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Mayor Manny Diaz’s Faith-Based Initiative strives to enhance the quality of life for Miami’s residents by working closely with Miami’s Faith-Based community. Throughout history, churches and Faith-Based organizations have been the chief institutions concerned with helping the poor and needy. Mayor Diaz believes that by working closely with Faith-Based organizations, local government can involve itself effectively with the direct involvement that religious institutions enjoy in communities. Components of the Faith-Based Initiative include: the Quarterly Pastoral Roundtable, Capacity Building Workshops, Working Groups, and Prevent Gun Violence Sundays.
The core of the Mayor’s Faith-Based Initiative, which ties in all the different components, is the Mayor’s Quarterly Pastoral Roundtable. These Pastoral Roundtables are intended to celebrate good work within the community and highlight the success of the different components that take place between each Pastoral Roundtable.
At the end of each Pastoral Roundtable, the Faith-Based Organizations are offered the opportunity to participate in informational sessions intended to provide resources and information that will be beneficial to the Faith-Based Organization and the community it serves. Some of the topics that have been discussed during theses sessions are as follows:
- The R.E.S.P.E.C.T program with Miami-Dade Weed and Seed, which is an innovative approach to youthful offender re-entry and juvenile delinquency, with the participants being charged as adults and/or incarcerated at Turner Guilford Knight Facility.
- The Parent Academy, which helps parents help their children by bringing hundreds of classes and resources to parents at 80 sites throughout Miami-Dade County where parents can take classes in their own neighborhood.
- The Miami Cares initiative with the City of Miami Homeless Assistance Program, which is an ambitious effort to provide services to hundreds of homeless individuals with the goal of helping eradicate homelessness in the City of Miami.
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which covered basic information on what HUD is about, including the citizen participation process, consolidated plan, annual plan, entitlement jurisdiction, and CDBG.
To view our previous Pastoral Roundtable agendas, please click on the following dates:
December 9, 2005
August 31, 2005
If you would like to participate in the next Pastoral Roundtable, please sign up below and we will add you to our mailing list. Download Pastoral Roundtable Application Form (PDF).
For information on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci
For information on Miami-Dade Weed and Seed, visit http://www.weedandseed.com/.
For information on The Parent Academy, visit http://www.theparentacademy.net/
For information on Miami Cares day, visit www.ci.miami.fl.us/NETS/pages/AboutNET/NewsEvents.asp
For information on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, visit www.hud.gov/offices/fbci
The second component of the Mayor’s Faith-Based Initiative focuses on Capacity Building. Eight workshops per year are offered to Faith-Based Organizations, where they can obtain information on how to maximize the capacity of their organization. Family and Children Faith Coalition has worked closely with our providers to assure that the workshops offered address the true needs of the Faith-Based Organizations.
- Mission
- Vision
- Strategy
- Community Needs Assessment
- Programmatic Topics
- Evaluation
- Collaboration with Community Partners
These workshops have introduced several methods and resources for community needs assessments, which is a key ingredient of every successful proposal for grant funding. They have also walked everyone step by step to a Mission/Vision Statement for their ministry or non-profit, which will communicate equally to grant funders, program recipients, and Board of Directors.
If you would like to participate in an upcoming workshop, please sign up below and we will add you to our mailing list. Download Capacity Building Workshop Application Form (PDF)
For more information on Family and Children Faith Coalition, visit http://www.fcfcfl.org/ or http://www.factfl.org/
Pastoral Roundtable
Mayor Manny Diaz has developed small Working Groups designed to establish ways for Faith-Based Organizations to collaborate with the Mayor’s Office, the City of Miami’s Grants Department, and other Community-Based Organizations throughout the City of Miami. The working groups developed thus far include Youth Initiatives, Prisoner Reentry Initiatives, and Poverty Initiatives. The groups will focus on the generation of programmatic ideas that could lead to funding opportunities. Proposals will be submitted to the City of Miami Grants Department for programs that are developed by all of the collaborating organizations that participate in these working group meetings.
If you would like to participate in our Working Groups, please sign up below and we will add you to our mailing list. Download Working Group Application Form (PDF)
For information on mentoring opportunities relating to the Youth Working Group, visit http://www.wementor.org/.
For more information on federal Prisoner Reentry Initiatives, visit http://www.bop.gov/ or www.doleta.gov/pri
For more information on the ACCESS Miami program relating to the Poverty Working Group, visit www.ci.miami.fl.us/communitydevelopment/accessmiami.asp.
For information on the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, visit www.hhs.gov/fbci
Mayor Manuel A. Diaz along with Miami-Dade Weed and Seed has spearheaded a Prevent Gun Violence Initiative within the City of Miami. This initiative is geared towards informing residents of the City about gun violence in their community, and specifically targets Model City, SW Coconut Grove, Little Haiti, and Overtown. With Faith-Based Organizations being a very good source of information for the residents in the community, we are working through the local Faith-Based Organizations to inform the community of gun violence and prevention.
To tailor this effort to individual communities, statistical information pertaining to gun violence and prevention is obtained from the Police Commander in the area and addressed by Mayor Diaz in the form of an insert. This insert is placed in the bulletin or newsletter of the selected churches, and distributed to the congregation on Sunday.
If your organization would like to participate in the next Prevent Gun Violence Sunday, please sign up below and we will add you to our mailing list.
To read the Prevent Gun Violence insert for your neighborhood, please click on the following locations:
Model City
Coconut Grove
Little Haiti
Overtown
For more information on Miami-Dade Weed and Seed, visit http://www.weedandseed.com/.
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