The 2020 Champions for Children Awards virtual ceremony has been scheduled for 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9. The Children's Trust will be celebrating those making a difference in the lives of children and families throughout Miami-Dade County.

For more information, including sponsorships, visit www.thechildrenstrust.org/champions.

The Reading Explorers Program (REP) is ​available to support ​virtual, in-person, and hybrid after school programs! REP coaches offer support in ​all areas of delivering ​engaging quality literacy instruction. ​REP coaches can help with ​reviewing ORF/MAZE scores, organizing DLI groups, and providing large- and small-group literacy resources and ideas.

To request personalized coaching email anrond@fiu.edu.

The Children’s Trust Youth Advisory Committee (YAC) application is open to high school students that are residents of Miami-Dade County. YAC is a youth development program focused on leadership, service and advocacy. The YAC provides experience with the legislative process, opportunities to speak with local officials, new friendships, and a chance to develop community service projects.

For more information or to apply click here.

The Children's Trust is sponsoring one more SPARK (Sports, Play, and Active Recreation for Kids) training that will be provided virtually on Saturday, December 5.

The training is for contracted Youth Development K-5 providers using SPARK curriculum for fitness. Please limit registrations to two staff per agency per training.

Go to Trust Academy to register!

UM Team COACH is here to support parenting programs. The team offers support in different programmatic areas, including increasing recruitment, making new partnerships, and improving fidelity and data quality.

To request coaching, complete the survey here. Starting this contract year, coaching is documented on the Trust Academy transcripts of staff members who receive it, making it easier to show what your staff has accomplished.

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.

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 December 15, from 10 a.m. - noon.

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

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 visit www.citrusfcn.com, The Miami Heart Gallery or call 1.855.786.KIDS (5437) or Ben Morales at 305.608.9640.

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's Trust Academy for full descriptions, meeting info and registration information.

Home Safety Training & Education: Thursday, November 19, 1-2:15 p.m.

Car Passenger Safety: Tuesday, December 1, 1-3 p.m. *

Home Safety Training & Education: Thursday, December 3, 1-2:15 p.m. *

Car Passenger Safety: Tuesday, December 15, 1-3 p.m. *

Home Safety Training & Education: Thursday, December 17, 1-2:15 p.m., *

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 here!

Over the next year, Sesame Street is partnering with Thriving Mind to help children and families manage tough times by hosting workshops for providers and sharing resources for programs that directly serve the community. One important component of our work together will be an evaluation of Sesame Street’s resources.

As part of the evaluation, researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will ask individuals to complete an online survey. This will be the first of two surveys that we they will ask some to fill out– one near the beginning of the Sesame Street campaign launch, and a second survey after the campaign. The survey will take about 20-30 minutes to complete. Participants will receive a $25 gift card by email after completing the survey.

Please click on this link to fill out the Google sign-up form and indicate your interest in the survey by November 30.

Approximately 85-100 people in the community will be surveyed. They will receive an email to complete the survey. If you have questions, you can email the research team at SesameCampaignStudy@air.org directly.

As we continue the efforts on Ending the HIV Epidemic, the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County is in the process of executing a contract with the Health Council of South Florida to be the lead agency for Ending the HIV Epidemic implementation funding.

The Health Council of South Florida will be releasing a Call to Action in December , with the purpose of funding local organizations to implement key strategies and activities from the local Ending the HIV Epidemic Plan.

For more information write EHEMIami@flhealth.gov.

Shift thinking (about yourself & your donors), dive deeper, & connect (really connect) to your donors in a mostly virtual normal. Kevin Kelsick & Mauricio Giammattei, Principles at MOK2 Branding, will share insights for nonprofits to authentically & successfully maximize the currency of purpose and branding to plan for what’s next in the COVID era of communication.

FREE, join Friday, November 20 at 10 a.m. Register here.

With so many families in our community facing difficult times due to the COVID-19, unstable housing has become more commonplace and this is a top concern for Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). Project UP-START is a M-DCPS’ program that provides additional support services to any student who is currently experiencing unstable housing.

If you know of school-aged children living in an unstable housing situation, visit projectupstart.dadeschools.net or email projectupstart@dadeschools.net.

In 14-weeks, you can get started on an in-demand career pathway in health care (clinical and administrative). This program is FREE and you earn industry standard certifications.

Due to COVID-19, this cohort will be completely online. Apply by December 18 (early admission deadline) and secure your guaranteed interview with the admission team. To learn about UP Labs please visit https//uplabs.fiu.edu.

Apply at https://go.fiu.edu/uplabsapp

The Center for Child Welfare @ USF, in collaboration with DCF, is offering Grant Writing Training for all levels. The next training module in the Grant Writing Series is Identifying Funding Opportunities and Forming Partnerships. This module will be offered live on three different days/times to give attendees an opportunity to ask questions.

To register for one of the repeating sessions, please click here, select the day/time of the session that you would like to attend and register. After you complete the registration you will receive a confirmation email. This fantastic training opportunity is being offered at no cost to DCF staff, CBCs, contract providers and community partners.

The CLEO Institute, in partnership with The University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, is hosting its 10th Annual Empowering Capable Climate Communicators Symposium virtually, welcoming experts and guests from across the world, for a 3-day discussion on climate and health. The symposium takes place Thursday, November 19-21, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Registration is FREE. Get tickets here.

The Miami Chamber of Commerce and CareerSource South Florida are offering $10,000 grants for small business to reimburse COVID-19 related expenses as businesses pivoted to keep open and to keep workers employed. The organizations have set aside $500,000 for the small businesses grants. These grants are strictly for reimbursement and are fairly simple to secure for qualifying businesses that can substantiate their expenditures.

Small businesses (3-50 employees) can apply for the grant program but they must check off all the qualifying information needed on the check list to qualify. Missing information or incomplete applications are automatically rejected by the system.

For more information and to apply click here.

FREE NAMI “Ending the Silence” Virtual Mental Health Program

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Miami-Dade’s “Ending the Silence”: Free Virtual Mental Health Education and Early Intervention Program for Youth and Young Adults welcomes families to learn the warning signs of mental health conditions, facts and statistics, coping skills, and local and national resources. The program takes place on Thursday, November 19 at 6 p.m.

Register at bit.ly/ETSNAMIMiami.

The Institute for Child and Family Health (ICFH) provides mental health services including Individual/family therapy and psychiatry for children and adolescents in Miami-Dade County. The institute accepts most Medicaid HMO’s and has funding for children of low-income families who do not have insurance. ICFH also provides individual/family therapy and psychiatry services for adults who have Medicaid.

For more information call 305.274.3172.

A licensed and credentialed Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) functions under the collaborative practice agreement with a physician and provides professional medical services in the community health center setting. The APRN is a liaison between the multidisciplinary healthcare team, patient, and their families. They follow established professional standards of care and agency guideline policy and procedures.

The Center For Family and Child Enrichment, Inc. is looking for a frontline public health worker who performs a wide variety of duties at the paraprofessional level to engage, support, advocate & educate community members in overall health and wellness. The community health worker serves as a liaison or link between health and social services and the community to facilitate access and improve health outcomes by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education and informal counseling & social support.

This position provides medical care to patients in our FQHC, The Pediatric & Family Health and Wellness Center.

For more information email aballoveras@cfceinc.org.

Interested apply through our website www.unitedwaymiami.org.

Urgent Inc. is looking to hire great, high energy talent in these specific areas for part time work:

Please email resume and cover letter to Shamina@urgentinc.org.

Miami Lighthouse for the Blind is looking for an individual to be responsible for developing grant strategies based upon its capacity, required program support and mission as it relates to the focus of grantor, donor’s family trust, and contracts with government entities requiring a proposal application. The candidate must have experience writing grants, a Bachelor's degree, experience in sponsored program compliance, writing with a strategic perspective pertaining to collaborators, grantors and other foundations.

Those interested should submit resume to lhurtado@miamilighthouse.org.

Forward resume by email to erivero@dadeschools.net.

For complete job listing, descriptions, requirements and to apply, visit CAREERBUILDER and CAREERROOKIE and/or e-mail resume and cover letter to Employment@icfhinc.org.