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.

Santa Rosa County Kinship Care Foster Adoptive Parent Association Support Group (KC-FAPA)

Gerald L. Waters, Sr. President 1910 Navarre School Road Unit 5884 Navarre, Florida 32566 Phone (850) 748.2349 kcfapasantarosa@gmail.com www.kcfapasantarosa.org Supporting Kinship, Foster and Adoptive Families in Circuit One: Family First Network

Guardian Ad Litem – Circuit 1

Bryan Carter, Circuit Director First Judicial Circuit 1800 West St. Mary Ave. Box 3 Pensacola, FL 32501 Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton 850-595-3728

Children’s Legal Services – Circuit 1 (DCF)

Elizabeth (Betsy) Miller, Managing Attorney 160 Governmental Center, Suite 711 Pensacola, FL 32502 Office: (850) 626-3053/(850) 595-8230 Cell: (850) 390-1678 E-mail: Elizabeth_Miller@dcf.state.fl.us

Northwest Florida Health Network

Community Based Care Lead Agency for Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties. (All of Judicial Circuits 1, 2 and 14) Contact: Mike Watkins, CEO 525 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Tallahassee, FL 32301 850-410-1020 https://nwfhealth.org