District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order denying placement to a developmentally disabled child on a "crisis tier" of a waiting list for services through the developmental services home and community based waiver program administered by appellee-agency is reversed where the child could not be denied crisis status as a matter of law solely because she was a foster child entitled to certain services under state law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/08/2006
• Published 05/09/2006

Judges

• VAN NORTWICK, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paolo Annino, Mary Clark and Carol Gregg, Tallahassee, Florida State University College of Law, Children's Advocacy Center, Tallahassee, for Appellant., Nancy W. Gregoire of Bunnell, Woulfe, Kirschbaum, Keller, McIntyre, Gregoire & Klein, P.A., Fort Lauderdale;  Andrea Moore, Executive Director, Florida's Children First, Coral Springs;  Bernard P. Perlmutter, Director and Assistant Clinical Professor, UM School of Law Children & Youth Law Clinic, Coral Gables;  Hubert Grissom, General Counsel and Gayle Miller, Senior Attorney, Advocacy Center for Persons With Disabilities, Inc., Tampa;  Jodi Siegel, Executive Director, Southern Legal Counsel, Inc., Gainesville;  Anne Swerlick, Deputy Director, Florida Legal Services, Inc., Tallahassee, for Amici Curiae., Dennis W. Moore, General Counsel and Thomas Wade Young, Appellate Counsel, Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office, Orlando, for Amicus Curiae, Florida Guardian Ad Litem Program.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katie George, District Legal Counsel and Eric D. Schurger, Assistant District Legal Counsel, Department of Children and Families, Local Counsel for the Agency for Persons With Disabilities, Pensacola, for Appellee.