August 30, 2023

More After-School Choices Initiative Lists 500+ Programs on 211Miami.org *

The Children's Trust, Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and Jewish Community Services (JCS) 211 Miami Helpline are proud to announce the More After-School Choices Initiative, a centralized website and phone number to browse over 500 free or low-cost after-school programs. 

Dial 211 or visit www.211miami.org/AfterSchool to find 100s of options for after-school programs in Miami-Dade County.

Important Information Regarding ORF and Maze Literacy Outcome Assessment Courses from Project RISE

As of Monday, August 21, the Literacy Outcome Assessment: Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) and Literacy Outcome Assessment: Maze courses have been replaced with updated versions of these courses.

If you have an incomplete, older version of the course under My Courses, you will need to add the new version of the course from the Trust Academy Course Catalog, then take that course. Attempting to complete an older version of the course will likely lead to technical issues.

Important Information Regarding Social Emotional Learning Outcome Assessment Courses

If your program has chosen to use any of the Social Emotional Learning Outcome Assessments (Child Trends Survey, PYDI, or YAPS), please note that as of this writing, the old versions of the SEL Outcome Assessment courses have been removed from Trust Academy and have been replaced with the following, updated courses:

• SEL Outcome Assessment: PYDI Grades 6-12
• SEL Outcome Assessment: The Child Trends Survey Grades K-5
• SEL Outcome Assessment: YAPS Grades 6-12

If you have an incomplete, older version of the course under My Courses, you will need to add the new version of the course from the Trust Academy Course Catalog, then take the course. Attempting to complete an older version of the course will likely lead to technical issues. To avoid any issues, please make sure the title of the course you are taking begins with, "SEL Outcome Assessment:"

Strategic Communications Planning Trainings from YWCA South Florida

4-Hour Intensive Workshop for Mid-Level Communicators

Enrich your skills in a four-hour in-person workshop for mid-level nonprofit communicators. Craft strategic PR plans, engage stakeholders effectively, and address unique challenges through interactive exercises and peer discussions. Elevate fundraising, stakeholder relations, and mission advancement with newfound expertise. Register for this event taking place September 27 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. from YWCA South Florida by logging into Trust Academy LMS in Trust Central. 

Executive Roundtable For Senior Communication Leaders

Experience a confidential 1.5-hour executive roundtable for senior communication leaders, providing strategic insights, idea generation and peer learning to tackle organizational challenges. Gain invaluable tools to navigate tough communication scenarios, balance strategic focus with daily demands, and become the unwavering trusted advisor your organization seeks. The event will take place September 28, from 9-10:30 a.m. Register for this event taking place from YWCA South Florida by logging into Trust Academy LMS in Trust Central. 

Upcoming UM Team COACH Trainings

Support for Parenting Program Providers

Communities of Practice

1. Parent and Provider Stressors & Barriers: This CoP is held on the first Wednesday of each month from 10-11 a.m. 
2. Recruitment, Outreach & Creating Support Networks: This CoP is held on the first Thursday of each month from 11 a.m.- noon

Coaching and Consultation

Are you a Parenting Program provider interested in individualized coaching and/or consultation? Click here to fill out our Coaching Request Form or email us at teamcoach@miami.edu.

Support for All Providers

Online Courses

1. Identifying your Strengths and Boosting your Wellbeing
2. Defining Your Problems and Enhancing Your Perspective-Taking Skills
3. Your Guided Path to Generating, Evaluating, Implementing and Troubleshooting Solutions
4. Developing Your Guided Path to Wellness: Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior

Hundreds of kids and teens in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties are in need of safe, loving homes through no fault of their own due to abuse, neglect and/or abandonment. Citrus Family Care Network is looking for people who want to change the life of a child. Open your home and your heart, "Become a Foster Parent."



For more information call 1.855.786.KIDS (5437), or Kimberly Lopez at 786.562.8758, email klopez@citrusfcn.com, or visit:

The Children's Trust is proud of the hundreds of organizations, businesses and entities that make up our Provider Network. To that end, we will be periodically highlighting them in a section of our Weekly Provider Bulletin simply named Provider Spotlight. See the impact of the work of your fellow providers and to submit an organization for consideration, nominate them in the Provider Bulletin form, with the following information: Name, Services Provided, With Trust Since, Website/Contact Information, Communities Served, and Number of Sites.

Learn more about The Trust's providers in our special weekly social media posts entitled Trust Tuesday (#TrustTuesday)

enFAMILIA, Inc.

enFAMILIA is a grassroots organization with deep connections in the community. Over the past 23 years, enFAMILIA has embedded itself within the farmworker community, solidifying its role as a dependable ally for families in need. It's goal is to provide social-educational programs to help improve and preserve family life for a large population of farmworkers and low-income families living in Deep South Miami-Dade.

Spirit Alegre, a mother of three who participated in enFAMILIA programs in her youth, credits her positive experiences with the organization with helping her learn skills and stay safe. As a result, she has consistently turned to enFAMILIA’s support network for her family. She also emphasizes a significant strategy enFAMILIA employs: hiring program participants as they transition out of programming. This approach provides stable employment opportunities for students after high school and also furnishes children and youth entering the program with positive role models to look up to.

Learn more by visiting: www.enfamiliafla.com.

Deadline Extended for Catalyst Miami Fall 2023 Leadership Programs *

CLEAR Miami

CLEAR (Community Leadership on the Environment, Advocacy, and Resilience) is a 10-week program that provides participants with the groundwork to become climate justice educators, leaders and innovators in their own communities and beyond.  

Dates:

Tuesdays, August 29 - October 31.

Deadline to Apply is Friday, September 1.

HEAL Miami

HEAL (Housing Equity, Advocacy, and Leadership) is a free 7-week program in which participants develop leadership skills and a deep understanding of the history of housing advocacy, cutting-edge solutions, and how to get involved locally.

Dates:

Thursdays, August 31 - October 12.

The deadline to apply is Friday, September 1.

Cutler Bay Mini-Grants Available Through Community Fund

The Town of Cutler Bay established the Community Fund to improve the quality of life of the Town’s residents. The Community Fund supports only nonprofit organizations that help, assist and serve the citizens and/or community of the Town of Cutler Bay. Grant awards: $500 - $2,500. Priority areas: education, environment, culture, social services, and other philanthropic activities Grant Cycle Deadline Sept. 15. Click below for more information and to apply:

Re-envisioning Authentic Voice Through the Lens of Critical Self-Reflection Workshop

This training is provided by the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health (FAIMH) and is open to anyone providing or interested in providing reflective supervision/consultation to others. Participants will build the critical self-awareness needed to re-envision their authentic voice to leverage current opportunities in their role as a reflective supervisor to increase racial and socio-cultural awareness in themselves and their supervises in this new and shifting landscape. Join today! Late registration prices start September 4. To register click below:

Remember, K-12 Students Get Half-Off Miami-Dade Transit Fares

K-12 students get half off Miami-Dade Transit fare! Parents, register your child for the K-12 EASY Card just in time for back to school. Learn more about the program and apply online by visiting link below:

Free Prevention Education Webinars from Kristi House

Register today for a free, live webinar to learn more about child abuse, trauma, and exploitation from Kristi House:

• Children and Traumatic Stress: September 9, November 9
• What Every Adult Needs to Know About Child Sexual Abuse: September 19
• Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: September 21

Register below:

Available Positions at The Children's Trust

Communications Specialist - $48,668 Annual

The Communications Specialist is responsible for assisting the Communications team with digital and traditional media, with a primary focus on social media and website content updates. The Communications Specialist will be the primary developer of social media content as directed by the Associate Director of Communications under the general guidance of the Director of Communications. Under the guidance of the Associate Director of Communications and working closely with the Media Manager, the incumbent will have creative latitude to develop visual, graphic and written content for social media and will assist with web content updates, as needed. The incumbent will also support the Communications team with administrative duties, as assigned

Business Controller - $85,120-148,961 Annual

The Business Controller is responsible for overseeing the financial operations of The Children' Trust. This includes, but is not limited to, the supervision of the work performed by the Accountants, Senior Accounting Analysts, Accounting Operations Manager and Fiscal Data Integrity Analyst of The Children’s Trust in accordance with The Children’s Trust (The Trust) procurement and accounting policies and procedures, Generally Accepted Principles (GAAP), regulations promulgated by the Governmental Accounting Standards (GASB) and Government Auditing Standards. As directed by the Finance Director, the Business Controller will be engaged in key functions such as planning, managing, monitoring and evaluating the fiscal activities and functions of The Trust and its service providing organizations to ensure that daily and long term financial activities and controls are created and maintained to achieve organizational objective and safeguard assets.

Research & Evaluation Analyst (Early Childhood and/or Family Support Services) - $55,968-58,468 Annual

The Research and Evaluation Analyst is a critical member of both cross- and inter-departmental teams at The Children’s Trust who engages in proactive problem-solving and critical thinking/analysis related to the design and effectiveness of various child, youth and family services. Primary responsibilities include: contributing to effective program and systems designs for The Children’s Trust’s priority investments in child, youth and family services; designing and maintaining sound data collection tools and systems to capture meaningful program, operational and community data in a user-friendly, accessible manner; and analyzing and making meaning from available data to tell our stories using compelling visualizations and reports, with an intentional focus on the specific audience and purpose of the message.

Available Positions at Miami Music Project *

Director of Development *

The Director of Development (DoD) has overall responsibility for achieving the organization's fundraising goals as well as maintaining and deepening Miami Music Project's authentic relationships and reputation in ways that reflect and are aligned with our organizational values. As an integral member of the Leadership Team, the DoD will help maintain overall organizational health and effectiveness.

Grants & Development Manager *

The Grant & Development Manager will function as a capacity builder for the development team through grant seeking, writing and reporting, management of the donor database and timely donor acknowledgments, helping prepare compelling reports for funders, and providing general support to the development department.

Site Managers *

They are hiring Site Managers for our locations in Little Haiti and Miami Beach. Site Managers ensure the highest quality of leadership, community-specific cultural sensibilities, and management of students and staff, as well as oversee and support students and Teaching Artists by responding to the needs of each constituent in collaboration with the program director and program manager.

For more email hiring@miamimusicproject.org or click below:

Job Fair at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami *

Those seeking employment are cordially invited to attend Catholic Charities of The Archdiocese of Miami, Inc for a Job Fair! Catholic Charities is a nonprofit organization with programs in Early Childhood Education, Temporary Housing Assistance, Emergency Services and Substance Abuse. To be held on Wednesday, September 6, at Notre Dame in the Parish Hall, 130 NE 62 Street, Miami, FL 33138. From: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is a $1,000 hiring incentive given as a sign-on bonus for teaching staff.

Available Positions at Richmond Perrine Optimist Club

The Richmond Perrine Optimist Club is accepting resumes within its Parent Support Program for full-time parenting specialist to facilitate the Nurturing Parenting Program, full-time data entry/ linkperson (combined position), part-time linkperson, and other volunteer positions. Please call 305.233.9325 or send resumes to email below:

Advocacy Network on Disabilities Looking for Director of Family Development Initiatives

Are you looking for a great place to work that makes a difference? Advocacy Network on Disabilities is the place for you. It is looking for a director, Family Development Initiatives. The position is responsible for the day-to-day implementation, supervision and oversight of all programs providing direct services to children with disabilities, their families and adults with developmental disabilities. Assists ACT team in providing clinically related trainings and information to providers and the community.

Training and Experience Requirements: Masters level licensed social worker or mental health professional. Minimum of 2 years of supervisory experience working with families who have children with disabilities and knowledge of local community strongly preferred. Excellent communication and organizational skills. Bilingual English-Spanish required. Salary range: $63,000 - $66,000. They offer 100% employer-paid medical benefits, 12 paid holidays and 18 days PTO.

Those interested should mail resume to email below:

Available Positions at Breakthrough Miami

Development Director

The Development Director will support the advancement functions of the organization, including building, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding a portfolio of donors for annual and multi-year gifts. The Director will focus on growing corporate giving. Responsibilities will include direct fundraising, fundraising activities coordination, stewardship and advancement-related administrative support in order to strengthen our work with donors and partners, thereby advancing mission, programs and impact. 

The successful candidate will be authentically committed to mission, and be a strategic, flexible, and positive thinker responsible for direct fundraising.

Assistant Site Director

The Assistant Site Director (ASD) is responsible for the efficient and effective delivery of programs and services that most directly affect Breakthrough Miami Scholars and families. An ASD oversees campus or site logistics, unpaid student volunteers and some stipended positions, such as Teaching Fellows. As an ambassador of the program, the ASD builds supportive relationships with students, parents, schools, the community and other stakeholders to ensure the academic and socio-enrichment success of all Breakthrough Scholars.  

The individual in this role is organized, self-motivated and collaborative, with strong communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Site Director

The Site Director manages the staff and day-to-day operations of the school-year and summer programs at one of Breakthrough Miami’s six host school sites. This position is responsible for ensuring all program operations are aligned with Breakthrough Miami’s vision, mission and goals; and for continuously improving educational enrichment and operational processes.

The individual in this role is able to operate effectively in diverse environments, achieve outcomes in a flexible, fast-paced environment, lead change and inspire others to action, and communicate consistently and effectively.

Drector, BreakthroughU - College Access

The Director, BreakthroughU – College Access oversees all activities that support high school student college-preparedness, including all BreakthroughU site programs. The director will build relationships with students, parents, and key high school and college partners to help students build the life and leadership skills necessary to enroll in competitive colleges and pursue career goals. The Director plays a leadership role in developing program, and research partnerships with the University of Miami, and maintains mechanisms for ongoing engagement of BTM college-based alumni.

For more detailed information on any of the job listed for Breakthrough Miami, please visit the Breakthrough Miami Careers page.  

HOW TO APPLY: Please send a cover letter and resume to the attention of Nicole Gray, Business Manager at careers@breakthroughmiami.org.