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Thank you everyone! This year's Children's Week was a tremendous success. It was extremely important to bring the faces of more than 2,000 children and families together to the State Capitol on April 1st to promote collaboration and voice their opinions to the Florida Legislature on behalf of over 80 non-profit, public, private, corporate and philanthropic organizations across the state.

Together with the Florida Children's Summit, Children's Week has proven to be a real symbol for change and collaboration in the State of Florida. The 13^th Annual Children's Week and its over 80 non-profit and corporate partners hope to continue this collaboration and work with the Florida Legislature to once again make our annual "Children's Capitol for a Day" one of the biggest events to take place during Legislative Session.

For those not able to make it to Tallahassee on April 1st, the "Kids Only" Town Hall Meeting featuring student panelists and members of the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet will be broadcast statewide on The Florida Channel - check local cable listings for station in your area.

A couple quick facts about this year's Children's Week:

- Governor Charlie Crist awarded the 2008 Chiles Advocacy Award to Maryann Barry at the Children's Week Advocacy Dinner and Reception. Over 250 representatives from Florida's leading non-profit, corporate, philanthropic and faith based organizations attended the event

- At the Nemours press conference on April 2nd, it was announced that over 8 million steps (8,152,070) were walked for children's issues during the 2008 Legislative session

- More than 200 local events and activities took place statewide in all 67 Florida counties, Events are still taking place in communities across the state, please visit http://childrensweek.org/community/index.htm for the complete listing

- Comcast Newsmakers conducted over 50 live interviews with legislators, policy makers, advocates and youth at the State Capitol on April 1st. The interviews will be broadcast on CNN Headline News and Comcast Newsmakers, and posted on the website shortly.

- At the Children's Week press conference, Lt. Governor Kottkamp, with a signed proclamation from Governor Charlie Crist, announced Sunday, April 6th as "Parents' and Children's Day" throughout the state

- 1,500 healthy boxed lunches and refreshments were given out during the Children's Capitol for a Day on April 1st by Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Crispers Restaurants

- Over 100,000 paper cut-outs of children's hands were displayed in the Capitol Rotunda from Sunday, March 30 to Friday, April 4th.

Stay tuned to for more news, information and updates. Please send any news, summaries and pictures of your Children's Week activities to jason@childrensweek.org.