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Champions for Change

What does it mean to be a Champion?

Faith-based Community Champions for Change Since the Beginning of Time

…and in Our Lifetime ✓ Florida Network of Youth and ✓ Ending child marriage Family Services ✓ Juvenile justice reform ✓ Healthy Start ✓ Expanded and improved ✓ Ounce of Prevention Fund and programs for disabled children Healthy Families ✓ Passed and protected the Safe ✓ Family Café Harbor Act ✓ Early Steps ✓ Foster care reform ✓ Open Doors Outreach Network

Complex Social Problems • Society’s outcome that results from human behavior • BROAD crises crossing many systems: ✓ Poverty ✓ Food Insecurity ✓ Homelessness ✓ Requires multidimensional/ eco-system solutions vs linear

Our Unified Team for Creating, Being & Powering the Change

Voices for Florida: Creating the Change • Accelerate and sustain innovations that solve complex problems. • Develop networks of networks to leverage capacity and create impactful outcomes. • Build brand, public trust and investor confidence through model fidelity, coordinated connectivity and measuring meaningful outcomes. • Create impact funding opportunities for investors and donors. • Establish continued training & education of promising best practices and process improvement principles.

Our Latest Complex Social Problem: Improving Care, Coordination and Collective Impact for Commercially Sexually Exploited & Sex Trafficked Children and Young Adults

• Coordinated, health-centered services to victims of sex trafficking age 10-24 • 24/7/365 services in 32 counties • Partner with Network Providers throughout the state • Since July 2017, 684 victims served

Our Network Approach Standardized service delivery • Avoid duplication of services by • leveraging existing resources Collaboration through • community partnerships Funding follows the survivor • Consistent training & education •

Text CHAMPION4CHANGE to 22828 for Updates about Open Doors and Champions for Change

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