About Us

Our mission is to protect children, strengthen families and change lives through child abuse prevention and the operation and management of a comprehensive, integrated, community-based system of care for abused, abandoned, and neglected children and their families.

The vision of Family Partnerships of Central Florida and its stakeholders is to manage a child welfare system committed to:

• Putting the safety of children first at all times.
• Ensuring permanency that resolves a child’s sense of time.
• Providing customized services that meet the unique needs of each child and family and are provided by a comprehensive, community-based network of providers who are dedicated to delivering a family-centered, need-driven, responsive service delivery system.
• Efficiently and effectively managing resources to achieve better outcomes for children, with the ultimate goal of ensuring child safety and permanency within a 12-month timeframe.
• Ensuring financial support will be available from diverse federal, state and local sources and flexibly managed at the local level to meet the needs of children and families in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Operating a system that collects and uses data to accurately forecast the services and supports needed, at the level of intensity and duration required, and at the necessary cost to achieve desired outcomes for each child and family.

Our system of care is family-centered, strength-based and community-driven. We believe that all children have the right to grow up safe, healthy and fulfilled in families that love and nurture them.

Our 10 Principles of Practice are:

• Family Voice and Choice
• Team-Based
• Natural Supports
• Collaboration
• Community-Based
• Culturally Competent
• Individualized
• Strengths-Based
• Persistent/Unconditional
• Outcome-Based

Brevard Family Partnership was established in 2003 as a nonprofit organization in response to Florida’s legislative mandate to privatize foster care and related services (Section 409.986, Florida Statutes). The state’s community-based care philosophy was designed to empower and challenge neighborhoods and local communities to take ownership of meeting the needs of their children and families.

In 2005, the agency was awarded the contract by the Florida Department of Children and Families to serve as the community-based care lead agency managing Brevard County’s child welfare system. Twenty years later, in 2024, the agency expanded its footprint and became Family Partnerships of Central Florida, the child welfare lead agency for Brevard, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. 

Under this mandate, Family Partnerships of Central Florida provides child abuse prevention, foster care, adoption, independent living, and community outreach services to an average of 8,500 Central Florida children and youth each year and more than 2,800 young people on any given day. 

Throughout its history, the agency has consistently ranked among the top-performing community-based care agencies in the state regarding visits to children and families, timely reunification, and exceeding federal measures for placement stability.