Press Release: Escambia Children’s Trust Releases A to Z
Comprehensive Family Resource Guide for Escambia County
Pensacola, FL, April 5, 2023 – Today the Escambia Children’s Trust published its first comprehensive Family Resource Guide for children and families seeking services in Escambia County. The guide is a 68-page directory that includes hundreds of resource listings organized alphabetically in English and Spanish by topic areas, such as “abuse,” “family support,” and “youth development.”
The guide also includes advertisements from more than a dozen local partners; a comprehensive ABC listing of early childhood education locations across the county; and a six-page insert that serves as a guide to navigating resources offered by Escambia County Public Schools.
“This is a first-of-its-kind resource directory explicitly targeting children and families residing in Escambia County. There is nothing like this out there right now, and we are proud of our Board of Directors for recognizing the importance of putting a publication of this magnitude into the hands of those who need it most,” said Tammy Greer, Executive Director of the Escambia Children’s Trust. “The guide will help parents, families, counselors, child-serving organizations, and so many others identify important benefits and services available to children and their loved ones in our community. I hope you’ll find this guide useful when making decisions for your children and planning for the future.”
Kessler Creative, a direct marketing agency based in Jacksonville, was awarded the bid to produce the Family Resource Guide in October 2022. Over the course of six months, ECT staff worked with several partners to refine and fact-check resource listings and researched additional services to include in the directory. ECT is grateful to the partners who contributed listings, including the Early Learning Coalition of Escambia County; the United Way of West Florida and 2-1-1 Northwest Florida; and FindHelp.org, which contracts with the Florida Department of Children and Families to connect people to an online directory of food pantries, medical care, and other services.
The full resource guide is available to view on the Escambia Children’s Trust website. Please click Family Resource Guide to access the document.
The resource guide will be distributed through a wide variety of channels. If your organization would like printed copies of the guide, please email info@EscambiaChildrensTrust.org. Up to 200 physical copies can be picked up, via prior arrangement, at the Escambia Children’s Trust offices.
