February 28, 2024

More Funding Resources Available for Your Agency *

Need funding for your amazing agency? Unlock a treasure trove of possibilities with Candid Foundation Directory Online!

Find the perfect grant fit:

• Search for foundations and grantmakers supporting your cause.
• Discover hidden funding opportunities beyond open RFPs.
• Explore detailed profiles of funders and their giving history.

Visit your local Miami-Dade public library branch and access the Candid Foundation Directory Online (FDO), generously funded by The Children’s Trust, for FREE!

Click below for instructions on how to access FDO when at your library. Don’t miss out – start your search today!

Trust Academy LMS Course Highlight: Identifying Your Strengths and Boosting Your Wellbeing *

Check out this course in Trust Academy LMS: Identifying Your Strengths and Boosting Your Wellbeing. This course will help you discover your unique strengths, boost your happiness, and master your time for greater well-being!

This course is perfect for anyone who wants to:

• Feel more confident and empowered
• Increase their overall well-being and happiness
• Learn practical tools to improve their daily lives

Ready to unlock your full potential? Log into Trust Academy, click into Trust Academy LMS and search the Course Catalog for Identifying Your Strengths and Boosting Your Wellbeing today!

Parent Club Request for Proposals Coming in March *

The Parent Club Request for Proposal (RFP) will fund multiple providers, for up to $1,700,000, to offer in-person and virtual delivery of universal parenting workshops and supports across the developmental spectrum from prenatal/early childhood through adolescence. Services must be available to all Miami-Dade parents and primary caregivers, with the goal of reaching large numbers of families across the county.

The RFP will be released on March 20, with a Bidders' Conference and Application Training on March 27. For more information, go to the Grant Opportunities page of The Children's Trust website:

Champions for Children is April 11 *

The 18th Annual Children's Trust Champions for Children Award Ceremony returns on Thursday, April 11, from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport and Convention Center, 711 NW 72nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33126. For more information on seats, tables and for sponsorship opportunities, please click below:

Community Needs Assessment Reports Available on Trust Website

The Children's Trust partnered with a local research consultant to conduct research and evaluation services that inform The Trust’s ongoing work. The results of that work are now available on The Trust's website in the form of four reports on the following initiatives:

• Summer and After-School Programs
• Early Childcare and Education
• Health and Wellness
• Parenting Education and Support

The objectives of the research were to assess the needs and interests of potential program participants to inform planning for future investments and to incorporate input from current service recipients to support providers’ continuous learning and quality improvement. 

These reports highlight findings from community surveys and focus groups with parents and youth. In addition to gauging on-average attitudes and experiences, they also draw comparisons across different populations to explore whether different facets of the community have different experiences and needs.

To download the reports click below:

Advocacy Network on Disabilities Trainings

Administrator’s Overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Date: March 7

Time 10-11:30 a.m.

Location: Zoom

Are you an Administrator, site director, or the person responsible for your organization meeting its legal obligations under the ADA? Join us to be sure you are up to date on enrollment eligibility, reasonable accommodations, policies and procedures, and more.

NEW! Join us for our live in-person training 

Diagnosis Overshadowing

Date: March 14

Time: 1-2:30 p.m.

Location: The Children’s Trust Training Room, 3150 SW 3rd Ave, Miami, FL 33129

Are you a clinician (social worker, therapist, mental health counselor) who works with children or adults with disabilities? Did you know that the mental health needs of people with disabilities are often overlooked? Come learn about common disorders that present the risk of diagnosis overshadowing and identify strategies to avoid it. 

Please contact training@advocacynetwork.org 2 weeks in advance for any accommodations you may need for accessibility.

Leadership Academy 2024 - Application is Open! *

Are you ready to take your leadership skills to the next level? Join Leadership Academy, a 9-month program that includes live subject matter expert-designed sessions and peer groups! The Academy is a professional development program for supervisory-level leaders to move to the next level of personal and professional growth. Applications are open through March 11. More information below:

Strategic Communications Planning: 90-Minute Virtual Refresher 

Join a 1.5-hour senior leader refresher on March 26 at 9 a.m. - a confidential roundtable sparking fresh ideas to tackle challenges. Navigate tough comms, balance priorities, and be the bold, trusted advisor your org craves.

Supervisors: Leading your Organization with SEW

Elevate your leadership game! Our training equips executives, leaders, and supervisors with savvy tips to boost Social-Emotional Wellness (SEW) in your organization. Dive into values, workplace policies, culture, communication, and structural changes. With workplaces in constant flux, flexibility is key. We're here to inject your toolkit with practical ideas, guiding you to champion the social-emotional wellness of your colleagues. Session takes place March 8. More information below:

Leading Up and Out with Social and Emotional Wellness

Fuel your leadership evolution! Join our training to amplify strengths, identify growth areas, and nurture others for organizational wellness. In the dynamic workplace, be flexible in "leading up and out." Unveil practical strategies for the next step in your evolution, championing social and emotional wellness. Session takes place March 12. More information below:

Supervisors: Leading with Social and Emotional Wellness through Storms

Geared for supervisors and executives, our training is your playbook through organizational storms. Leadership in recent tough times requires a strategic guide. Discover techniques to lead your team through challenges while emphasizing social and emotional wellness. Whether it's high turnover, workplace trauma, or complex tasks, your leadership molds the team's social and emotional outcome. Session takes place March 26. More information below:

Mindfulness Mini-Retreat

Join an immersive mini-retreat exploring the science of mindfulness and mindfulness-based practices. Discover the proven benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through diverse practices like body scan, lovingkindness, mindful movement, and more. Uncover the transformative impact of mindfulness training on attention, executive function, emotional regulation, social skills, and overall well-being. The mini-retreat takes place March 28.

Innovation Fund Grant Applications Open

An Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) will fund multiple entities, for up to $1,000,000, for innovative ideas and program designs that address existing community needs and have not previously been implemented in our community. The Trust is seeking to fund innovative projects that test new ideas that address existing community needs and have not been previously implemented in our community. Successful proposals will demonstrate invention, theoretical reason for success and courage to explore uncharted territory. The release date is February 8. Click below for more information:

Parenting - Early Literacy (Books for Free) RFP Open

This request for proposal will fund one agency up to $700,000 to implement the Books for Free initiative which helps ensure young children through age 8, and their families have access to books via community bookshelves placed in public spaces throughout Miami-Dade County.

For more information click below:

Reading Enhancements Invitation to Negotiate Open

This Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) will fund one entity, for up to $1,500,000 to reduce summer learning loss and build literacy skills through differentiated literacy intervention (DLI) services in the summer for rising kindergarten through rising second grade children who are behind in reading and pre-reading skills. In addition, the entity will work year-round to screen and address literacy in rising kindergarten through fifth grade students with Dyslexia. Along with the direct services, reading enhancement services will include year-round professional development, on-site coaching and consultation for community-based Trust-funded after-school program staff to ensure staff members deliver high-quality DLI and Dyslexia services for participating elementary school children.

Click below for more information:

Upcoming Project RISE Virtual Training Opportunities for Youth Development Providers *

Creating a Learning Environment Nurtures Greatness Peer Learning Session #2

Thursday, March 7

10-11:30 a.m.

This peer learning series will give K-5 Youth Development (YD) staff the opportunity to reflect on ways to create nurturing learning environments that are supportive, interactive, and engaging. Participants will share the strategies and resources they rely on to create these environments and nurture children's physical, academic, social, and emotional development.

Once registered on the Trust Academy LMS, you will receive an email with the Zoom link and additional handouts and information one business day before the session.

Upcoming UM Team COACH Trainings

Attention parenting providers! Do you have skills you want to learn, questions you want answered or communities you want to build? Well then check out the UM Team Coach supports that we offer! We are the home for you!

Communities of Practice (CoP): Join a community where Parenting Providers support one another, share best practices and deepen their knowledge. CoPs are held virtually the first week of every month.

Parent and Provider Stressors & Barriers: This CoP is held on the first Wednesday of each month. The next CoP will be held on Wednesday, March 6, from 11 a.m.-noon. Click here to sign up or log in to Trust Academy!

Recruitment, Outreach & Creating Support Networks: This CoP is held on the first Thursday of each month. The next CoP will be held on Thursday, March 7, from 10-11 a.m. Click here to sign up or log in to Trust Academy!

Starting From Scratch Series Community of Practice: Are you a parenting program provider? Are you confused about something as you start the new contract cycle? This CoP is for you! Come with your questions, and work with a community of fellow parenting program providers to find answers as we all navigate this transition to a new Parenting Program Contract cycle. This CoP will be held on Friday, March 8, from 12-1 p.m. Click here to sign up or log in to Trust Academy!

Coaching and Consultation: Parenting providers, we are here directly for your individualized needs! If you are interested in coaching or consultation, please click here to complete our coaching request form.

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:

Community Giving Program 2024 Grant Opportunity for Coral Gables Serving Programs *

The Coral Gables Community Foundation’s Community Giving Program awards grants to deserving local non-profit organizations that address issues within our focus areas and serve those who live, work, learn and play in Coral Gables. Programs selected for funding must benefit Coral Gables and fit within our four focus areas:

• Arts & Culture
• Education
• Placemaking, Historic Preservation and Environment
• Social & Health Services

Making a request for a grant starts by submitting a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) by Friday, March 1. Organizations may submit more than one LOI. Selected LOI’s will be invited by the Community Foundation to submit a full application.

Headline: Change the Life of a Child in Foster Care; Serve on a Citizen Review Panel *

Florida Foster Care Review (FFCR) advances the safety, stability and success of youth and young adults involved in Miami-Dade’s dependency system by connecting them to essential services, healthy relationships and forever families. FFCR seeks caring volunteers to review and monitor cases one full weekday per month during Citizen Review Panel (CRP) hearings held virtually. Visit link below for more information and requirements.

Applications Now Open for the ArtWorks Internship: A Paid Summer Arts Program for Teens in South Florida 

For the 12th year of its ArtWorks Internship Program, Arts for Learning/Miami (A4L) is looking to hire 100 students from Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and beyond Florida to participate in a paid artistic internship of their choice. During the six-week internship, interns learn new art skills, apply techniques, and work on developing projects in their artistic discipline. Students also benefit from learning life and workforce skills such as financial literacy and professionalism.

Peace & Prosperity Empowerment Through Education Scholarship- Accepting Applications 

The Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) is proud to present the Peace & Prosperity Empowerment Through Education Scholarship program, a Miami-Dade County Community Violence Intervention initiative. ONS is accepting applications through March 24, 2024. Click below to learn more and/or to apply.

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:

• How Mass Violence Impacts Youth: March 12
• Children with Problematic Sexual Behaviors: March 14

Register below:

Safe in the 305 Grant Program Accepting Applications

The Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) is proud to present another round of the Safe in the 305 microgrant program, a Miami-Dade County Peace & Prosperity Plan initiative. Safe in the 305 is designed to encourage residents and community stakeholders to promote peace and prosperity, by funding community-driven actions that make their own neighborhoods safer. ONS is currently accepting applications through March 1. Kindly share this opportunity with community stakeholders and members in your network. To learn more and/or apply click below:

Available Positions at The Children's Trust *

Communication & Community Engagement Coordinator - $48,668.20

The Communications and Community Engagement (CE) Coordinator is responsible for assisting the Director of Communications with the general administration of communications projects, vendor agreements and purchase orders. Work performed by the Communications & Community Engagement Coordinator includes but is not limited to researching and obtaining bids for services or purchased goods, monitoring agreements and their terms of services, scopes of work and quality of final product, goods or service to ensure high-level output. The incumbent has latitude to make informed decisions and recommendations regarding vendor and/or materials selection; and prepares reports for the department and executive management.

Community Engagement Manager $55,968.20 Annual

The Community Engagement Manager is responsible for performing a variety of community-driven duties with an emphasis on maintaining contact with community groups, parents and other caregivers, providing support to residents on children’s needs, as well as evaluating and responding to community needs concerning children. The incumbent exercises independence of action and will possess considerable knowledge of community activities and needs for children and families and use considerable professional judgment in the performance of community engagement work. Key skills include: Grant administration, Budget management, Systems Management, Customer service, Data Entry, Financial processing, Analytics, Fiscal systems. 

Program Manager - $55,968.20 Annual

This professional position will support the Programs Management Team in implementing strategies that foster collaboration among internal and external stakeholders to ensure services are delivered in accordance with The Children’s Trust standards and latest evidence-based practices. S/he is responsible for utilizing change management, knowledge, skills, and behaviors to promote continuous quality improvement throughout the assigned contracts and projects. This person will be assigned a caseload of contracts and may serve as initiative/project lead. The attached exhibits include additional responsibilities for the Program Manager leading our Metrics and PPD efforts. Experience working with System-Involved Youth or implementing similar programming is strongly preferred. 

Job Posting from Breakthrough Miami *

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.

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

Available Positions at Urban Health Partnerships *

Administrative Positions

Health Equity Program Manager (LGBTQ+ Focus)

Evaluation Coordinator

Grants & Development Coordinator

Mobility Planning Project Manager

Community Liaison Positions

Miami-Dade County Community Liaison Lead – LGBTQ+

Overtown Community Liaisons

Available Opportunities at St. Alban's Child Enrichment Center *

Are you passionate about making a positive impact on young minds? St. Albans is thrilled to announce that it has exciting opportunities available to join its team in Early Childhood Education! Available positions are: Infant and Toddler Teacher Assistant (Coconut Grove and Allapattah), Head Start Teacher (Coconut Grove), Head Start Teacher Assistant (Coconut Grove) and Health/Mental Health/Disabilities Coordinator Nutrition Coordinator. Send your resume to info@stalbanschildcare.org or visit website below:

Employment Opportunities at Jewish Community Services of South Florida *

Jewish Community Services is hiring for several positions: Licensed Clinicians, Chief Development Officer and many more. For further details and to apply please follow the link below:

Director of Children and Youth Needed at The Arc of South Florida *

Arc of South Florida seeks Director to oversee multiple county-wide educational programs for children with special needs and disabilities, coordinate decisions regarding program development, staff concerns and parent involvement and contribute to grant/budget writing and management. Bachelors required. Masters preferred. Three+ years administrative and supervisory experience required with program/grants and budget management. Excellent Benefits package. Apply online at link below:

First Star Academy Summer Staff Openings *

First Star University of Miami Academy is a college-preparatory program for high school foster youth. The Academy strives to keep youth on track for high school graduation, prepare them for higher education, and equip them with the skills to successfully transition to adulthood. It currently has three openings for a summer program coordinator, as well as one language arts, one math, and one science teacher to support our program this summer.

Available Position at the Advocacy Network on Disabilities *

The Family Support Coordinator is responsible for the provision of advocacy, support and linkage services to individuals with developmental and other disabilities, their families and caregivers as well as professionals and others seeking assistance. Utilizes strength-based strategies to build families’ protective factors.

Training and Experience Requirements: Bachelor's in social work or related field. Minimum of 2 years-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: $40,000 - $45,000. It offers 100% employer-paid medical benefits, 12 paid holidays, and generous PTO.

Send resume to email below:

Career Opportunities at Connect Familias

Success Coach/Assessor Schedule and conduct assessments and family coaching sessions. Coordinate referrals across programs and partner agencies. Experience working with Hispanic families. English & Spanish required. Bachelor's Degree with 1 year+ of case management or related experience. Able to recruit & engage youth & families, have reliable transportation & knowledge of community resources. Salary negotiable & benefits. Full-time flexible schedule.

Career Opportunities at 7 Heaven Learning Center

School Director Responsible for overseeing a daycare facility to ensure that children have a safe and fun environment to learn and socialize with others. Their duties include managing EHS, SR, Thrive by 5 Programs and DCF requirements. Please e-mail resume, competitive salary, start date: ASAP

Career Opportunities at Family Central

Family Central is hiring! The organization offers competitive salaries and a generous benefits plan. Full-time and part-time opportunities include: nurturing coach, family consultant, benefits enrollment specialist, school readiness parent educators / HIPPY, preschool teacher, assistant teachers, early childhood mental health consultant, and Early Head Start mental health consultant. For more details and to apply, please visit link below:

Available Positions at Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Secretarial Positions *

Full and part-time positions to provide varied secretarial, accounting and organizational work. Provide services for administrators and schools that is necessary for the operation of organization. Employee should be organized, self-directed, display independent initiative and judgement as it relates to job assignments. Qualifications: High School Diploma. Location: Downtown Miami office

Clerical Position

Full-time position to provide varied secretarial, accounting and organizational work. Provide services for administrators and schools that is necessary for the operation of organization. Employee should be organized, self-directed, display independent initiative and judgement as it relates to job assignments. Qualifications: High School Diploma.

Academic Interventionist

Professional needed who can assist students with their academic assignments and support them with completion of homework assignments. Interventionist will support students at risk of falling behind in their academic studies. Academic interventionist may assess instructional materials and technology and analyze student needs to address academic challenges. Academic interventionist will work with team to assist students in hospital setting who require instructional support.

School Psychologist

Immediate part-time and full-time openings for school psychologists, with increased hourly rate for summer employment. Applicants must have experience working with children and possess either a current certificate in school psychology from the Florida Department of Education or be licensed as a psychologist through the Florida Department of Health. Candidates should send a cover letter, résumé and copy of their state certificate or license to link below.