MIAMI (WSVN) – Local radio station 99 JAMZ is helping fill a community need, and doing so in a fun way. The station’s annual Back to School Backpack Tour is back on the road, just in time to help South Florida students in need of supplies before classes start in a few weeks. “We just…
DetailsMIAMI – A group of high school students gasped when Michelle Obama walked into Miami’s Overtown Youth Center. The former first lady visit was hours before her Friday night appearance at the BB&T Center in Sunrise to promote her memoir. During her promotional tour of “Becoming,” she has filled large arenas nationwide including Chicago’s United Center, the…
DetailsFormer First Lady Michelle Obama Surprises South Florida Students at Overtown Youth Center, as she tours South Florida promoting her book “Becoming.”
High school students Hilairee Lubin and Andres Arcia are working this summer for an accounting firm. They got their jobs as part of a program that links youths ages 16 to 19, many from the Overtown area, with work opportunities with summer employers. Hilairee, a rising junior at Booker T. Washington High School, works with…
DetailsMIAMI (WSVN) – Gun violence was the main topic of an annual event at the Overtown Youth Center that aims to help young men in the community. Jamari Wright, one of the young participants at Friday’s Save Our Sons program, said the event helps build relationships. “It makes me feel safe because I always can…
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The power to inspire others to excel is in each of us. As Mother Teresa famously said, “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
At the seventh annual Save Our Sons Youth Summit, young men spent a day acquiring skills in how to excel and better themselves through workshops, activities, an inspirational speaker, and communication with male mentors and role models.
They learned how to tie a necktie while talking about their interests at a workshop called “The Ties that Bond Us.” Every young man also received the gift of a tie.
DetailsBeneath the scar tissue of the giant gash through the heart of Miami known as Interstate 95 are a series of dark and dreary underpasses. These intimidating, wasted spaces, suitable only for trolls, could connect neighborhoods instead of dividing them if only they were enlivened with color and light. Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente see…
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MIAMI, FL — AT&T recently delivered a surprise check for $25,000 to the Overtown Youth Center’s 4th Annual Save Our Sons (SOS) Youth Summit. “AT&T believes it is critical for students to have access to the tools and support systems they need to graduate high school, and succeed in college and they enter the workforce,”…
DetailsWith the help of teaching artists, the students utilized a non-traditional, but very familiar material – plastic yard signage. Typically utilized for political campaigns and advertisements, these young artists created visual messages inspired by public art and spaces.
STAFF REPORT— JUNE 8, 2017 Left to right: Javier Alberto Soto, President of The Miami Foundation; Tina Brown, Executive Director of Overtown Youth Center; Yance Torres, Development Director of Overtown Youth Center and Stephen Marino, Board Chair of Overtown Youth Center at the foundation’s 50th Anniversary Signature Grants Awards Ceremony, held June 2. PHOTO COURTESY…
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