Amanda Prater is stepping down from her position as Chief of Staff for the Florida Department of Children and Families.
Prater’s resignation comes in the wake of a building controversy connected to the deaths of four children under DCR supervision in six weeks in May and June.
According to high-ranking source within the department, Prater is leaving to pursue opportunities in the private sector.
A second source says Prater will be replaced by Jane Johnson, the Director of Child Abuse Prevention at DCF.
Prater was tapped last August to replace Vivian Myrtetus.
Prater had served as Legislative Affairs Director. Previous to that, she worked as a health and human services analyst in the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget, the Governor’s Legislative Affairs Office, the Florida House Majority Office, and the House Health and Human Services Committee.
