 Lakeland campus Address: 1015 Sikes Blvd., Lakeland, Fla. 33815
Fax: (863) 284-5684
Phone: (863) 688-4981
e-mail
Administrator: Eron Green
Opened: 1948
County: Polk
Acres: Approximately 35
Children's residential-care cottages: 3 (Miller/Dorothy, Mabry/Curls, and Denham/Tate residences)
Children's emergency shelters: 2 (Bonniville and King residences)
Children's ages: School-age children, through high school
Additional facilities: (1) An 11,000-square-foot multi-purpose building, known as the "Mildred W. Carlton Learning Center" that includes a library, tutoring areas, arts & crafts rooms, a half-court gymnasium, and an office, (2) a home known as the "Sonshine Residence" for up to six developmentally delayed adult women, (3) a swimming pool and picnic shelter, (4) a storage building, (5) a maintenance shop, and (6) a chapel.
Maximum number of children: 54
Services offered: residential care, emergency shelter care, adoptions, foster care, continuing education, transition to independent living, referrals, maternity care counseling, developmental services ministry.
Florida Baptist Children's Homes originated in Arcadia in 1904, but relocated to Lakeland in 1948. Like the Arcadia facility before it, the Lakeland campus has a long and proud history of helping a lot of boys and girls at a time in their lives when they were most in need.
Are you a former resident of Florida Baptist Children's Homes? If so, you may want to catch up with some old friends. Check out our list of former residents' e-mail addresses, and list your own so that others may find you.
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