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- EIN 03-0423150
- (352) 244-1500
- 5950 Nw 1st Pl Ste A Gainesville FL 32607 USA
- www.pfsf.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health, Health Support
Mission: To enhance the community's ability to protect and nurture children by building, maintaining and constantly improving a network of family support services.
Target demographics: children and families
Geographic areas served: 13 counties in North Central Florida
Programs: -Case management: involves the identification, linkage, coordination and monitoring of all child protection services for the child and family.
-Manage care currently for 1,206 children who are in an out-of-home placement or in-home living arrangement and have a primary assignment to Partnership for Strong Families.
-Adoption: to establish permanency for children to enable them to grow and develop to their fullest potential. To meet this goal, potential adoptive families are recruited for children whose parent's rights have been terminated, permanently committing the children to the department. Following adoption placement, the agency supervises the child's adoptive placement a minimum of 90 days before the adoption can be finalized. Post-placement supervision is not required if the child has resided in the home in foster care status for 90 or more days.
-Out-of-home care: consists of protection services delivered to a child who has been placed outside the home of the biological parent or legal guardian. This includes emergency shelter, foster care, relative, or non-relative placement. This is a subset of the total number of clients in statement one above. Currently serve over 700 youth.