For Agencies

If you represent an agency serving children and/or families in Florida and can see the benefit of unifying efforts of your local service providers in order to enhance your collective ability to serve, then you could be instrumental in turning your community into a Whole Child community.

The Lawton Chiles Foundation provides seed money for Whole Child Florida, which offers designated Whole Child Communities the leadership and guidance to reach their goals for young children. This includes organizational meetings with an introduction to core beliefs and principles, a comprehensive downloadable on-line toolkit with key documents, and step-by step guides to becoming a Whole Child community.

Whole Child Florida will provide linkages with technology partners, and to statewide organizations such as the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet, Children’s Services Councils, the Florida Association of Early Learning Coalitions and the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions.

Finally, each Whole Child Community, once designated, will become part of a full service web community with individual websites, database and communication functionalities to foster discussion between and among the greater statewide community.

Whole Child Florida will seek partners to help host a series of statewide meetings and summits to share best practices between and among Whole Child Communities and with other statewide organizations.

To learn more about the process of becoming a Whole Child community, please download the Whole Child Tool Kit.

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You may also contact us directly for more information or to set up a consultation and introduction to the process.