Programs

Access to Housing and Basic Needs

Emergency Services
American Red Cross Greater Miami & the Keys
The Emergency Services program utilizes trained staff and volunteers to respond when a disaster threatens or strikes by providing families who have been affected with necessities such as groceries, clothing, temporary housing, emergency home repairs, basic household items, medicines and tools as well as other services as needed.

Emergency Services
Catholic Charities -- New Life Family Shelter
The Emergency Services program helps residents who have experienced an interruption of income due to loss of employment, illness, loss of other resources or extenuating circumstances. Through a case manager and a financial recovery plan clients receive assistance with rent, utilities and food, assistance with move-in expenses, referrals to programs for skill improvement and other means to increase their incomes and ensure a stable future.

Transitional Shelter
Catholic Charities -- New Life Family Shelter
The Transitional Shelter is a facility for homeless families that provides housing, food, on-site case management, clothing, permanent housing placement assistance, bus tokens and bus passes, life skills training, resume preparation, job search assistance and follow-up care. The shelter also helps clients qualify for educational and vocational programs, health and medical care, mental health treatment, child care, legal services, credit counseling and funding for utility deposits, security deposits, first month’s rent and furniture upon placement to permanent housing.

Economic Independence for Persons with Disabilities
CCDH
The Economic Independence for Persons with Disabilities program advocates, coordinates, and provides supports and services to families who are experiencing economic emergencies and provides resources and referrals, education, training and case management, food vouchers, equipment, medical supplies, diapers, or clothing as needed.

Foster Care Citizen Review
Foster Care Review
New Beginnings
Lutheran Services Florida
The New Beginnings program is a transitional housing program that helps large, homeless families attain and maintain permanent housing and become self-sufficient by providing housing, case management to help the adults find jobs, day care, transportation, and generate income to support daily living expenses, including rent, on their own. Within 9 to 18 months, the families move to permanent housing and are provided with follow-up case management for a year.

Residential Emergency Youth Shelters
Miami Bridge Youth & Family Services
Salvation Army
The Family Services program focuses on homeless prevention, serving community residents who are in need of rental, utility and holiday assistance, food vouchers, and food from the organization’s food pantry.

Men's Lodge
Salvation Army
The Men's Lodge provides a safe haven for homeless men who need temporary shelter while they work toward stabilizing their lives. The program serves veterans, ex-offenders, senior citizens and others who, through unemployment and underemployment, are homeless and without a support system to assist in getting them through their crisis.

Women's Lodge
Salvation Army
The Women's Lodge provides a safe haven for single women and their families who require emergency housing and have a myriad of psychological, social and economic issues. The shelter serves homeless women and families, including intact families, by providing intensive case management and ancillary services to meet each family’s special needs.

Job Training and Placement

School to Work Program
Big Brothers Big Sisters
The School to Work program targets students at-risk of not graduating, gives them exposure to workplace environments, and matches them with mentors to help them stay in school and make a successful transition to the workforce.

Independent Living Program
CHARLEE of Dade County
This program prepares young people in foster care for their transition to independence through Life Skills trainings on resume writing, appropriate employment attire, interviewing skills, securing housing, educational opportunities and processes.

Family Refuge for Adolescents in Transition (FRAT House)
Citrus Health Network
The Family Refuge for Adolescents in Transition or FRAT House Program serves young adults (18-23 yrs old), including those with mental illness or dually diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse problems, who have just reached adulthood and lack family and other critical socio-economic supports and provides them with the skills to manage their daily lives as adults.

Employability Skills Training Program
AMIKids Miami-Dade
The Employability Skills Training program works with delinquent youth 14-18 years of age and provides employability skills training including resume writing, interviewing skills and on the job training focused on the marine industry.

Vocational Rehabilitation
Goodwill Industries of South Florida
The vocational rehabilitation program employs people with disabilities with a skill level appropriate job, maximizing their earnings and benefits. The program’s focus is on vocational rehabilitation designed to provide an employment service that helps clients overcome their obstacles in finding work and become competitively employed in the community.

Summer Youth Employment Program
Richmond Perrine Optimist Club
START Now Youth Program
Suited for Success
Suited for Success teaches students job readiness skills such as interview skills, business etiquette, and appropriate job attire. The program targets high school students living in households at/or below the poverty line. Upon program completion, youth are given interview appropriate attire for their personal use.

Early Self Sufficiency Program
Youth Co-Op
The Early Self Sufficiency Program targets refugees, asylees, and new arrivals to the U.S. (within 30 days) and empowers them with educational and employment opportunities. This program walks immigrants through the complicated maze of social service systems, aiming to rapidly engage clients in the work force with a career ladder leading to a living wage.

Financial Management

South Florida Financial Literacy Project
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of South Florida (CCCS)/Apprisen Financial Advocates
The South Florida Financial Literacy Project teaches money management skills to help adults manage their finances more responsibly. Counselors provide one-on–one assistance to individuals regarding credit issues, homeownership, budgeting and debt management. Online education is available to clients through the organization’s website.

Economic Independence Program
CNC
The Economic Independence Program provides financial literacy training and case management to low/moderate income Hispanic residents in Little Havana and Hialeah. The program focuses on teaching the building blocks of financial literacy, the importance of saving, banking and systematic financial planning, and the positive management of credit.

The Individual Development Accounts Program seeks to increase the financial skills of participants so they can better manage their resources to benefit themselves and their families. The educational component is open to all residents of Miami-Dade County and the matched savings accounts are awarded to individuals and families based on income and having fulfilled the requirements of the program. Participants receive education, support, counseling and the tools they need to embark on a new path to reach their goals.