1. Renewal of the Children's Trust After School and Summer Camp Grant Program in the approximate amount of $465,000.
The Children's Trust After School and Summer Camp Grant Program provides funding to support daily after school and summer enrichment services for at-risk populations in Miami-Dade County. The purpose of the program is to target resources to prevent negative risk factors for school-aged children and their families via programs that provide youth enrichment services and a nurturing and supervised environment while parents are working.
The City's Parks and Recreation Department has received this grant for its after school and summer camp program successfully for fifteen years. During the 2022-2023 Program Year, the program will provide after-school services to approximately 255 children and summer camp services to approximately 300 children in grades K-5 attending school in Miami Beach. The program offers activities to children, including academic enrichment, literacy, physical fitness, social-emotional learning, nutrition and family engagement. The goals of the program are to improve literacy, physical fitness, and social-emotional skills. The agreement contracting year is August 1, 2022 - July 31, 2023. Matching funds are not required for this grant.
2. Renewal of the Children's Trust Youth Enrichment Grant Program in the approximate amount of $372,000.
The Children's Trust Youth Enrichment (All Stars) Program offers an afterschool program at Nautilus Middle School during the school year. In addition, the Program also offers a summer program, based at Miami Beach Regional Library for middle school-aged youth residing in Miami-Dade County.
The afterschool program consists of a structured design of activities and outcomes-driven programming grounded by the evidence-based Positive Action Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum, and serves approximately 145 participants. In addition, highly interactive, skill building activities are provided in the following areas: academics, arts, sports, community service, entrepreneurship, and STEM. The summer program is an opportunity for youth to use science, technology, engineering, art and math, and this program serves approximately 35 participants. The agreement contracting year is August 1, 2022 - July 31, 2023. Matching funds are not required for this grant.