The Family Expo -- the largest, free, family resources event in our community-- will be held in late July and early August to help prepare families in need with services and supplies for back to school.

Each year, many parents and caregivers throughout Miami-Dade County eagerly anticipate the summer return of the Children’s Trust Family Expo, the community’s largest free family resource event.

Bigger is not necessarily better anymore, especially when it comes to gatherings. But that doesn’t mean children and families can’t get together, in some sense, for some fun.

While kids are usually enjoying themselves around this time of year reveling in the distractions of summer, this year is different. Or hadn’t you noticed? Back to school has never been bigger!

While kids are usually enjoying themselves around this time of year reveling in the distractions of summer, this year is different. Or hadn’t you noticed? Back to school has never been bigger!

What Is the Children’s Trust? Many of the health care initiatives the Trust supported, including pediatric mobile units and school health clinics, adjusted to offer COVID-19 testing and redirected personnel to support children and families’ health needs. What establishments has The Children’s Trust partnered with, to help the community? What is the Children’s Trust doing to acknowledge racial equality and social justice issues? While the list of challenges seems to be growing in 2021, The Children’s Trust says it is committed to facing them as quickly as they arise.

Tapping into the universal experiences of parenting while figuring out how to manage your individual circumstances as a parent or caregiver is the idea behind The Childrens Trust Parent Club. The main goal of The Parent Club is to help you be the best parent you can be. Since last fall, more than 670 Parent Club workshops have been held at more than 230 locations, bringing together thousands of parents across the county. When coronavirus pandemic restrictions began across Miami-Dade in March, The Parent Club shifted its operations to the virtual world, conducting workshops online through Zoom. Now that Miami-Dade County is reopening cautiously, future plans for The Parent Club include both virtual and in-person workshops, when they are appropriate.

Since 2012, Miami-Dade County 3-year-olds have had access to a book club that offers a free book through the mail every month. The program, The Childrens Trust Book Club, sends a book in English or Spanish on a monthly basis to help prepare children for schooling and life success. Reading books with children supercharges their imagination, helps them develop language and listening skills and has been shown to improve performance in school. We know that the most critical phase of learning happens before kindergarten, said The Childrens Trust president and CEO James R. Haj. As for the books themselves, the book club includes classics, award-winners and picture books to engage even newborns and infants.