Advocates and Legislative Issues

The mission of Jacksonville Children's Commission advocacy effort is to provide child advocates easy access to the best available information about current advocacy issues.Thank you for supporting children!

Join us as we speak up and stand up for children.

Florida Children's Services Council (FCSC)

The Jacksonville Children's Commission is a member of the Florida Children's Services Council (FCSC) which supports primary prevention and early intervention programs that promote positive family functioning.

Each year the FCSC identifies and monitors primary legislative issues and leads the charge to speak on behalf of children and youth.

The Children’s Movement of Florida  

The Children's Movement of Florida is a citizen-led, non-partisan movement to educate political, business and civic leaders -- and all parents of the state of Florida -- about the urgent need to substantially improve the way we care for our children. Led by Chairman David Lawrence, Jr., The Children’s Movement identified five key priority issues for the 2011 Legislative Agenda—Health Care, Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten, Special Needs Screening, Mentoring and Parenting. For more information, visit www.childrensmovementflorida.org or contact Nick Duran, Campaign Manager at (305) 646-7136 or nick.duran@childrensmovementflorida.org.

The Florida Afterschool Network

The mission of the Florida Afterschool Network is to provide unified leadership to advocate for the development, enhancement and sustainability of innovative, high quality afterschool programs and policies statewide. For more information about this organization, visit www.myfan.org.

Tobacco-Free Jacksonville Coalition 

The Tobacco-Free Jacksonville Coalition is a local community partnership of adults and youth working together to prevent youth tobacco use and youth exposure to second-hand smoke, whereby youth conceive and carry out tobacco prevention. Tobacco-Free Jacksonville Coalition is a resource for public education on the health effects of tobacco and smoking prevention. Tobacco-Free Jacksonville Coalition supports legislative actions against tobacco. For tobacco cessation resources or information on current legislative issues, visit www.tobaccofreejacksonville.org or call (904) 253-1600.