The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services is a non-profit statewide association and contract management entity, of 31 agencies dealing with runaway, truant, ungovernable and other troubled youth and their families.
The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services is a non-profit statewide association and contract management entity, of 31 agencies dealing with runaway, truant, ungovernable and other troubled youth and their families.
The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services ("The Florida Network") was founded in 1976. It has a special statutory designation to provide its youth crisis centers services specifically as a "Children/Families In Need of Services" (CINS/FINS) organization.
Originally, there were seventeen Florida Network crisis shelters providing services in specialized client intake, crisis stabilization, residential and non-residential counseling, and case management.
Eventually, the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services would expand to 31 crisis agencies and community-based organizations, while adding onto its plate contract monitoring (in 2001, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice would give it exclusive contract management responsibility for CINS/FINS), data collection, quality improvement, staff training, communications and fundraising.
Moreover, it would receive recognition from the American Bar Association and the Vera Institute of Justice for its path-breaking program model, while also being profiled by The New York Times for its early efforts to help at-risk teenagers.
Today, the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services is a model Florida Department of Juvenile Justice service provider, carefully managing a $31 million contract, and running a full-scale membership portfolio that includes a refined quality improvement process, legislative advocacy, comprehensive best practices training in prevention, and non-profit financial management expertise, making it one of the most effective organizations for prevention advocacy within the United States.
The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services is a membership-based association of 31 agencies, run by a 16-member citizen Board of Directors', and the President/CEO of the organization, Stacy Gromatski. Board membership is based on circuit representation, and includes three agency directors as ex-officio members of the Board of Directors.'
Board of Directors
Chairman Chris Dudley, Southern Strategy Group
Vice Chairman Sheriff Don Eslinger, Seminole County
Treasurer David Griffin, Consultant
Secretary Cynthia Hadley, Community Leader
Dominic Calabro, Immediate Past Chairman, Florida TaxWatch
Barry Cofield, NFL Player
Laurie Jackson, National Safe Place
Samuel Morley, General Counsel, Florida Press Association
Tracy Salem, Ex Officio, Orange County Government
Carl Weinrich, Ex Officio, President/CEO, Sarasota YMCA
Brian C. Johnson, Ex Officio, Community Based-Connections
Jim Pearce, Ex Officio, CDS Family & Behavioral Services
Matt Meadows, Former Legislator
Kathy Tuell, Former President/CEO of the Florida Keys Children's Shelter
Dennis Jones, Former Tallahassee Police Chief
Maggie Bowles, Community Advocate and Volunteer
Staff
Stacy Gromatski, Ed.S, President/CEO
Terry DeCerchio, M.A., Director of CINS/FINS Contract Operations
Keith Dean, C.P.A., Chief Financial Officer
Keith Carr, Contract Compliance Monitor
Kirk Hudson, B.S., Statistician and Director of Information Management
John Robertson, M.S., Program Services Director
Celia Bass, Office Administrator/Event Planner
Jessica Fransler, CINS/FINS Contract Specialist
Megan Smith, M.S., Statewide Respite Coordinator
Michelle Avaroma, M.P.A., Communications Coordinator
Karen Boulding, Statewide Training Coordinator
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OJJDP. , U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention.
Florida TaxWatch Accountability Report. , Florida Watch Watch Accountability Report, September 2001.