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As I take on the position of Executive Director of the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Program, I wonder how we can help more children? How we can provide a more stable future for children aging out of the Florida’s dependency system? How can we help children with their education? How we can keep families together? How we can provide a powerful voice on behalf of Florida’s dependent children? It is an overwhelming and critical responsibility.
Then I remember that, as with all difficulties in life, we cannot do it alone. In Florida, there are tens of thousands of children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned by the adult in their life and are a part of the dependency system. The Guardian ad Litem Program helps these children through volunteers – currently the Program has 7,000 volunteers who give a voice in court to thousands of children. But the need for more volunteers is great.
There are still thousands of dependent children who have no voice in court. Perhaps you could be the voice? Perhaps you are the volunteer that will ensure a child has visitation with her little brother; the volunteer that will ensure a child is progressing educationally, medically and emotionally; or the volunteer that will ensure that decisions made are in the child’s best interest.
Perhaps you are the volunteer that will make all the difference in one child’s life. Please join our dedicated group of volunteers and staff in helping provide a powerful voice for children in court – one voice at a time.
Sincerely,
Theresa A. Flury
Executive Director
Florida Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office
The Statewide Guardian ad Litem Program is supported by the Florida
Guardian ad Litem Foundation -- a non-profit organization. The time
and money contributed by Florida Guardian ad Litem Foundation is essential to successfully meeting
the needs of the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Program’s children
and volunteers.
Watch volunteer guardians ad litem discuss what being a volunteer means to them.
Guardian ad Litem 2009 Annual Report
Guardian ad Litem Volunteer Brochure (English)
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