UPLIFT SERVICE PARTNERSHIP NETWORK

The UPLIFT Service Partnership is a networking opportunity to create a dynamic, long-term relationship with community providers. The purpose is to build a true collaboration among social service providers to fulfill the goal of serving low-income communities. This includes, but is not limited to, executing strategies that assist individuals and families who are facing poverty, unemployment, child maltreatment, and more.

As a network provider with Gang Alternative, an organization will have the opportunity to:

• Build awareness of the services they provide to the community
• Demonstrate corporate social responsibility
• Create a positive social change
• Access new communities that are impacted by social issues
• Drive meaningful change and make a lasting impact in the community

Our Children Have Rights

Website: https://www.ourchildrenhaverights.org/

Link to Initial Questionnaire: https://www.ourchildrenhaverights.org/contact (it may be best to use this for parents who want to speak with us directly.  There is a very brief intake form for parents submit, then we get in contact with them.

Description:

Our Children Have Rights.Org helps parents be better educated, equipped and prepared to navigate their child custody and co-parenting processes more seamlessly, at no cost to the family.

MISSION:  Protect the rights of children to have access to their parents by providing education, resources, and support services for successful co-parenting strategies.

GOAL:  To create a seamless process for parents while establishing custody of a child and provide the opportunity for them to reach their full potential.

What We Offer:

NO COST CONSULTATIONS

Direct Engagements with Parents via Zoom, FaceTime, Phone, Email & Text

• Parent dictates method of communication
• Engagements are on-going on an as-needed basis

NO COST DOCUMENT REVIEW

• Parenting Plans & Related Documents

WORKSHOPS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Available to speak with larger audiences
• (in-person & virtual)

Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.

Website: www.legalservicesmiami.org

Description: Legal Services of Greater Miami provides free legal assistance to low income residents of Miami Dade and Monroe County. Legal Services handles cases related to eviction, foreclosure, debt collection and other consumer issues, public benefits, income tax issues, special education access and services, and health care access. Visit Legal Services’ website for more information regarding the types of cases handled, how to apply for assistance, and access to self-help resources.

Miami Diaper Bank

Website: http://www.miamidiaperbank.com/

Description: Founded in 2013, the Miami Diaper Bank is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization and first established Diaper Bank in Miami. The Miami Diaper Bank’s mission is to collect and distribute diapers and other diaper related products to low-income families and their children, while also raising awareness about the need for diaper donations in the South Florida area.

Parent to Parent of Miami

Website: https://www.ptopmiami.org/

Description: Parent to Parent of Miami is a community parent resource center for families who have children with disabilities that provides disability specific information, peer support, one to one coaching, educational workshops, community resources and advocacy in Miami-Dade. Services are provided in English and Spanish and free of charge to parents. The majority of the staff and board are comprised of parents of children with disabilities.

Metro Mommy Agency

Website: https://www.metromommyagency.com

Description: Established in 2015, Metro Mommy Agency (MMA) is a community-based doula agency that provides birth and postpartum doula support to working moms and Medicaid-eligible clients as well as providing consulting services to public and private organizations.  MMA’s personalized doula support packages help clients who want to learn how to successfully navigate their childbirth and breastfeeding journey by providing timely childbirth and breastfeeding education reducing dissatisfaction with their birth experiences and the postpartum period. Metro Mommy Agency provides facilitation, mentorship, training, and community engagement consulting to help public and private agencies build relationships, obtain data to support their programming and contribute to community improvements in a meaningful and strategic way. MMA created the MOMCHA (Making Optimal Maternal Child Health Accessible) Program to build a curriculum to promote doula support to providers, institutions, and healthcare systems, the infrastructure to support the doula workforce workload, and leverage the UniteUs platform to refer pregnant people to BIPOC doula providers in South Florida.

Services include:
Birth Doula, Breastfeeding Support, Childbirth Education, Maternal Health Consulting, Family & Mommy Events, Home Birth Support, HypnoBirthing, In-home/Virtual Visits, Mentorship Program, Mommy Support Groups, Postpartum Doula, Resources & Donations, Speaking Engagements, and Water Tub Rentals

Chapman Partnership

Website: www.chapmanpartnership.org

 Description: Chapman Partnership serves as the designated private sector partner to the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust (MDCHT). The MDCHT, co-founded with Chapman Partnership in 1993, is the official coordinator for homeless services and rapid housing in this community.  Within the local homeless plan, Chapman Partnership is commissioned to operate two Homeless Assistance Centers that annually serve 3,000 clients (800 nightly, including families with children, which represent 44% of the population served, single men 43%, and single women 13%). The Centers operate nearly 60% of emergency shelter beds funded by the MDCHT.

With a vision that no man, woman or child sleeps on the streets of our community, Chapman Partnership Homeless Assistance Centers serve as one-stop temporary care entry points into the local continuum of care for our homeless with each resident receiving on average 125 days of stabilization and comprehensive needs assessment. Our comprehensive Homeless Empowerment Model includes: 1) emergency shelter (single female and male adult dorms and family-dedicated housing that prioritizes unification in the shelter setting); 2) three nutritious meals daily; 3) family stabilization that offers wrap-around services facilitated through weekly case management meetings that continually update each household’s Housing Stability Plan to address new and emerging needs; 4) medical clinics located at both Homeless Assistance Centers that provide $4.2M in community cost savings by improving overall health through the delivery of primary care (addressing acute and chronic health conditions that contribute to homelessness) and mental health services in a community-based setting; 5) comprehensive programming for children (Early Headstart, Headstart, afterschool and summer); 6) youth empowerment through paid internships that provide soft and hard job-skills training; 7) workforce development and alternative pathways for adults that includes education and reskilling programs, job preparedness and career counseling, and job placement and retention; 8) access to benefits (i.e., food stamps, Temporary Aid for Needy Families, etc.) that are key to long-term housing stability for low-income households; and 9) connecting residents to short and long-term subsidized rental subsidies (3-12 months) to ensure housing stability upon outplacement from the shelter setting.

Chapman Partnership has served over 135,000 admissions life-to-date, successfully placing 65% of households into permanent subsidized/non-subsidized housing, or reunification with family members.

Branches

Website: https://branchesfl.org/

Description: Branches provide life-changing opportunities to hardworking families and their children to help them break the cycle of generational poverty. We fulfill our mission by engaging children, youth, and adults with opportunities for them to become better educated, more financially stable, able to make long-term, positive life choices and to know God. Our services offer Financial Coaching, Free Tax Preparation, Student Achievement, Transportation Solution, and the Micro – Business program. Branches serve families by implementing a 2-Gen approach and create opportunities in our community.

Children’s Bereavement Center

Website:  www.childbereavement.org

Description: Children’s Bereavement Center (CBC) and adult division Lift From Loss was founded in Miami in 1999 and is a non-profit, community organization providing FREE grief peer support groups for children, teens and adults. CBC also provides grief education and training for educators, healthcare workers and community professionals while continuing grief research and providing grief resources for all.

Colgate

Website: https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health-education

Description: In 1991, Colgate introduced Bright Smiles, Bright Futures (BSBF), an oral health education and prevention program designed to improve the oral health of under-served children. In the U.S., BSBF exposes ten million children and their families annually to positive oral health education messages and/or provides free dental screenings to children ages 1-12. The primary BSBF goal is to teach children and their families how to maintain their overall health and well-being. Three significant elements are at the core of the BSBF program, they are: School Program/Curriculum, BSBF Mobile and Virtual Van Program and Community Awareness.

CABA Pro Bono Legal Services

Website: Caba Pro Bono | Legal Services.

Description: CABA Pro Bono Legal Services is committed to effecting positive change in the lives of children, individuals and families in need through legal advocacy. Our team achieves this by offering free, direct legal assistance for civil legal matters to low-income Florida residents- regardless of race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation or national origin.

The Community Health and Empowerment Network

Website: www.healthempowermentnetwork.org

Description:

About our organization and the service we provide:

The Community Health and Empowerment Network, Inc. is a 501(c)(3), not for profit organization that exist to provide health education, screening services and resources to the community to help them live a healthier lifestyle.

Healthy Hub: We offer free health screenings of Blood pressure check, glucose, HIV and STD test and BMI.  Clients will receive a $10 gift card (once) with screening

Circle of Wellness Program: Clients can meet with a medical provider (in-person or Telehealth), free of charge, if any of the screenings done come back reactive for a disease such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, HIV and STD or at-risk for these diseases.   We set up a care plan for the client as part of the Circle of Wellness Program to include: case management (housing resources, employment, food stamps/medicaid), order medication and/or set up exercise and nutrition plan.  Clients receive a $25 (monthly) for taking part in the Circle of Wellness program.

Food Distribution Program: Every 3rd of the month we offer a free food distribution from 10am-2pm in collaboration with Farmshare.  First come. First Served.  While supplies last.

Real Magnolias Women Support Group: the Real Magnolias is set up for women to receive social and emotional support and health education.  It is an 8-week session for two hours each week.  At the end, the client will receive a $75 gift card(one time) for participation