New Port Richey, FL – Pasco Kids First welcomes Marcia Brevard Wynn, Ph.D. as the organization’s new Executive Director. Dr. Wynn brings more than seven years of nonprofit experience to Pasco Kids First, to include leadership roles as both an Executive Director and Housing Director. She has also successfully served several years in the areas […]
Message from the Executive Director
Marcia Brevard Wynn, PhD Executive Director
Welcome and thank you for visiting the Pasco Kids First website. I am Marcia Brevard Wynn, the Executive Director.
We are fully invested in and committed to our mission to keep kids safe, strengthen families through empowerment and enhance our community by preventing child abuse and healing children from trauma, and this has been evident since the establishment of our organization almost 30 years ago.
On behalf of Pasco Kids First, I invite you to explore our website and learn more about all that we have to offer. I am sure you will see why we love what we do. Feel free to contact us at (727) 845-8080 or you can reach out to me via email at mwynn@pascokidsfirst.org with any questions or if you need additional information.
Foundation of Caring Supports PKF Trauma Therapy
The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring selected Pasco Kids First as a grant recipient in the amount of $11,250. The Foundation CEO Angela Pottinger and Development Coordinator Chrissy Bond toured the Pasco Kids First Children’s Advocacy Center in New Port Richey and presented the check to Kelly Plouffe the Trauma Treatment Team Director. The […]
Farewell Open House for Rick Hess
The Pasco Kids First Board of Directors are holding a Farewell Open House for President & CEO Rick Hess this Thursday, June 28th from 11am-3pm at the PKF Children’s Advocacy Center. Come by to thank Rick for his 21 years of service with Pasco Kids First! Refreshments will be provided.
400 Pasco and Hernando Families to Benefit from Bilingual Oral Health Program
Pasco Kids First has launched a new bilingual oral health navigation program benefiting children and families in Pasco and Hernando counties thanks to a grant from the Florida Blue Foundation. Through the new program a bilingual Oral Health Navigator, Julissa Cantillo, will provide in-home education visits with families in the Healthy Families Pasco-Hernando program as well as guidance to […]
Rick Hess Announces Retirement from Pasco Kids First
New Port Richey, FL – Rick Hess, President & CEO of Pasco Kids First announced his retirement to the Pasco Kids First leadership team. Hess has been with Pasco Kids First for 21 years and his retirement date will be June 29, 2018. Hess joined Pasco Kids First after 22 years of experience in juvenile […]
Publix Serves Day at Pasco Kids First
More than 85 Publix associates from ten stores worked on a variety of projects at the Pasco Kids First Children’s Advocacy Center and Healthy Families Hudson Office as part of their annual Publix Serves Day. The workers built shelving and organized the advocacy center donation closet where clothing, shoes, diapers, hygiene products and other items […]
2018 Healthy Families Pasco – Hernando Graduates
The Healthy Families Pasco-Hernando program held their 2018 Graduation honoring 12 Graduate families at the Phi Delta Kappa Banquet Hall in Odessa sponsored by the Gulf Side Corvette Club. The Graduating Moms included: Christine Phillips, Danielle Wood-Perez, Jordain Miller, Elisha Oquendo, Sasha Crissantemi, Crystal Ward, Dawn Matthews, Margaret Millan, Nancy Cardoza, Ashley Stein and Jodi […]
