Florida’s Children First (FCF), the statewide advocacy organization focused on protecting the legal rights of at-risk and foster care children, had a very successful Miami-Dade awards reception last week. Dozens of community and business leaders, and all other persons concerned about the future of Florida’s abused, abandoned and neglected children,... View Article
Florida’s privatized system of foster care is still failing our children. This documentary, which aired at the Palm Beach film festival, tells the story of many children who have fallen through the cracks of Florida’s experiment and who have been physically, sexually and emotionally abused in the system that was... View Article
Talenfeld Law, Florida’s only law firm dedicated exclusively to protecting abused, disabled and injured children, has opened an office in Daytona Beach. Attorney Lisa M. Elliott will lead the office, and becomes the firm’s fifth lawyer. Ms. Elliott will now devote her practice to protecting these very special children throughout... View Article
Attorneys who claimed millions of Florida children had failed to receive medical check-ups under Medicaid reached a milestone settlement with the state in the class-action lawsuit. The agreement followed federal lawsuits that claimed the children didn’t receive medical or dental care. In 2014, the judge in the case agreed with... View Article
Howard M. Talenfeld. A leading Florida foster care abuse attorney and life-long advocate for children’s rights, recently was awarded the University of Miami Law Alumni Association’s Alumni Achievement Award. Talenfeld was recognized for his tireless efforts on behalf of society’s most vulnerable citizens. Watch this brief video from the award... View Article
The headline in the New York Daily News said it all: “Agency responsible for placing foster children with accused perv previously sent kid to foster parent that tortured them.” The agency had a history of placing foster kids with abusers. The nonprofit agency, SCO, sent foster kids to Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu,... View Article