The state reached a settlement with troubled Tampa Bay Academy that allows its mental health center to admit children if it pays a $50,000 fine and meets every standard set by regulators. ...more

January 16, 2009

The state has reached a settlement with the troubled Tampa Bay Academy, which will be allowed to admit patients into its long-term mental health care program when it shows it meets every standard set by regulators. ...more

January 15, 2009

The official rebuke to the troubled Tampa Bay Academy comes at 5 p.m. today – the time when state regulators said they will suspend the academy's license for what they called "gross mismanagement" of mental health care. Barring a last-minute decision – the academy's executives have appealed to regulators with an improvement plan – the for-profit mental health center in Riverview will no longer be able to provide long-term residential care to children and teenagers who suffer from severe mental illness. ...more

January 9, 2009

Tampa Bay Academy officials are trying to stop the state from suspending their license, despite accusations that they exposed their workers and the children in their care to danger. ...more

December 19, 2008

State investigators ordered the removal of 54 children and teenagers from the Tampa Bay Academy in Riverview after finding the academy failed to protect its residents and staff from "known and obvious dangerous behaviors." ...more

December 18, 2008

State investigators have found "substandard conditions" at the Tampa Bay Academy in Riverview and ordered the removal of 54 children and teenagers from the academy's residential treatment program. ...more

December 17, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The Children's Home and the Sweetwater Organic Community Farm have been chosen as finalists for the Tampa Bay Business Journal's third annual Nonprofit of the Year award. ...more

May 28, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - The Children's Home and the Sweetwater Organic Community Farm have been chosen as finalists for the Tampa Bay Business Journal's third annual Nonprofit of the Year award. ...more

May 28, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY The Children's Home is now $107,000 richer, thanks to the success of two recent events. The 26th Annual Heroes' Golf Tournament held April 28 at the Avila Golf and Country Club raised $66,000; while the 22nd Annual Star Power Fashion show at The Renaissance Vinoy Hotel in St. Petersburg, raised $41,000 on April 24. ...more

May 6, 2008

Shane Rupple thinks the justice system has failed his daughter. Just five months ago, 16-year-old Victoria Rupple pleaded guilty to trying to drown her younger brother in the bathtub during a game of "cops and robbers." She was sentenced to a minimum of nine months in a residential treatment program and five years of probation. ...more

January 16, 2008