Volunteer Calendar

New Horizons Community Mental Health Center, a longtime partner of United Way and a community-based organization serving a federally designated area of poverty, began operations in Miami-Dade County in March of 1974. The center was established to provide culturally sensitive and accessible services to its multiethnic catchment area. Join our 9500 for 95 challenge as part of United Way of Miami-Dade's yearlong communitywide celebration of volunteerism. You play a key role in shaping our community and your involvement is essential to our mission. Enlist your team, friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues, and join us in our fight for a stronger Miami. Volunteers will help restore dignity to New Horizons and provide a welcoming space for their clients by revitalizing their campus that provides direct access to behavioral health resources. This is primarily painting outdoors.

We need your help to restore environmentally sensitive lands in Miami-Dade County! The Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) programs manages over 26,000 acres all over the county, including critically imperiled pine rocklands. It's not easy - but together, we will help protect and restore our rare native habitats by removing invasive plants, enhancing trails, restoring native vegetation, and conducting cleanup activities. You can get involved by joining one of our workdays scheduled from September to June. Volunteers are taught to identiy various invasive non-native plants while gaining a greater understanding of the local habitats and rare ecosystems unique to South Florida. Please email our Volunteer Manager at eel@miamidade.gov to register.

The Miami-Dade County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is in need of volunteers to assist with taking calls from Assisted Living Facilities. For Protective Actions in response to Coronavirus, we will be documenting information and need assistance. Assisted Living Facilities will be calling the Call Center to provide information related to how many people they provide food for. Volunteers will be provided with a script. As a reminder, please stay home if you are displaying any symptoms, keep a reasonable distance from others, and wash hands often. Please visit http://www.floridahealth.gov/ or https://unitedwaymiami.org/coronavirus/ for additional information. To register, please visit https://bit.ly/2IIqDX3

On March 12, 2020, Sant La and the Haitian American Complete Count Committee 2020 will conduct a community outreach campaign to motivate the North Miami community to respond to the Census. Volunteers are needed to distribute flyers, talk to residents within the city of North Miami's commercial corridors at supermarkets, laundromats, barber shops and beauty parlors. Training will be offered prior to canvassing. This is an opportunity to assist efforts to bring in more resources to a community where 70% of the children live in poverty (according to the ALICE report). By having an accurate population count in our communities, we will be able to increase the availability of services (education, health, transportation etc.). By supporting the Census, it is one of the most powerful contribution we can do to building strong and sustainable communities. This is the first of 3 more major outreach activities in this area. Our objectives are as follows: Increase count of Haitians in Miami-Dade Increase count of older adults and children 0-5 Educate community about Census Provide assistance to complete the Census questionnaire

Currently, we have a need for volunteers to respond to the impacts and community implications of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Note that United Way of Miami-Dade continues to closely monitor and evaluate the situation to ensure we are taking necessary measures to protect the health and wellbeing of our volunteers. We will update you regarding the status of this volunteer opportunity should anything change. Feeding South Florida/Feeding Palm Beach is committed to serving families in need of assistance and we are preparing to do more for our community. Volunteers in good health, who have not been in contact with individuals showing signs of illness related to COVID-19, are needed to assist with the inspecting, sorting and repacking of donated food. Volunteers will also be building meal boxes for distribution.