The Florida Agenda - Acknowledgements

This Florida Agenda has been developed as a collaborative effort by current and former Directors of The Policy Group for Florida's Families and Children, which includes:

• Bob Friedman, Ph.D., Chair, Child & Family Studies/FMHI, University of South Florida;
• Carol McNally, Executive Director, Healthy Families Florida, Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida;
• Charles Mahan, M.D., Dean, College of Public Health, University of South Florida;
• Cheryl Fountain, Ph.D., Executive Director, Florida Institute of Education,University of North Florida;
• Chuck Hood, President, Miami-Dade School Readiness Coalition;
• David Lawrence, Jr., President, Early Childhood Initiative Foundation;
• Dee Jeffers, R.N., M.P.H., Associate Director, The Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies, University of South Florida;
• Douglas Sessions, President, The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida;
• Ed Feaver, Division Director, The Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for HealthyMothers and Babies;
• Jack Levine, President, Center for Florida's Children;
• Jim Mills, Executive Director, Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County;
• Luanne J. Panacek, Executive Director, Children's Board of Hillsborough County;
• Mary Freeland, Executive Director, Jacksonville Children's Commission;
• Roy Miller, Director, Florida Children's Campaign;
• Stanley Graven, M.D., Director, Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies, University of South Florida;
• Steve Freedman, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida;
• Tana Ebbole, Executive Director, Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County; and
• Ted Granger, President, United Way of Florida/Success by 6 Partnership,

And with support from

• Barbara F. Foster, Ph.D., Former Executive Director, The Policy Group for Florida's Families and Children and
• Alisa S. Ghazvini, Ph.D., Early Childhood Consultant.

This Florida Agenda has been developed as a collaborative effort with input from:

• Conni Wells, President, Florida Institute for Family Involvement;
• Debra Dowds, Legislative Analyst, Senate Committee for Children and Families;
• Ethel Duncan, Chair, Women's Ministries, Wildwood Presbyterian Church;
• Frank Alvarez, Staff Director, Health and Human Services, Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability;
• Jesse Leinfelder, Ph.D., Early Childhood Training Coordinator, Marilyn Mailman Segal Institute for Child and Family Studies, Nova Southeastern University;
• Jim Bailey, Healthy Start Program Manager, Florida Department of Health;
• John Turcotte, Director, Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability;
• Lindsey Phillips, Associate, Florida Institute for Family Involvement;
• Marcie Biddleman, Executive Director, Devereux Kids, Inc.;
• Marilyn Segal, Ph.D., Founder and Dean Emeritus, Marilyn Mailman Segal Institute for Child and Family Studies, Nova Southeastern University; and
• Rob Lombardo, Director, Big Bend Rural Health Network.

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