Learn More About the Voices’ Team and Operations
Who We Are
Since 2004, Suncoast Voices for Children has worked within the Pinellas Sheriff’s Office’s Child Protection Division to meet the unmet needs of abused and neglected children. Voices was founded by two concerned child advocates that saw the unmet needs of the many vulnerable children involved in the foster care system, so they set up Voices to meet needs immediately when they are identified by the Sheriff’s Office and other community partners to both serve children in foster care and to safely keep kids out of foster care with protective family members. Voices’ Board of Directors has over 300 years of combined experience serving at-risk and abused and neglected children as judges, advocates, teachers, nurses and mentors. Executive Director Andrew Maurin has more than 10 years of experience in child welfare and serves an attorney for children and young adults in foster care in Pinellas and Pasco Counties.
What We’ve Done
Since 2004, Suncoast Voices has raised over $3 million fulfilling the needs of at-risk children in Pinellas & Pasco Counties. In 2019 alone, we have served over 3,000 children who were either in foster care or at risk of entering foster care. We provided 1,000 of them with bedding so they could stay in a safe home, and we provided the other 2,000 with a wide variety of items like eyeglasses, birthday cakes, dance lessons, karate lessons, private tutoring, graduation fees, and more. The needs are not always predictable, but in our entire history, we have met every single request that fits within our mission.
Our Vision
We want to see every child in Pinellas & Pasco Counties enjoy a childhood free from fear and deprivation.
Our Mission
We provide for the unmet physical, psychological, educational, and social needs of abused, abandoned, and neglected children in Pinellas and Pasco Counties.
Our Strategy
Suncoast Voices seeks to:
- prevent children from entering the foster care system by actively working to stabilize families
- protect the innocence, development, safety, and well-being of children currently in the system by advocating for their best interest and offering services/goods like tutoring and car seats
- provide for the needs of children (such as clothes, shoes, and school uniforms) and giving them opportunities to participate in sports, music lessons, summer camps, and other extracurricular activities
Meet The Team

Cynthia B. Faulhaber
Immediate Past President

Carol Dinsdale
Secretary

Kari C. Mainelli
Treasurer
Board Members
The Honorable (Ret.) Frank Quesada
Donna Gaffney – Co-Founder
Rita Becchetti – Guardian ad Litem
Carol Conaway – Guardian ad Litem
Erin Dise – Dise Wealth Management
Ann Michelle Frey – Shorecrest Prepatory School
Tara Gaffney – Former Chicago Public Schools Sit Stay Read Board Member
Holly Magnan – Delta Construction Partners
Program Staff
Amy Baldwin – Director of Children’s Needs
Jeanne Joyner – Director of Financial Empowerment
Andrew Maurin, Esq. – Executive Director
Gina Wilson – Outreach Director
Wendy Woolley – Development Director
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