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Broward Days
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Broward Days is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan group advocating for the diverse needs and concerns of Broward County, Florida during an annual local legislative issues forum for the state. |
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Early Learning Coalition of Broward County
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All children in Broward County will enter kindergarten socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively and behaviorally ready to learn and families will have comprehensive early care and education services readily available to them in order to be stable and strong. |
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First Call for Help of Broward
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Your 24-hour free, confidential telephone Helpline for crisis/suicide counseling, empathetic listening and community information and referrals for health and human service resources in Broward County, Florida |
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Kinship Information Network
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K.I.N. is a Broward based group dedicated to those grandparents and other relative caregivers who are raising their grandchildren, their nieces or nephews either by court order or voluntarily. |
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Literacy Coalition of Broward
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The Literacy Coalition of Broward County is a group of educators, business leaders, literacy providers, volunteers and advocates who work together to meet their mission of "advancing literacy efforts in Broward County." |
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South Florida Regional Planning Council
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The Council' mission is to identify the long-term challenges and opportunities facing Southeast Florida and assist the Region's leaders in developing and implementing creative strategies that result in more prosperous and equitable communities, a healthier and cleaner environment, and a more vibrant economy. |
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The Coordinating Council of Broward
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A higher quality of life for all, through working together. To create and support collaborative systems that more efficiently and effectively meet community needs. |
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Volunteer Broward
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To provide a central focus for the development, growth and coordination of volunteer activities and services within Broward County, Florida; to promote involvement from all and for all segments of the community in relation to voluntarism. |
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Workforce One
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The mission of the BWDB is to serve and empower all job seekers and employers through a flexible, customer-centered, streamlined, highly accountable and seamless delivery system. The BWDB will use the funding at its immediate disposal to serve those most in need and will take the lead in leveraging community resources. |
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State
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Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities
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The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities provides protection and advocacy services in the state of Florida. The Center's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, self-determination and expressed choices of persons with disabilities. |
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Florida Children’s Forum
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The Florida Children’s Forum promotes quality child care, early education, and work/family solutions throughout the state. The Forum also serves as a statewide network of child care professionals, business and political leaders, government entities, families and individuals who share a common vision to make Florida a quality child caring state. |
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Florida Coalition for Children
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The Florida Coalition of Children is an unprecedented partnership between Lead Agencies and child welfare providers. They strive to encourage a climate of decision making responsive to the needs of Florida's children, youth and families; and to promote quality systems of care through value-based and fiscally accountable programs. |
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Florida Coordinating Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
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The Florida Coordinating Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is tasked with the responsibility of ensuring full and equal accessibility for more than two million deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened, and deaf-blind individuals in the state of Florida. |
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Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
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Liberty and justice for all is not a guarantee. It takes vigilance. It takes work. Most of all it takes organizations such as the not-for-profit Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center which fights for the human rights of immigrants of all nationalities. |
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Florida Kinship Center
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Welcome to a Center dedicated to serving kinship care families - grandparents and other relatives raising children - in the State of Florida. We're so pleased you've visited our site. |
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Florida Success By 6® Partnership
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Success By 6 is identified with a community's activities undertaken to ensure that children under the age of six enter school prepared to be successful throughout the years that follow. |
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Florida’s Children’s First!
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Florida's Children First!, Inc. (FCF!) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of the legal rights of at-risk children, especially those in foster care, and gives these children a powerful voice before all levels of government. |
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Miami-Dade County Children’s Trust – Legislative Developments Page
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The Children's Trust analyzes and monitors local, state and federal legislation that affects children and families in Miami-Dade County. This web channel includes issues that are under consideration in Tallahassee and Washington. Direct links are provided to offer the most up to date information. |
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Schools of Wellness Initiative
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The Schools of Wellness Initiative (SWI) promotes lifelong wellness skills, emphasizing physical activity and nutrition.
The ultimate goal is to improve the health, academic performance and attendance of elementary school children, thereby decreasing the alarming rate of childhood obesity throughout our local community. |
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University of Miami's Children & Youth Law Clinic
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The University of Miami's Children & Youth Law Clinic provides legal representation to poor children(primarily those within the foster care system), ensuring that they have a voice in the court proceedings, and engaging in impact litigation, law reform advocacy and community lawyering. |
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Voices for Florida’s Children
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Voices for Florida's Children is an alliance of Floridians which informs, inspires, and empowers the people of Florida to create safe and healthy communities where all children and families can prosper. |
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Advocates for Youth
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Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates provides information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world. |
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is one of the nation’s premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. |
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Child Trends DataBank
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The Child Trends DataBank is a one-stop-shop for the latest national trends and research on over 80 key indicators of child and youth well-being. New indicators are added each month! |
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Child Welfare League of America
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The Child Welfare League of America is the nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization. We are committed to engaging people everywhere in promoting the well-being of children, youth, and their families, and protecting every child from harm. |
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Children’s Defense Fund
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The mission of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. |
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Connect for Kids
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Connect for Kids helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. An alternative news source on the Web, Connect for Kids provides solutions-oriented coverage of critical issues for children and families. |
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Stand for Children
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Stand for Children is a highly effective grassroots voice for children. Our members advocate for schools, early childhood education, after-school enrichment, and other programs that give children a fair chance in life. |
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The Brookdale Foundation - Relatives as Parents Program
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The Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) is designed to encourage and promote the creation or expansion of services for grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of surrogate parenting, due to the unwillingness or inability of parents to care for their own children. The program awards seed grants of $10,000 over a two-year period in two categories: local agencies and agencies. |
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Urban Institute
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The Urban Institute measures effects, compares options, shows which stakeholders get the most and least, tests conventional wisdom, reveals trends, and makes costs, benefits, and risks explicit. |
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Voices for America’s Children
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The mission of Voices for America's Children is to improve the lives of children in the United States. Voices pursues this mission primarily by enhancing the effectiveness of state- and locally-based, multi-issue child advocacy organizations. |
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