OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES

• Identifying grants and resources for the City’s youth and homeless service providers in order to bring additional resources for our City’s youth, families, homeless and others
• Providing referral services for residents needing to access a variety of services including legal and medical care, employment, public entitlement programs, child care, affordable housing and more
• Providing advocacy before the Special Master on behalf of elder residents facing code violations
• Providing training and visioning assistance for community and faith-based providers
• Coordinating the implementation of the Miami Beach Service Partnership among providers for youth ages 15 to 18 focusing on truancy prevention efforts that creates a coordinated, culturally-competent and outcomes-based system of delivery utilizing best practices.
• Providing emergency rent assistance for families and individuals facing eviction and homelessness (as funded through the State’s Emergency Food & Shelter Program)