Family & Children Faith Coalition, Inc. (d/b/a Hope for Miami)

Our Vision: a Miami where we use our resources, skills, and interests as "threads" to re-weave our neighborhoods into a tapestry of well-being for everyone.

Our Mission: Hope for Miami nurtures children and youth through effective programs that build positive, healthy futures.

Our goal is to empower for more effective service while helping these groups to achieve sustainability, thus allowing us to "multiply" our efforts.

These are the strategies we have found that are working successfully as we accomplish our vision and mission.

Strengthening Families: Strategy - Nurturing children and youth through effective programs that build positive, healthy futures

Strengthening Organizations: Assist other non-profit organizations to grow by providing consulting, advice and connections to effective organizational services that have been vetted by Hope for Miami senior staff.

Strategy for strengthening our own organization: Hope for Miami Staff and volunteers: We invest personally and professionally to equip, encourage and mobilize for tasks with Hope for Miami and for whatever endeavors they seek in the future.

Hope for Miami /Family & Children Faith Coalition currently operates ten different programs serving children, youth and parents. The issues addressed are: after school, children and youth with disabilities, literacy, nutrition and fitness and positive youth development.

We’ve operated after school programs for sixteen years with funding from the Children’s Trust, a local public funder. Most programs managed by Hope for Miami receive public funding, which requires a high level of fiscal, administrative and programmatic excellence, which is reflected in our annual monitoring reports and our independent audits.Volunteers supplement our programs as mentors, tutors, reading pals, and social work interns, as well as providing administrative and clerical support.

Fiscal Capacity: Since 2004, the agency has undergone an independent financial audit of our accounting practices. As required by the Children’s Trust, for the past ten years we have also submitted a Programmatic Audit of our financial records. As the recipient of federal funding, the agency also submits an A-133 audit.

Independent Program Evaluation: Our most recent federal grant required independent evaluation of our program. The agency has retained Behavioral Science Research Institute of Coral Gables, FL as our evaluation firm.

Staff Training: All staff who are employed by Hope for Miami receive an employment orientation and those serving children (classroom, after-school or other setting) must undergo a fingerprint background screening and participate in a series of pre-employment trainings before they go into a classroom. This training includes: Agency Orientation & Administrative Policies, Child Abuse prevention & mandatory reporting, HIV/Aids prevention, Internet Security Awareness, HIPAA Compliance and Client Confidentiality, Civil Rights Compliance, along with program-specific trainings.

Staff also attend in-service trainings on the following topics: Handling Difficult Youth, Classroom Management Techniques, Trauma and its Impact, Positive Youth Development, Time Management, Injury Prevention, Non-Profit Management (documenting outcomes).