Achievement Matters is a coordinated, intensified and sustained effort to raise the achievement levels and strengthen the social skills of Black Americans and Urban youth in the Miami Dade County Public School System. It implements community education, mobilization and advocacy initiatives that support youth and hold policy-makers accountable for delivering schools and programs that work. Our programs include, Read & Rise, Pass Holmes Elementary School, Graduation & Retention, National Achievers Society, Financial Aid/College Enrichment Assistance, PSAT/SAT Test Camps, Scholarship/Mentorship Program and tutorials at Lincoln Fields. Sponsored by United Way of Miami-Dade County

African Square Children’s Initiative is a free program providing support, psychological services, workshops and activities for children and residents of Liberty Square Housing. Sponsored by Miami-Dade County Department of Human Services, Fisher Island Philanthropic Fund with services provided by Institute for Child and Family Health. Black-on-Black Crime Prevention Program is a public awareness and educational effort to motivate the Black community to support, promote and participate in crime prevention programs and activities. Sponsored by the Office of the Attorney General of Florida Clara B. Knight Childhood Learning & Development Center provides quality affordable developmentally appropriate care for children zero to five years. The is open 24 hours per day, seven days a week.

Family Computer Learning Laboratory is a collaboration of various partners, including the Department of Housing & Urban Development, Miami Dade County Public School, Miami Dade Community College North Campus and State Farm Insurance Company. The lab supports learning through a series of educational initiatives tailored to combat illiteracy, enhance learning and initiate computer literacy. Rainbow Club Home Visiting Initiative is a health orientated, neighborhood outreach effort designed to improve the life chance factors for at-risk adolescent mothers and infants. The initiative offers individualized home contact with participants during pregnancy and for a period of twelve months following delivery. Sponsored by Our Kids of Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties and the Fisher Island Philanthropic Foundation. 79th Street Corridor Neighborhood Initiative, Inc. is an effort to transform Miami Dade County’s 79th Street Corridor from a fragment set of residential, commercial and industrial sites with a reputation as dangerous and undesirable into a cohesive neighborhood, conscious of its tangible and intangible assets and directing its future. The initiative is led by three local community based development organizations- ULGM, Miami Dade Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc, and Dade Employment Development Corporation- in partnership with the Center for Neighborhood Technology.

State Youth Crime Prevention & Intervention offers a series of activities implemented to deter at-risk youth of criminal involvement. Meaningful individual and group activities are offered as an alternative to crime and incarceration. Sponsored by the Office of the Attorney General of Florida ULGM/Economic Opportunity Family Health Center Asthma Intervention Relief Program provides valuable education and asthma management supplies to underserved families in the Liberty City area. Families enrolled in the program receive supplies to help monitor their child’s asthma. Counseling is also available. A partnership of the ULGM and the Economic Opportunity Family Health Center, sponsored by the Health Foundation of South Florida ULGM/Economic Opportunity Family Health Center Community Clinic Initiative provides basic medical service to the residents of Urban League owned apartments and the neighborhoods adjacent to the UL’s Senior Citizen Villa, Covenant Palms. 8400 NW 25th Avenue, Miami FL 33147 305-696-2322