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Pasco Kids First Donors Make Back-to-School Easier
Pasco Kids First serves more than 1,600 children each year through prevention, assessment and treatment services addressing child abuse and neglect. Most of these children are school age and many do not have the resources to purchase the needed school supplies and...
Child Protection Team Medical Exams – September Program Spotlight
The medical examination of children for suspected abuse and neglect is a key component of a Children’s Advocacy Center. This includes obtaining a medical history and conducting a physical examination to assess allegations of abuse or neglect. Photo documentation also...
Healthy Families One-Step Eligibility Process
Healthy Families Florida (HFF) moved to a “one-step” eligibility process for engaging and enrolling families in HFF services. What does “one-step” eligibility mean? Beginning on July 1st, families referred to HFF by the following sources are eligible for services:...
Hope isn’t limited to school grounds
Welcome to September. Like everything else in 2020, it’s not a normal September—it’s strangely quiet without the usual bustle and flow of school buses in the mornings and raucous dismissals in the afternoons. Nevertheless, children are back in school, in one form or...
Pasco Kids First Office Safety Precautions
Pasco Kids First is taking the following precautions to protect our clients and staff and help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Pasco Kids First team members will wear masks and you and your children must wear a face covering to comply with the Pasco County...
Daughters of Penelope Baby Shower for PKF
The Daughters of Penelope EROS Chapter 356 held a baby shower event at their monthly meeting at the AHEPA 489 Apartment House. There was no specific mommy to be or baby present but the group of caring and generous women each brought in baby items such as diapers, toys...
Pasco Kids First Earns National Re-accreditation
PASCO KIDS FIRST EARNS RE-ACCREDITATION FROM NATIONAL CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE National Children’s Alliance recognizes Pasco Kids First for its ongoing delivery of high quality and effective services to child abuse victims through accreditation NEW PORT RICHEY, FL (April...
Pasco Kids First Updates Regarding COVID-19
We want to thank you for your continued support of Pasco Kids First and the children and families we serve each day. As a community organization proudly serving those in need throughout Pasco and Hernando Counties, we know how difficult and complex times like these...
Chasco Fiesta King and Queen Raise $2,700 for Pasco Kids
King Pithla Paul Friedlander and Queen Chasco Lisa Shippy-Gonzalez held a Royal Super Bowl Party as a fundraiser for Pasco Kids First. The event was held at the Phi Delta Kappa Banquet Hall in Odessa and included a meal, beverages, huge projection screen of the big...
Fraternity Presents Check to Pasco Kids First
The Florida Alpha Lambda Chapter of the Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity presented Pasco Kids First President & CEO with a check donation of $1,500.00 at their recent chapter meeting at their fraternity house in Odessa. In 2019, Pasco County had 7,521 child abuse...
PKF Secures New Equipment for Pediatric Abuse Exams
Pasco Kids First recently acquired a state-of-the-art LT-300SD colposcope to be used in pediatric sexual abuse examinations. The new equipment allows the Child Protection Team medical professionals to use the colposcope on a vertical stand to perform the exam with...
Publix Donates to Pasco Kids First
Publix Super Market at the Shoppes of Golden Acres donated more than 19 banana boxes of coffees, candy, toys and other items valued at $1,214 to Pasco Kids First’s Children’s Advocacy Center. Several associates of area Publix stores participated in a Day of Caring at...
Primrose VPK Classes Shop for Pasco Kids First
Land O’Lakes - Three VPK classes of Primrose School at Collier Parkway took field trips to Publix at Collier Parkway to buy food items for other kids in need. The students earned the funds by doing "Chores for Change" so they could go shopping at Publix to stock the...
Key Women Educators Donate to Pasco Kids First
The Delta Gamma Chapter of the International Society for Key Women Educators. The sorority chose to forgo a gift exchange at their annual holiday group meeting at Argentos in Port Richey. Instead, each Delta Gamma members chose to make Christmas a little brighter by...
Dr. Bodanza’s Patients Give to Pasco Kids First Teens
Dr. Todd Bodanza and his team from Champion Wellness Center/ Conforti Crossroads Chiropractic, Inc. coordinated a gift card and gift drive for teenagers receiving services from the Pasco Kids First’s Trauma Therapy Program. The chiropractic office offered free...
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