Miami-Dade County

between public and commercial space is being blurred as cities are being redeveloped and developers attempt to change the social topography of a city, by ignoring the problem of homelessness and trying to send it away. By studying how the homeless of Miami perceive the city’s recent and ongoing changes, we hope to add to the literature a missing piece of understanding on how people perceive their own situation and add qualitative data from this a different part of the united states.…

Background The Institute of Medicine Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health issued a report that distinguished the impacts public health in the United States. The committee determined that in order to improve health outcomes in the United States we will have to alter the way this nation invests in public health. Basically, put more resources toward population-based prevention efforts; population-based prevention requires stable funding for public health departments. Local health…

people living in South Florida to migrate to other cities, towns and countries outside of South Florida. One source wrote “Mandatory evacuation orders are in place for parts of Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Palm Beach County, Brevard County, and Monroe County. They affect nearly 650,000 people in the Miami-Dade county alone, and more than 1.3 million overall,”(The massive evacuation effort in South Florida has millions feeling Hurricane Irma, www.vox.com).…

Orange County has led the state in juvenile arrests, according to a new state report. There were 6,547 juvenile arrests in Orange County in the 12-month period that ended June 30, according to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice in a report released Nov. 14. That's 38 percent more than Miami-Dade, where the population is nearly double. Orange County is Florida's fifth largest as measured by population, but it has had more juvenile arrests each of the past two years than the counties that…

If I were ever given the opportunity to devote an entire year to community service, I believe I would start a new community garden here in Miami-Dade County. My reasons for my choice of doing a community garden include fighting food insecurity and promoting healthy living. My choice of location is due partly to needs of the populace, my knowledge of the area in which I work, and the support I would receive from family and friends. Whatever project or service I volunteer for will always be…

coach for struggling schools can be a challenge; however, I have made great strides rising to any challenge and proving to be a high impact educator. My experience in education and instructional leadership is diverse. I have served on the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Standardized Testing and Assessment of Educational Progress Committee. With a focus on research and evidence-based practices in English Language Arts, I have conducted professional developments and facilitated professional…

At 2:13pm on April 21th, 2018, Dispatch received a 911 call regarding a stabbing at 19611 SW 134th Ct Miami, FL 33177 at 2:09pm. The caller identified herself as Stephanie Little the victims neighbor. Miami-Dade Police (Officer R. Martinez #5675) was dispatched and arrived on scene with EMS at 2:18pm. After the victim Terry Brown age 68 was taken away by EMS and reported D.O.A at Jackson South Community Hospital, R/O secured the scene and contacted Dispatch to requested backup. I, Investigator…

We used to call it the Vistas. Everyday afterschool my friends and I rode the school bus through Miami-Dade until we got to the vistas at Walden Pond. Walden Pond was a place located on county line road. The county line split Dade and Broward County from each other. The vistas at Walden Pond were surrounded by lakes and a very noisy highway. A barbershop and a corner store was right down the street, as well as the supermarket Winn-Dixie. Home to many people of different ethnicities and…

Miami-Dade County was one of the first and most successful school districts in Miami to develop an art therapy program. The Pilot Program combined art education and art therapy with increased federal funding for special education services in public schools. The success of the program provided additional art therapists with specialized staff development for the art teachers, while eliminating the art education classroom component. The art therapist’s role then involved assessments, interventions…

unadopted animals so that they can obtain new ones. Every animal deserves the chance to live its life without it being stolen from them to maximize space. United States animal shelters and humane societies across the country including Midland County, Miami-Dade, and North Little Rock, have made the decision to put down cats and dogs because of the issue of limited space, but with the help of so many organizations and volunteers, less animals are being euthanized. This cold-blooded and heartless…