City officials have identified 17 priority areas that lack access to healthy food. Those neighborhoods, primarily in South St. Petersburg, have more convenience stores than all other food resources combined.
Residents in the priority areas have disproportionately higher obesity and diabetes rates. Nearly 90% of public school children qualify for free and reduced-cost lunch.
CareerSource Hillsborough Pinellas, the newly merged workforce development agency for the Tampa Bay area, will convene the region's first Opportunity Youth Workforce Summit.
The summit, scheduled for Oct. 1 at the Tampa Marriott Water Street, was created to address the challenges faced by “opportunity youth” disconnected from employment and education in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.
As executive director of the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Christine Renc-Carter oversees one of the most impressive collections of modern and contemporary art in Florida.