Eckerd Connects Corrective Action Plan For Hillsborough County, Florida Community-Based Care Lead Agency Contract

Eckerd Connects, the child welfare Community-Based Care lead agency in Hillsborough County, Florida, released this corrective action plan on July 13,2018. The plan has the approval of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF). In the plan, Eckerd presented a series of activities to address problems identified earlier in 2018. DCF required Eckerd to address the following: the placement crisis; governance issues; collaborative decisionmaking; initial placement stability; foster parent recruitment, licensing, training, and support; gaps in the service array; timely case closure; issues recommendations by the DCF Office of the Inspector General; and financing issues . . .