Camelot Community Care

Child welfare case management programs: provide dependency and permanency services to children in state custody, both in out-of-home care and relative/non-relative placements. Certified case managers work with children and families to address the reasons for their entering the child welfare system with the goal of reunifying the child with the family. In some cases, the child may not be reunified with the family, and in these cases, camelot works to seek a permanent home for the child through other relatives or adoption. Each day, camelot serves over 700 children in this program.

Lead agency services: dcf contracts with the children's network of southwest florida (cnsf) and the children's network of hillsborough (cnh) to administer the community-based care program as lead agencies for designated counties along florida's suncoast. Both cnsf and cnh are responsible for abused and neglected children and their families, and work with local community providers to protect children and preserve families. These goals are accomplished through a system of care in which both cnsf and cnh administer foster care services, adoption services, protective services, prevention…