Florida Department of Children and Families Selects Eckerd Youth Alternatives as Lead Agency for Pinellas and Pasco Counties

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News On April 2, 2008, the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) selected Eckerd Youth Alternatives (Eckerd) to serve as the community-based care lead agency for foster care services for DCF District 6, which includes Pinellas and Pasco counties. The selection ended a unique situation in which DCF was in simultaneous negotiations with two organizations — Eckerd and Camelot Community Care — whose proposals received nearly identical scores. Both organizations responded to an invitation to negotiate (ITN) released on December 11, 2007. The contract for services is valued at . . .