RESOURCES
If you have concerns about a child’s safety, please call the Florida DCF Abuse Hotline at 1-800-96-ABUSE or use this link. If you suspect or know of a child in immediate danger, call 911.
Below are several resources to help kids, parents and families. For help with other resources, please call our office at 727-845-8080.
Funding Home Visiting Program
In states and tribal communities across the country, home visitors continue to support families’ basic needs and emotional well-being throughout a period of high stress and economic instability brought on by the pandemic and recession.
Dealing with Stress
Pasco Kids First recognizes the increased stress that the recent hurricanes have put on the families in our community. The American Psychological Association recommends several steps to build resiliency and to deal with stressful circumstances http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/road-resilience.aspx
Safe Sleep
Useful Links
The following links are additional resources to aid in the fight against child abuse and neglect:
- Abuse Reporting Portal
- Child Protective Investigations
- Court Systems
- Healthy Families Florida
- Florida Department of Children and Families
- The Florida Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers
- Healthy Families America
- National Children’s Alliance
- Bootcamp for New Dads
- CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Child Care Aware
- Child Help National Child Abuse Hotline
- Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Metropolitan Ministries
- National Center for Fathering
- The Ounce of Prevention of Florida
- Parents Anonymous
- Parent Services Project National
- Parents Without Partners
- Text4Baby
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Zero to Three
- The Parent’s Guide to Childcare Safety
- A Parent’s Guide to First Aid
- Preventing Wandering in Children with Autism: Resources for Parents and First Responders
- The Essential Teen Internet Safety Guide
- 6 Ways to Cope While Raising Kids and Caring for Elderly Parents
- A Family Affair: The Science Behind Creating Culinary Masterpieces with Your Young Chef
- How to Spend More Quality Time With Your Child
- The 10 Best Family Dog Breeds
- Health Insurance Options for At-risk, Homeless, and Vulnerable Youth
- Sunrise of Pasco County Domestic & Sexual Violence Center
- Kids Central Connect
- Managing Financial Challenges for Single Parents by moneygeek
- Addiction and Bullying