Senate Bill sb2896

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2896

    By Senator Dockery





    15-2034A-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution commending Florida Baptist

  3         Children's Home for its support of children of

  4         this state for the past 100 years.

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  6         WHEREAS, Florida Baptist Children's Home is a

  7  faith-based, nonprofit organization that provides safe,

  8  stable, Christian homes for boys and girls who have been

  9  neglected, misdirected, abandoned, abused, or caught up in

10  family turmoil, and

11         WHEREAS, Florida Baptist Children's Home ensures that

12  children in its care receive medical care, nourishing food,

13  proper clothing, and education, including counseling, love,

14  attention, and a positive lifestyle, and

15         WHEREAS, Florida Baptist Children's Home seeks to

16  provide for children in its care a childhood that is as normal

17  as possible by giving them hope, and providing for their

18  physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs, and

19         WHEREAS, Florida Baptist Children's Home selects both

20  boys and girls to live at its facilities, based upon the

21  child's need and the Home's ability to help them, and

22         WHEREAS, Florida Baptist Children's Home employs

23  Christian house parents and social workers who do not regard

24  the children as clients or case loads but instead, truly care

25  for and about the children, loving and nurturing them, and

26  laughing and crying with them, and

27         WHEREAS, Florida Baptist Children's Home takes a

28  proactive approach in healing broken lives by encouraging the

29  social workers to interact with each child and his or her

30  family, house parents, or foster parents, to ensure that

31  progress is being made in each unique situation, and

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2896
    15-2034A-04




 1         WHEREAS, Florida Baptist Children's Home has also

 2  committed its support for the Florida Baptist Convention's

 3  emphasis on the Sanctity of Human Life, providing a specialist

 4  to work with pastors, pregnancy care centers, and pregnant,

 5  unwed, teen-age girls to help prevent abortions, and

 6         WHEREAS, Florida Baptist Children's Home operates

 7  campuses in many cities in Florida, including Miami, Fort

 8  Myers, Lakeland, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and Pensacola,

 9  serving school-age boys and girls in family-style residences,

10  NOW, THEREFORE,

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12  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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14         That the Florida Baptist Children's Home is commended

15  for its outstanding support of and contributions to the lives

16  of Florida's children, on this its 100th anniversary.

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