Cassel has introduced a bill that would enhance reporting to enable Florida students to have better access mental health ...

Press release from the Florida Department of Children and Families TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, Department of Children and Families (Department) Secretary Shevaun Harris announced the new Adopt Florida ...

Strong Florida Moms and the expanded resources on Father First will ... The post The Department of Health and Department of Children and Families launch new parenting resources appeared first ...

The Baker Act allows a person to be involuntarily detained and examined if they are believed to be having a mental health ...

MULBERRY, Fla. (CBS12) — An undocumented man is behind bars after he was accused of sexually battering a teen girl for ...

The man is accused of sexually abusing a girl in his care for three years, and in a first for Polk County, his charges were ...

A 37-year-old woman from Hialeah Gardens was arrested last week after she physically abused her daughter, authorities said.

TAMPA — Statewide Prosecutor Nicholas B. Cox, a respected lawyer and Tampa native who began his career prosecuting violent ...

She's currently with the Florida Department of Children and Families. On Monday ... and we will make sure she receives all the resources available to be able to recover from this terrible abuse ...

No matter where you stand on this issue, this is still a democracy. We do not spend taxpayer dollars in advance of a ...

A Guatemalan man living in Mulberry has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a minor in his care. In a first for Polk County, and possibly the state, his charges have been upgraded because ...

A man who Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd accuses of committing the "worst of the worst" crimes by enslaving and sexually abusing a child for years is facing upgraded charges for being in the country ...