Give Miami Day

2024

Help Hope for Miami Fill Gaps in Social Services

Over the 25 years of Hope for Miami’s existence, we have specialized in “filling gaps” or meeting unmet community needs. Here is a partial history of unique services, past and present (and our hopes for the future).

In 2005, we started the first afterschool program to serve Deaf children. A group of Deaf students were integrated at the site with their hearing peers – and everyone learned Sign Language. We had staff with fluency in Sign Language who could meet the children’s social/emotional needs and not experience isolation with just an interpreter and no peers.

Hope for Miami was a founding partner of the Service Network for Children of Inmates – reconnecting the children through family bonding visits to the prison where their incarcerated parent resides.

We've set up year-round programs to ensure that high school students with a disability have access to programs focusing on independent living and transitions to adulthood.

We are taking other grassroots non-profits (especially faith-based groups) under our wing so that social service programs can expand throughout Miami-Dade County.

Expanded free youth mental health awareness workshops during the pandemic when so many youth were isolated at home.

Started partnering with our public school system to

re-connect children who stopped attending school during the pandemic through home visits and providing resources to their parents.

We are the first agency to expand parenting programs to focus on the unique needs of fathers.

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Selected as a partner with FIU to provide new literacy services to kids with dyslexia.

Fundraising Goal: $60,000

$18,000

Expanding our services for teens with a disability and their Peer Mentors.

$15,000

Summer camp scholarships for low-income families.

$12,000

Expand our fatherhood programs and provide mentors to young fathers.

$9,000

Youth mental health awareness education, especially for non-English speaking residents.

$6,000

Transportation assistance to ensure access to our programs and services for children and families.

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Testimonial

"When Gabriel came to our afterschool program, he was so frightened and traumatized from the long travel journey and exposure to violence in his home country that he did not speak (in ANY language). The principal at his public school recommended that his mother enroll him in our afterschool program - as we had bi-lingual staff, a low ratio of students to staff, and an excellent track record of helping increase the academic achievement of new immigrant children. Gabriel flourished in our program and slowly built trust with our staff who patiently worked with him and taught him English. After a few months, he became willing to talk and is now flourishing at home, school, and

our program. "

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