Betty Alonso, President and CEO
ConnectFamilias is built on the premise that children do better when their families are strong, and parents do better when they live in places that help them succeed. ConnectFamilias is a backbone organization whose mission is to build equitable, inclusive, healthy communities where children and families thrive. ConnectFamilias work was born in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood that traditionally has served as an entry neighborhood for the Latinx diaspora families looking to make Miami-Dade their home. Today ConnectFamilias work has expanded to surrounding areas but remains rooted in the Latinx communities it serves.
Anthony L. Robinson, Executive Director
Overtown Youth & Children Coalition was formed in 2012 as a backbone organization in a collective impact framework, in order to addressing the needs of Overtown’s children in a more holistic manner, a focus designed to move away from the service-based structure that addressed needs in siloes and towards a collective impact and systems-level approach. The Coalition is formally partnered with UM to examine IDEAS Consortium equity-based resiliency mapping and convene local focus groups providing insight about neighborhood-level child resiliency factors.
Gepsie M. Metellus, Executive Director & Leonie Hermantin, Director of Development, communications and strategic planning
Sant La was founded in 2000 to address the chronic lack of access to services resulting from the Haitian community's socio-linguistic isolation. Sant La is formally partnered with UM to examine IDEAS Consortium equity-based resiliency mapping and convene local focus groups providing insight about neighborhood-level child resiliency factors. Sant La also partners with UM/IDEAS Consortium to customize and pilot a mapping app for Haitian parents, integrating diverse early childhood education resources in the Miami-Dade Northeast Corridor in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.
