Foster Florida
fosterflorida@gmail.com https://fosterflorida.org/ Foster Florida began in November of 2015 on Orphan Sunday fueled by a passion to bring awareness to our community about the need for strong families to step into foster care, and the need for them to be supported. We held our first official meeting on December 6, 2015 at the Family Church in Gainesville. Over fifty people showed up expressing a desire to step into foster care or a desire to support foster families. We realized people wanted to help but didn’t know how to take the next steps to saying yes. From here, Foster Florida was born. Click here to see if there is a Foster Florida chapter in your area.
Guardian Ad Litem – Circuit 13
Tabitha Lambert, Circuit Director Thirteenth Judicial Circuit 700 East Twiggs Street, Suite 750 Tampa, FL 33602 Hillsborough 813-272-5110 http://www.galtampa.org
Guardian Ad Litem – Circuit 6
Mariela Ollsen, Circuit Director Sixth Judicial Circuit 14250 49th Street, Suite 4000 Clearwater, Florida 33762 Pasco, Pinellas 727-464-6528 www.herotoachild.org
Children’s Legal Services – Circuit 13 (Attorney General)
Stephanie Bergen Managing Attorney / Assistant Attorney General Office of the Attorney General 501 E. Kennedy Boulevard Suite 1100 Tampa, FL 33602 Office: (813) 272-0407 E-mail: Stephanie_Bergen@myfloridalegal.com
Children’s Legal Services – Circuit 6 (State Attorney)
Karen Hill Managing Attorney / Assistant State Attorney Office of Bernie McCabe, State Attorney P.O. Box 5028 Clearwater, Fl 33758 Office: (727) 464-6221
Childrens Network of Hillsborough
Community Based Care Lead Agency for Judicial Circuit 13, Hillsborough County. 9393 N. Fl. Ave., Suite #1100, Tampa, FL 33612, (813) 225-1105 childrensnetworkhillsborough.org
Family Support Services (C6)
Community Based Care Lead Agency for Pasco and Pinellas counties. (Serving all of Judicial Circuit 6.) FSS also operates in Circuit 4 as the CBC for Duval (Jacksonville) and Nassau counties. Contacts: TBD 8550 Ulmerton Rd., Suite 130, Largo, FL 33771, (727) 456-0600 https://fssc6.org/
Hillsborough County Family Partnership Alliance
Meets first Saturday of each month Kimberly Hernandez, President 813.209.0504 kimh@hcfpa.org www.hcfpa.org (This is the Foster & Adoptive Parent Association for Hillsborough, they no longer have that in their name as they have expanded their scope.)
Pinellas County Foster & Adoptive Parent Association
7 p.m. On zoom and in person (contact for location info.) 2023 Board Stacey Parker, President, president@pcfapa.org Colleen Comey, Vice President, vp@pcfapa.org Melissa Duclos, Secretary, secretary@pcfapa.org Kathryn Reynolds, Treasurer, treasurer@pcfapa.org Derek Lang, Membership, membership@pcfapa.org Kristin Woodward, Sergeant at Arms, SAA@pcfapa.org
Pasco County Foster Adoptive Parent Association
Jackey Morgan-Haynes, President www.pascofapa.com www.facebook.com/groups/PascoFAPA/ secretary@pascofapa.com Pasco FAPA meets via Zoom, and in person once per quarter at Generations Christian Church at 1540 Little Rd, Trinity, FL 34655. Please email for our schedule and information.