FCS Staff
Florida Andrews, FCS Director
As director of MCCD's Family and Community Services (FCS) division, Florida oversees all MCCD programming for the children of offenders. Since 1990, she has helped FCS grow from a one-person operation to a fully staffed multi-service division of MCCD, located in Wayne County. Florida serves on a number of statewide corrections committees, including the MPRI taskforce and the Michigan Department of Corrections Children and Families committee. She is an affiliate member of the Michigan State Bar Association, and active in the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates and Michigan Specialists. Florida has worked on a number of death penalty cases; the highest profile case being out of Baltimore, Maryland, which became a made-for-television movie. Florida’s work with children and families received national recognition when she and her program featured on the major TV network news show, 48 hours.
Dawn Taylor, FCS Case Manager
Dawn has been with MCCD’s Family and Community Services division since 1991. Dawn served as the Transportation Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator. Dawn’s responsibilities include overseeing the Saturday visits and coordinating and training driver and or escort teams who transport the 25-30 children visiting their mothers each Saturday. Dawn is the evening “on call” Case Manager who handles the Needs Assessments of the non-Wayne County clients and transports clients to various meetings and appointments, etc. Dawn facilitates the support groups for the children and transfers information to the Case Manager of the pertinent case. Dawn has a background in Human Resources and attended Michigan State University; graduating in 1987 and continues to pursue a higher education degree at the University of Michigan.
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