LAKELAND | A new law is seen as a boon
to recruitment and retention of Florida's Guardian Ad Litem program, which
provides paid and volunteer advocates for thousands of children caught up in the
state's child welfare system.
The evolving nature of the program finds guardians filling an expanded role, mentoring abused and neglected minors and helping their caretakers navigate the ins and outs of state bureaucracies.
Building relationships, a tenet of the guardian's responsibility, has been hampered by an inability to transport children in their private vehicles, advocates say.
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