Inside the Mission: Youth of the Year

August 21, 2024

Port St. Lucie – JaMar King, a CCKids youth representative for a statewide advocacy organization for children and teens in foster care, has been named the 2024 Florida Youth Shine Youth of the Year.

King will be honored in October at the organization's Youth of the Year Program, at the National Croquet Center in West Palm Beach.

King has been an active member of the Treasure Coast chapter of Florida Youth Shine for two years and has advocated at both the state Department of Children and Families' Annual Summit and during Children's Week at the (state) Capital.