Explore Adoption is a statewide adoption program. It promotes the benefits of public adoption. It urges families to consider creating or expanding their families by adopting a "special needs" child. This means a child who is older, has a medical condition, or is a part of a sibling group. Explore Adoption invites Floridians to find out more about the children available for adoption in their home state.

Visit the website to see answers to all of your questions. You can also view profiles of the children who are ready to be adopted. There are post adoption services as well many other support services.

Three Rivers Legal Services provides the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic. They can give free legal help when the IRS threatens to take your home or garnish your wages. They can also help when someone has used your identity to file a fake return, or when the IRS audits you. Please call or visit website for more information.

Florida Kidcare has low cost health insurance for children aged birth - 18 years. Please call or visit the website to learn more information.

Programs Include:
Healthy Kids
MediKids
Children's Medical Services Health Plan
Medicaid

The aim of this agency is to help protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse and neglect. The Hotline gets calls, faxes and web based reports from concerned citizens.

Anyone who suspects that a child has been abused needs to report it to the Florida Abuse Hotline. Failure to do so is considered a felony.

Florida Abuse Hotline: 1.800.962.2873
TDD: 800.453.5145

This program provides you with the support, guidance and resources to help you quit. This six session program could be all it takes for you to become tobacco free!

The program was designed by an ex-smoker. It is led by a trained facilitator who will guide you through the many issues related to quitting smoking, including:

• Coping with anger, sleep problems, and cravings
• Managing stress
• How physical activity and health food choices can make quitting tobacco easier
• How to prevent relapse (using tobacco again)
• Identifying and controlling your tobacco “triggers”
• What to do when you have friends and family who use tobacco around you

Northeast Florida Intergroup Services helps those suffering from alcohol abuse with Alcoholics Anonymous. Please call or visit website for more information.

LIHEAP helps pay home energy bills in times of emergency. The amount of payment is the minimum amount needed to resolve the crisis. These services are only available to eligible households on a seasonal basis. This usually means help during one winter and one summer per year. Clients are the elderly and disabled. Other clients are low income households with young children. The aim is to avoid health and safety issues during periods of extreme heat or cold.

The agency partners with the Jacksonville Electric Authority and Florida Power and Light.

Please call the office for more information.