a timely manner. Florida’s five-year adoption support strategies focus on ensuring that Florida families adopting children and youth from the child welfare system receive the supports necessary to provide loving and permanent homes that help these children heal from their trauma histories.

Child Abuse Prevention and Permanency Plan (State five-year plan) - 13 MB
Appendices A – H (State Plan Support Materials) - 1.6 MB
Appendix I, Volume 1 (Local Circuit Plans) - 73 MB
Appendix I, Volume 2 - 28 MB
Appendix I, Volume 3 - 37 MB
Appendix I, Volume 4 - 83 MB

Governor’s Office of Adoption and Child Protection

Below is a link to the Governor’s Office of Adoption and Child Protection’s 2011 Annual Report.

2011 Annual Report - 3.6 MB