Contact Info
Program provides home visiting parenting and support services to families that live in Manatee County. To be eligible for the program, families must enroll with Healthy Families Manatee prenatally or before the child is three months of age.
Service Output: Training
Hours Available: Monday-Friday and other days as necessary
Eligibility:
- Manatee County parents and families of children prenatal through age five
- Must be enrolled before child is three months of age
Service Operators
Step Up Suncoast
Step Up Suncoast, formerly known as Manatee Community Action Agency, Inc. and Manatee Opportunity Council, Inc., was incorporated in 1968 as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to Florida law and was designated by the Governor as the community action agency for its service area.Step Up Suncoast received its first grant of $90,000 in 1965 and was administered by Suncoast Progress of St. Petersburg, Florida. This relationship was maintained until the incorporation of the Agency in 1968.Since its beginning in 1968, Step Up Suncoast has grown from a summer project of serving 510 children with 34 staff members and a $90,000 budget to over 11,000 services annually, 250 staff members and an annual budget of $18,000,000.