UnidosUS Graduation

Overtown Youth Center continues to thrive in helping parents and families achieve their career goals through our banking training! We congratulate our UnidosUS graduates, who embarked on their banking career journey on December 9th at the Center for Black Innovation.  Our success is made possible by the support of our local banks and partners; Bank…

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Bridging the Gap Through Technology

Our community partner, Overtown Children & Youth Coalition (OCYC) donated laptops to 11 of our Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine Inc. students, grades kindergarten through 2nd grade.  Students were pleasantly surprised when they learned they would be participating in a STEM activity where they would build the laptops they were being gifted! This exercise…

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She Mastered It!

We are beaming with pride as our Overtown Youth Center Alumna, Quan, has earned her Masters of Social Work from Barry University with a focus on trauma informed care. Quan started our programs as a 2nd grader, which has allowed us to have witnessed her growth first hand throughout her journey with us. Quan continues…

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Entrepre-new-her !

Please join us in congratulating Jeanice Princess Escarment, a Honey Bug Alumna of Honey Shine Inc., as she prepares for the grand opening of her storefront shop, Princess Shop, in North Miami on January 20th 2022! With an entrepreneurial spirit that she garnered from her father, a Haitian Immigrant business owner, Jeanice is ready to…

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Mourning Family Foundation Holiday Party 2021

Mourning Family Foundation’s Annual Holiday party presented by Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine Inc. was exactly what Santa and his Elves ordered! A jolly & festive event filled with holiday giving and all the extra holiday trimmings featured our incredibly talented students who performed a magical musical showcase! Plus, the warmth of donors, volunteers…

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A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO – 2022

Happy New Year We hope that time off during the holidays provided each of you some time to reflect, re-energize, regroup and re-focus… Last year was an extremely BUSY year for OYC – challenging in some ways, yet REWARDING in more ways!  As in last year, the THRILL will be on AGAIN this year…  while I…

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Heritage Fuego by Cochon555

Heritage Fuego event by Cochon555  took place at the legendary Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables on Tuesday, November 9th. The event brought together 20 top chefs to cook over a live fire right before viewer’s eyes. The culinary experience invited hundreds of Miamians to immerse themselves in the finger-lickin’ good fire festival which offered unlimited…

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