The Miami-Dade Grade Level Reading Campaign encourages you to sign up for the Florida Grade Level Reading Campaign's free webinars to support early reading presented by Dr. Paige Pullen from the Lastinger Center at the University of Florida. The intended audience is pre-K to 3rd grade after-school staff, summer learning staff, reading volunteers, paraprofessionals, etc. Certificates of participation will be provided at the end of each 1-hour webinar.

The 10:30 a.m., January 15 session is entitled "Selecting Books to Maximize Students' Reading Practice" while the 10:30 a.m. February 19 session is entitled "What is Phonological Awareness Anyway? Fun Games to Improve Students' Early Reading Development."

Sign up below:

Youth Development and Family Services providers now have access to new Program Participation metrics- Retention and Engagement in Trust Central. The retention and engagement metrics will help provide a comprehensive view of program participation by measuring the level of engagement or if participants received the dosage expected to see an impact. Additionally, depending on the initiative, providers have access to data at different levels including contract, site, activity and participant. These new updates are now available through the grids in the Trust Central Metrics Module. New resources are now available including videos and guides to help you better understand this new information. If you have questions, please reach out to your program manager.

For new Retention and Engagement Resources, click below.

Register, get Zoom access info, or take a course, by signing into your Trust Academy account.

Always available online: Discovering Inclusion and Successful Inclusion of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Part 1

Looking for coaching, technical assistance or other help with inclusion? Contact your Inclusion Specialist. Not sure who it is? E-mail hgood@advocacynetwork.org.

Childhood injury prevention capacity-building efforts facilitated by the Public Health Trust's Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Miami are offered to all Trust-funded providers via Zoom. Visit The Children's Trust Academy for full descriptions, meeting info and registration information.

Project RISE can purchase materials for programs, deliver them and provide staff with coaching designed to best utilize these materials. For more information, please fill out the Request Coaching Assistance form here.

Are you providing children and youth with authentic, meaningful choices throughout your program? Does your program reflect the input of the youth involved? Participants will learn how to provide meaningful choices within activities and opportunities for youth input within the youth program itself. Take a plan to implement back to your program and learn more about items on the SEL-PQA that will help you increase your CAT scores. The training takes place January 26, from 11a.m.- 1 p.m.

Register for this training on Trust Academy in order to receive the Zoom meeting link.

Trust-funded programs and initiatives throughout the community have been doing inspiring, life-changing and heroic work to provide for the children and families of Miami-Dade during the coronavirus pandemic. Please continue the good work and make sure to share their stories social media while tagging us. Also, don't forget to email your stories and latest triumphs!

The Children's Trust is seeking to fill a Program Manager position. This position is responsible for administering and monitoring contracts for various early childhood programs and services throughout Miami-Dade County that are funded by The Children's Trust.

The Center for Social Change (C4SC) is a nonprofit coworking space for visionaries who are changing the world. In this position, you will support the Finance Director in managing/handling our organization’s books and supporting our members and team with their billing and financial requests. This is currently a part-time position starting at 20 hours per week.

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet is currently seeking a Site Director for their after school program and 8-week summer camp. The Site Director is responsible for creating a positive and fun atmosphere; building positive relationships between families while consistently recruiting and retaining student engagement. The Site Director must have basic computer skills; the ability to establish positive leadership with the administrative staff; and possess excellent communication skills.

T​homas Armour Youth Ballet seeks an experienced and dynamic​ Administrative Assistant to be the coordinating force in a highly active dance training and youth empowerment after school programs in five locations across Miami-Dade. This is a full-time position working out of the South Miami administrative office.

To apply, send resume and a cover letter to the email below.

Are you a parent or a caregiver of someone living with a mental health condition? If you are willing to share your story with other family members, don’t miss the opportunity of becoming a presenter for NAMI’s “Ending The Silence” program. Help us grow the movement to end the mental health stigma!

Joining our team is easy: no public speaking experience necessary, free training, and flexibility to make your own presentation hours over Zoom.

For more information call 786.308.9680 or write below:

For complete job listing, descriptions, requirements and to apply, visit CAREERBUILDER and CAREERROOKIE and/or e-mail resume and cover letter by clicking below.

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