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About GCKH Helping families in Pensacola and Escambia County
Gulf Coast Kid's House is a children's advocacy center serving Escambia County. As a children's advocacy center, we combine all of the professionals and resources needed for the intervention, investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases under one child-friendly facility. Child victims and their families also receive mental health counseling at our center. The goal of Gulf Coast Kid's House is to form a more collaborative response to child abuse cases so that we can improve case outcomes and minimize trauma to the children and families we serve.
Our Vision:
The vision of Gulf Coast Kid’s House is to provide a place where child protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, medical and mental health professionals' work together under one roof to provide comprehensive services.
Our Mission:
Facilitate the investigation, prosecution, and treatment of child abuse and neglect and promote child abuse prevention awareness through community education.
Our Goals:
- Provide a child-friendly facility to serve abused children and their families in a neutral environment.
- Minimize trauma to child abuse victims by streamlining the intervention process.
- Develop formal, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary responses to child abuse, which will meet the needs of both child victims and their families.
- Educate the community of child abuse issues and enlisting support to help prevent child abuse.
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Board Of Directors
- Olevia McNally, Chair - EmCare
- David Peaden II -Chair Elect- Home Builders Association of West Florida
- Keith Weidner, Immediate Past Chair - Taylor, Warren and Weidner PA
- John Adams - Parliamentarian Beggs & Lane
- Ellen Kent - Secretary
- Kathleen Baldwin, Treasurer
- Keith Hoskins, At Large - Gulf Power Company
- Teri Levin, At Large - Levin Investment/Island Resort
- Nikki Bell - Morette Company
- Amy Connally
- Susan Davis
- Shawn Dominguez - Dominguez Design-Build
- April Knowles
- Lisa Nellessen-Savage - Pensacola News Journal
- Kelly MacLeod- Fundraising Chair - Bella Magazine
- Jeanne Prange
- Debbie Ritchie - Studer Group
- Sally Rosendahl
- Thomas St. Myer - University of West Florida
- Sherri Swann - Lutheran Services Florida
- Todd Thomson - Greater Pensacola Chamber
- Joe Vinson - Akabaka
- Leslie Yandle - Yandle Consulting
Board of Directors - Emeritus
- Malcolm Ballinger - Ballinger Publishing
- Catherine Gallagher - Community Volunteer
- Nancy Halford - NAI Halford Real Estate
- Dean Hinton - M.D. News Gulf Coast
- Tip McAlpin - McAlpin Interiors
- Sandy Sansing - Sansing Automotive
- Anne Patterson - State Attorney's Office
- Pam Schwartz - Retired Educator
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