There’s no I in team and this group is worthy of the love and respect!! Great time was had at Est. 33 Thai Craft Kitchen and Brewery in Brickell City Center! Our team gathered (socially distant) to celebrate the holiday season and the success achieved...
Our families had an eventful and exciting afternoon making some holiday memories! We invited Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine Inc. families and staff for a holiday family portrait mini session at the Courtside Apartments in Overtown. This fundraiser helps us continue our programs and...
NBWA in partnership with the Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine Inc. surprised 13 families with a holiday toy drive on December 4th in Doral. In addition to toys, food from Shannon Allens’s Grown Restaurant was also distributed and enjoyed! The organic farm to fork...
This holiday season was off the charts! YnG DnA teamed up with Wade Family Foundation on its 1st Annual Shop With YnG DnA Event, surprising 10 of our Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine students with a $150 shopping spree this holiday season! Our students...
Overtown Youth Center continues to thrive in helping parents and families achieve their career goals through our banking training! We congratulate our UnidosUS graduates, who embarked on their banking career journey on December 9th at the Center for Black Innovation. Our success is made possible...
Our community partner, Overtown Children & Youth Coalition (OCYC) donated laptops to 11 of our Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine Inc. students, grades kindergarten through 2nd grade. Students were pleasantly surprised when they learned they would be participating in a STEM activity where they...
We celebrated at the Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School a key partnership with Payless Shoes under the remarkable leadership of CEO Jared Margolis & his team, and our long-standing supporter Bank of America, by hand delivering $25,000 Payless vouchers! Faculty, teachers and their...
So much good news to share as our team grows and thrives within our organization! This is what our dreams are made of at the Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine Inc.! We feel an immense sense of gratification to experience the growth and development...
We are beaming with pride as our Overtown Youth Center Alumna, Quan, has earned her Masters of Social Work from Barry University with a focus on trauma informed care. Quan started our programs as a 2nd grader, which has allowed us to have witnessed her...
Please join us in congratulating Jeanice Princess Escarment, a Honey Bug Alumna of Honey Shine Inc., as she prepares for the grand opening of her storefront shop, Princess Shop, in North Miami on January 20th 2022! With an entrepreneurial spirit that she garnered from her...
Mourning Family Foundation’s Annual Holiday party presented by Overtown Youth Center and Honey Shine Inc. was exactly what Santa and his Elves ordered! A jolly & festive event filled with holiday giving and all the extra holiday trimmings featured our incredibly talented students who performed...
Happy New Year We hope that time off during the holidays provided each of you some time to reflect, re-energize, regroup and re-focus… Last year was an extremely BUSY year for OYC - challenging in some ways, yet REWARDING in more ways! As in last year, the THRILL...
Heritage Fuego event by Cochon555 took place at the legendary Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables on Tuesday, November 9th. The event brought together 20 top chefs to cook over a live fire right before viewer's eyes. The culinary experience invited hundreds of Miamians to immerse...
A group of our OYC high school students were granted the opportunity to take part in the Nicklaus Children’s Health System Project GE:NES, (Project GENES | Nicklaus Children's Hospital (nicklauschildrens.org) , an 8-week program funded by the Miami Dolphins Foundation, aimed at increasing genomic literacy...
Chairwoman of our Board, Michelle Febres made a surprise visit to Williams Park to read to the children and families we serve. Our Story Time at Eden Place program supports efforts to facilitate reading for families throughout South Florida, specifically for Pre-K-1st graders. The children...
On November 18th, our OYC and Honey Shine teams along with several board members hosted a Hard Hat Tour of the construction site of our new facility, slated to open its doors during the second quarter in 2022. There were over 50 individuals in attendance;...
We are months away from finishing the construction of our new building and completing our Capital Campaign project. Members of our executive team are now meeting weekly with the construction and development teams, to prepare for the final stages and details of the facility and...
For the first time in over a year our OYC team was able to host an in- person executive Board Meeting with our members. The pandemic has caused us to alter many elements of or lives, yet the unrelenting dedication of our board members has...
On Monday, November 22nd representatives from LVMH joined our elementary and middle school students for a “Day of Gratitude” arts and crafts project. The project helped students open up and express how grateful they are for family, friends, the OYC team and special people who...
Together we are bridging the gap this holiday season. For many families in our community, the impact of this pandemic continues to affect the needs of their household. This is why partnerships and support like the one from Vitas Healthcare are so important in helping...
Our partners and friends from La Rosa Realty joined our team for a second year in a row to provide over 100 baskets to families for this Thanksgiving holiday. The baskets, which are packed and decorated by their team, were filled with all the Thanksgiving...
