
Nina Culver is a Guardian Ad Litem GALP 17th District Broward County, Florida
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Trained and certified, court-appointed volunteer who serves as a voice for abused, neglected and abandoned children in dependency court. I currently hold fifteen training certificates, two include sexual abuse.
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Help to find relatives and friends for placement to reduce the trauma of being in a new and unfamiliar environment; fought to keep siblings together and ensure that visitations and phone contact occur regularly with healthy and supportive relatives.
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Investigated and advocated for the children’s medical and educational situations, ensuring that their needs are addressed expeditiously.
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Work to ensure normalcy by looking out for the children’s social and emotional well-being, making certain they are involved in recreational activities. Such as music, sports, and other healthy activities to help empower them to develop their full potential.
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Submit best interest recommendations (briefs) to the court.
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Nina Culver volunteers at an Animal Rescue
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Application Processing
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Completed hard background checks; interviews of all Veterinarians, HOA's, Employers, and References.
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Attempted to Foster dog's, but tended to adopt them instead.
Community Initiatives & Advocacy
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Nina Culver is a board member of Margate Neighbors Corp, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for socio-economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Through initiatives that support children's education, school readiness, and increased access to healthy food in underserved communities, Mrs Culver remains committed to fostering a stronger, healthier community.
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Nina Culver serves as a board member and community advocate for Oceans Charter School, a tuition-free public charter school committed to academic excellence and student success through marine studies. In this role, she helps guide the school's mission, ensuring innovative educational opportunities and strong community engagement to benefit students and families.
How Nina serves our community
Nina Culver volunteers in Community Building and created "Margate Neighbors" on Facebook
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Digging deep into the issues and coming up with feasible and smart solutions to help the community.
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Successfully worked with other community groups and a 501 3c to pull off a large scale toy drive that was city wide in 3 months benefiting 1,700 children and their families.
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Earning the support of the community, by growing the group to almost 20,000 local members in 4 years.
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The group is for those who want to make a difference in their community.
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Continually facilitating the group in food drives, community clean up, school supplies for 5 schools. backpacks to first responders for children being removed from their homes; to benefit a total of 5 cities.
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Continually supporting our local businesses in their events, advertisements, and volunteering as needed.
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"Everyone has a 'heart tug' for something, a passion. Start volunteering there." -Nina Culver