While there are many individual “champions” and providers working to improve child health every day in Florida, state agencies and their local counterparts guide the state's progress in public health. State agencies serve to provide information to the public on health care, monitor the health status of populations and the incidence of diseases or conditions that may cause diseases, and request resources annually to ensure access to vital health services. The state legislature vests the following agencies with statutory authority for child health in Florida:

• Department of Health: County Health Departments, children with special health care needs, emergency care, environmental health, Healthy Start, immunizations, injury prevention, Florida KidCare outreach, licensure of medical professionals, nutrition programs and services (WIC, child care food program), school health, vital statistics and epidemiological studies
• Agency for Health Care Administration: Medicaid funding and policy, Florida KidCare Insurance funding
• Department of Children and Families: Medicaid enrollment, developmental disabilities, mental health, child abuse, substance abuse, domestic violence
• Department of Education: School health, special education, and the school lunch program
• Department of Insurance: Private sector child and family health insurance regulation

It is recommended that Florida communities create local task forces of key community-based organizations, health care providers and public health officials to implement strategies to improve the health of Florida's children and youth. Among the many stakeholders that may be helpful partners are:

Families Pediatric and family health care providers Child care providers Resource and referral agencies Head Start and Early Head Start Local hospitals and clinics County health departments Community health centers School readiness groups Faith based organizations Children's Medical Services

Florida Child Find Healthy Start Healthy Families Florida Youth abstinence and pregnancy support projects Infant, child and youth mental health advocates and providers Injury, youth suicide, and violence prevention organizations School health community projects Community alliances for child protection

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely absence of disease or infirmity.”

— World Health Organization 1948