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Mentoring & Intergenerational
 Adults Mentoring Children program matches at-risk children with trained adult and senior volunteers, providing supportive relationships that expose the children to positive role models, develop self-esteem, and provide a sense of stability in their uncertain lives. Our intergenerational programs have been recognized for their excellence by the Mott and Exxon foundations.
Adopt-a-Grandchild serves children through age 16 who are from single parent families that have no local support.
Linking Lifetimes serves middle school children at-risk of truancy and delinquency.
Permanency Support Planning serves children ages 3-11 who are in state protective services supervision or in foster care due to abuse or neglect.
Yad B' Yad matches Jewish volunteers with Jewish youth from single parent families who could benefit from stable, adult role models.
Special Friends is a community based mentoring program that matches adult volunteers with children at risk of abuse and neglect. This program serves children in Polk County. Volunteers and the children participate in various activities throughout the community to give the children the possibility of a more stable future through friendship and support by matching a volunteer to spend a minimum of one hour per week with the child.
Capable and Caring Parent Program assists families in developing an environment that is competent in providing support, structure, safety and appropriate limits/boundaries in order to reduce the potential for child abuse and neglect. Program Serves: Miami-Dade County.
Ounce of Prevention
The Woman to Woman Program provides one-to-one mentoring to pregnant teens and teen mothers. The goals of the program are to prevent subsequent pregnancies among the teen mothers, increase self-esteem, strengthen their relationships with their parents, strengthen their skills as parents, and ensure academic success. Each teen is matched with a mentor who provides support and stability to encourage the emotional and social development of the teen through group workshops designed to help each youth reach personal goals. This two -year program includes a weekend retreat, a youth workshop series, parent education and family activities, and referrals to educational, employment and social service resources to help teen parents. The program serves all of Hillsborough County.
Violence Prevention
Violence Prevention is a middle school-based program designed to work with students, staff and parents to reduce drug use and violence. Positive and pro-social decision making is the program's core value. Independent evaluation has shown the program to be effective at reducing in-school and out of school suspensions, and referrals for aggressive, antisocial and disruptive behaviors.
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Gulf Coast Child Protective Services provides case management services to children and their families in the Tri-County area (Polk, Highland, and Hardee counties) and Pinellas County. Our goal is to provide case management services that help families develop safe and stable family environments free from abuse and neglect.
We believe that protecting children and strengthening families involves knowledge, commitment, and involvement with and from the community at large. We provide these services by developing family-centered, strength based and needs-driven case plans with family participation. We then work with each family to access needed services and supports for their children and the family in order to reduce the risk of out of home placements. As needed we work with the families and the court system to facilitate out of home placements if necessary with safety and permanency the highest priorities.
Hillsborough Kids Incorporated (partnered with Gulf Coast Community Care), is the lead agency in Tampa, Florida that holds the contract for all child protective services performed by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) in the south region of the county. Gulf Coast manages a staff of 47 people and 719 children. Gulf Coast Child Protective Services provides case management services to children and their families in Hillsborough County. Our goal is to ensure children are safe, their needs are met, and families develop a safe and stable living environment. The community and other providers help to play a key role in ensuring we can accomplish our goals and outcomes measures. Gulf Coast's hope is that all families will develop the necessary skills to break cycles of abuse in order to make a positive change in their children’s lives.
Abuse & Neglect Prevention
Family Builders is a short-term, high-intensity parenting and home care skill teaching program provided to parents who are at risk of their children being removed from the home due to neglect and/or abuse. This family preservation service is delivered by a team of trained professionals to ensure the safety of children and to help stabilize the family structure. Family Builders serves Polk, Highlands and Hardee Counties
Child Protective Services in Polk and Pinellas Counties provides in-home protective service supervision to families referred by protective services investigators as part of the privatization of child welfare services in the state of Florida. Gulf Coast is the first agency in Polk County to provide children's services as part of the privatization of protective services and foster care in Florida.
Therapeutic Behavioral On Site Services (TBOSS) and Targeted Case Management (TCM) provides individual and family counseling to prevent the need for more restrictive out of home placements for children in the protective services system. The TCM program serves the same population and provides creative case management and support designed to coordinate and optimize services for children and parents. Often TBOSS and TCM services are provided concurrently by our treatment teams to serve the most needy cases.
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