Links and Resources
4th Dimension Academy
The mission of 4th Demension Academy is to create a positive change and help develop personal growth in the lives of struggling students. This program is an Accredited Education Program dedicated and committed to providing an education to children in the 6th-12th grade age-group who either are or can be designated disabled by virtue of a physical, mental or emotional impairment as identified by the Individuals with Disabilities Educatio Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004, or whose children who are struggling or failing in school for other reasons.
Achieve
The mission of Achieve Tampa Bay is to guide and assistant families and individuals with any disability or other barriers to achieve their full potential, resulting in independency and community inclusion.
ACTS - Agency for Community Treatment Services
Agency for Community Treatment Services, Inc. (ACTS) is a not-for profit, charitable organization incorporated in 1978. The original mission of the organization was to serve as the single manager for alcoholism services for Hillsborough County. Currently, ACTS’ mission has expanded to include other drugs as well as services for children abusing substances and children in the state's dependency and delinquency service systems.
BAYS - Bay Area Youth Services
Bay Area Youth Services, Inc. envisions a safer Florida where people experience the benefits of life resulting from the reduced risk of harm caused by juvenile delinquency. BAYS’ vision also includes a Florida where youth and families can achieve positive goals, such as: good health, improved personal, family and social relationships, educational and career success, and a crime-free lifestyle
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
The Big Brothers Big Sisters Mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact.
Board of County Commissioners
There are seven members of the Board of County Commissioners for Hillsborough County. Four are elected from single-member districts, and three are elected county wide. The Board approves the County's operating and capital budgets and the County's capital improvement program. It may take action on any programs for the improvement of the county and the welfare of its residents.
Boys and Girls Club
The mission of the Boys and Girls Club is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities agencies strengthen their communities by empowering the people within them. They help families and individuals overcome tragedy, poverty, and other life challenges.
Central Florida
Central Florida Behavioral Health Network (CFBHN) is a not-for-profit 501(C)(3) organization of nineteen community providers incorporated to ensure and enhance an array of behavioral health and employment related services for the citizens of the community.
Centre for Girls
The Centre for Girls offers a Drop-In Program designed specifically for girls between the ages of 10-18. this program gives girls a safe place to go after school and on Saturdays to participate in fun and educational activities that interest them. This facility boasts a learning kitchen, computer lab, large multi-purpose activity rooms and much, much more!
Centre for Women
The Centre for Women provides hope, knowledge and peace of mind through services that promote independence and strengthen our community.
Children's Board
While serving youth of all ages in our community, the Children's Board focuses on children from birth to age 8 to provide healthy development through infanthood and the early school years. By concentrating on children early in life, the Board can offer an umbrella of coverage on vital initiatives such as promoting healthy births, improving school readiness, and achieving early school success.
Children's Home Society
We believe in children--in their promise and in their future. For nearly 100 years, our mission has been to provide effective solutions to build and support healthy families for Florida's children.
Children's Home, Inc.
The Children's Home is a child- and family-centered organization that is positioned to care for struggling families and children seeking the comfort of a loving family.
Crisis Center of Tampa Bay
The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc.is a private nonprofit organization that provides services for the local region. Crisis Center services and programs include crisis and suicide intervention and community resource referral, daily reassurance phone calls to the homebound elderly or disabled, short term economic assistance with case management, protective travel assistance, medical and/or mental health patient transportation, sexual abuse counseling for children and adults, forensic medical exams for sexual assault survivors, continuing education events, and volunteer opportunities.
DACCO
DACCO (Drug Abuse Comprehensive Coordinating Office, Inc.) was incorporated as a not-for-profit agency in 1973 through the leadership of representatives from the City of Tampa, Hillsborough County, the Chamber of Commerce, United Way and other organizations. Initially, DACCO provided drug abuse planning, coordination and monitoring for local governmental units. In 1975, DACCO received funding to provide drug treatment services. Over the 30 years of existence, DACCO has expanded to a major comprehensive community-based substance abuse service system reaching over 25,000 persons annually through prevention, intervention and treatment programs to primarily Hillsborough County residents.
Department of Children and Families
Protect the Vulnerable, Promote Strong and Economically Self-Sufficient Families, and Advance Personal and Family Recovery and Resiliency.
Department of Health
The role of public health is to promote and protect the health and safety of all Floridians. This mission is accomplished by: identifying health risks in the community; maintaining a safe and healthful environment; detecting, investigating, and preventing the spread of disease; promoting healthy lifestyles; providing primary care for individuals with limited access to such care from the private sector; and ensuring that health care practitioners meet the requirements for providing adequate care; informing the public on health issues.
Department of Juvenile Justice
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice works hard to protect the public by reducing juvenile crime and delinquency in Florida.
Family Support and Resource Centers
The Family Support & Resource Centers are regionally located throughout Hillsborough County (Town 'N Country, Brandon, and in North Tampa at University Square Mall) to meet the needs of families from all walks of life. All programs and services at the Centers are free of charge to any family or individual.
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
The Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health serves, with humility and determination, to provide and sustain leadership for a broad and deep nation-wide network of family-run organizations. We harness the passion and we honor the cultural diversity of our national membership and help focus it as a potent force for change in behalf of children with mental health needs and their families.
Florida Health Partners
The primary mission of Florida Health Partners, Inc. (FHP) is the delivery of high quality behavioral health services to Medicaid Enrollees. FHP is owned by a group of local mental health and substance abuse providers (Florida Behavioral Health, Inc.) and ValueOptions, Inc., a national managed behavioral health care organization. FHP was originally established under Florida statutes on October 1, 1993. FHP began operations in March 1996 to manage the delivery of mental health services to Medicaid Medipass members in Hillsborough, Hardee, Highlands, Manatee, and Polk Counties. FHP was unique in that it was one of the first joint ventures between local behavioral health providers and a managed care company. The providers contribute knowledge of local communities and consumers while ValueOptions contributes managed care strategies and best practices. The goal of FHP has been to provide timely access to appropriate services that produce positive treatment outcomes with high consumer satisfaction.
Florida Mental Health Institute
Florida's premier research and training center for behavioral health services research.
Goodwill Industries
To help people achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of work.
Healthy Start
Promoted by then-Governor Lawton Chiles, Healthy Start was established by the 1991 Florida Legislature to help reduce Florida's high infant mortality and improve the lives of pregnant women. Since then, nearly three dozen local coalitions statewide have gained support from government leaders and individuals of every political and philosophical opinion.
Hispanic Federation of Families
A national family-run organization dedicated exclusively to helping children with mental health needs and their families achieve a better quality of life has established its first ever Spanish Chapter in the Tampa Bay area. The Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health (FFCMH) Spanish Chapter, Familias Latinas Dejando Huellas – Capitulo Tampa Bay, supports Spanish speaking families by providing information on services that are available for children with serious emotional and mental health needs.
Hispanic Services Council
Hispanic Services Council (HSC) provides services and programs to provide the support necessary to help families develop the skills needed to grow in economic security and to confront and overcome barriers that systematically prevent them from gaining access to economic, educational, and social resources.
Mental Health Care
Back when Tampa was still a small town, Mental Health Care, Inc. was already helping mentally distressed individuals in the community. Since our inception in 1949, our goals have been - and continue to be - to provide the best mental health care available in settings that are the least restrictive to the people we serve.
Metropolitan Ministries
For 33 years, Metropolitan Ministries has served poor and homeless men, women and children year-round in the Tampa Bay region. We provide critical help and long-term answers to help our clients reach self-sufficiency, and are dependent on the generosity and partnership of our community.
Northside Mental Health Center
Northside Mental Health Center, a nonprofit community mental health center, has provided care to individuals in the community since 1976. Northside Mental Health Center offers innovative and high-quality mental health services that have received national recognition for high standards and effectiveness.
PACE Center for Girls
PACE Center for Girls, Inc. focuses on quality, gender-responsive, school based programs for at risk girls that produce life-changing opportunities. PACE has 19 direct care locations in Florida that have consistently exceeded outcome goals and achieved the highest quality assurance ratings. For more than 20 years, PACE has advocated for the systemic changes needed within juvenile justice to more effectively assist girls. PACE offers training and technical assistance that helps providers produce gender responsive programs or systems designed to assist girls at risk or involved in the juvenile justice system.
Phoenix House
Phoenix House has served communities in Florida since the early 1990s, helping many to overcome the problems associated with substance abuse and lead healthy, productive abd rewarding lives. Phoenix Houses of Florida operate outpatient treatment programs for adolescents and their families in Tampa.
Public Partnerships, LLC
PPL offers a rich array of fiscal intermediary and related administrative services to agencies seeking to develop non-traditional service delivery models focused on the needs of individual clients.
School District of Hillsborough County
Our school district is county-wide and consists of 197 schools grades K-12 (130 Elem., 41 Mid., 3 K-8, and 23 High); 73 additional centers (Charter, Early Child, ESE, etc); Education for students Early Childhood through Adult; Offering Schools of Choice (charter and magnet); Successful partnerships and more....
Tampa Bay Academy
Tampa Bay Academy offers residential treatment for children suffering with depression, family conflicts, abuse, anger, mental health problems, and sexual abuse. There is also a program for deaf children with behavior problems.
Tampa Housing Authority
The Housing Authority of the City of Tampa promotes the development and professional management of a variety of affordable housing opportunities, facilities and supportive services to nurture neighborhoods, provide economic development and self-sufficiency activities for residents while also assuring equal access to safe, quality housing for low and moderate income families throughout the community.
The Spring
The mission of Ths Spring is to prevent domestic violence, protect victims, and changethe lives of individuals, families, and communities.
University of South Florida
The University of South Florida is a multi-campus national research university that supports the development of the metropolitan Tampa Bay Region, Florida, the United States and the world. Building upon unique strengths inherent in Florida’s population, location, and natural resources, the university is dedicated to excellence in: Teaching and lifelong learning in a student-centered environment; Research to advance knowledge and promote social, cultural, economic, educational, health, and technological development ; Service based on academic excellence and the ethic of community responsibility; Community engagement to build university-community partnerships and collaborations.
Without Walls
Crossing racial, denominational and economic barriers, Without Walls embraces its mission to destroy the walls of racism and expose the deceptive lie of poverty over people's lives; holding firm to the truth that God wants to empower believers to live the abundant life physically, spiritually, financially and relationally.
YMCA
The Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, part of a worldwide fellowship which is driven by a loyalty to Judeo-Christian values but open to all faiths, uses volunteers and resources to provide significant solutions to community and nurture family and individual development of spirit, mind & body.
Youth Advocate Program
The agency mission is to provide community-based alternatives for the care and protection of individuals who are, have been, or may be subject to compulsory placement in public or private institutions.
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