LSF Family Focus help Florida communities. Through a variety of social services programs funded through state and federal contracts the dedicated staff work to strengthen families, welcome refugees and immigrants, care for the elderly, counsel teens and families in crisis and run safe place shelters and resource centers.
Miami Bridge is utilized by the community as the axis point of all Miami-Dade County efforts in dealing with kids in crisis who are runaways, truant, homeless or having issues at home. In Miami-Dade County, we are the only emergency home serving kids ages 10 to 17. At the Bridge, we provide a full range of services including in-shelter counseling, field trips, in-home counseling and reunification with family.
Need our help today?Runaway & Homeless Youth Program
The BCP helps create and strengthen community based programs to meet the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth under 18 years old. Miami Bridge BCP tries to reunite young people with their families or locate appropriate alternative placements.
Truancy Diversion Services
Formal education is a crucial key to future success. Miami Bridge Youth & Family Services, Inc. intercedes when Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has exhausted its range of outreach activities to re-engage truant youth.
First Stop for Families Program
When family tensions mount and problems seem overwhelming, this program is designed to provide services to help an array of services to help families stay together.
Emergency Shelter Care
When kids need a place to go, The Bridge is there to provide respite care in its two emergency shelter facilities. We serve more than 500 children in the shelter program each year.
Nurturing Parenting Program
The Nurturing Parenting Program is a 12-week service for parents/caregivers and teens ages 12-17 that addresses the specific needs and challenges faced in parenting adolescents and helps strengthen teen/parent relationships.
Runaway & Homeless Youth Program
The BCP helps create and strengthen community based programs to meet the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth under 18 years old. Miami Bridge BCP tries to reunite young people with their families or locate appropriate alternative placements.
Truancy Diversion Services
Formal education is a crucial key to future success. Miami Bridge Youth & Family Services, Inc. intercedes when Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has exhausted its range of outreach activities to re-engage truant youth.
First Stop for Families Program
When family tensions mount and problems seem overwhelming, this program is designed to provide services to help an array of services to help families stay together.
Emergency Shelter Care
When kids need a place to go, The Bridge is there to provide respite care in its two emergency shelter facilities. We serve more than 500 children in the shelter program each year.
Nurturing Parenting Program
The Nurturing Parenting Program is a 12-week service for parents/caregivers and teens ages 12-17 that addresses the specific needs and challenges faced in parenting adolescents and helps strengthen teen/parent relationships.
Runaway & Homeless Youth Program
The BCP helps create and strengthen community based programs to meet the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth under 18 years old. Miami Bridge BCP tries to reunite young people with their families or locate appropriate alternative placements.
Truancy Diversion Services
Formal education is a crucial key to future success. Miami Bridge Youth & Family Services, Inc. intercedes when Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has exhausted its range of outreach activities to re-engage truant youth.
First Stop for Families Program
When family tensions mount and problems seem overwhelming, this program is designed to provide services to help an array of services to help families stay together.
Emergency Shelter Care
When kids need a place to go, The Bridge is there to provide respite care in its two emergency shelter facilities. We serve more than 500 children in the shelter program each year.
Nurturing Parenting Program
The Nurturing Parenting Program is a 12-week service for parents/caregivers and teens ages 12-17 that addresses the specific needs and challenges faced in parenting adolescents and helps strengthen teen/parent relationships.
Runaway & Homeless Youth Program
The BCP helps create and strengthen community based programs to meet the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth under 18 years old. Miami Bridge BCP tries to reunite young people with their families or locate appropriate alternative placements.
Truancy Diversion Services
Formal education is a crucial key to future success. Miami Bridge Youth & Family Services, Inc. intercedes when Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has exhausted its range of outreach activities to re-engage truant youth.
First Stop for Families Program
When family tensions mount and problems seem overwhelming, this program is designed to provide services to help an array of services to help families stay together.
Emergency Shelter Care
When kids need a place to go, The Bridge is there to provide respite care in its two emergency shelter facilities. We serve more than 500 children in the shelter program each year.
Nurturing Parenting Program
The Nurturing Parenting Program is a 12-week service for parents/caregivers and teens ages 12-17 that addresses the specific needs and challenges faced in parenting adolescents and helps strengthen teen/parent relationships.
Runaway & Homeless Youth Program
The BCP helps create and strengthen community based programs to meet the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth under 18 years old. Miami Bridge BCP tries to reunite young people with their families or locate appropriate alternative placements.
Truancy Diversion Services
Formal education is a crucial key to future success. Miami Bridge Youth & Family Services, Inc. intercedes when Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) has exhausted its range of outreach activities to re-engage truant youth.
First Stop for Families Program
When family tensions mount and problems seem overwhelming, this program is designed to provide services to help an array of services to help families stay together.
Emergency Shelter Care
When kids need a place to go, The Bridge is there to provide respite care in its two emergency shelter facilities. We serve more than 500 children in the shelter program each year.
Nurturing Parenting Program
The Nurturing Parenting Program is a 12-week service for parents/caregivers and teens ages 12-17 that addresses the specific needs and challenges faced in parenting adolescents and helps strengthen teen/parent relationships.
A small donation to Miami Bridge Youth & Family Services, Inc. will help us deliver programs and services that promote positive youth development, strengthen and support families in need and enable children and teenagers to actualize their full potential to become productive members of their community.
Make A DonationLSF MIAMI BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NAMES NEW PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Miami — January 14,2025— LSF Miami Bridge Youth &Family Services is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Toshiba L.Mitchell as Program Director. A distinguished educator, leader and advocate foryouth and families, Dr. Mitchell brings exceptional experience to her role,including a career in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve. She will beresponsible for outreach efforts and will oversee the daily operations of theorganization’s two campus.
“We arethrilled to welcome Dr. Mitchell as the new Program Director of Miami Bridge,”said Raymond Ballinger, Southeast Regional Director, LSF. “It’s a calling andhonor to serve children and families facing hardship. Our work is difficult.Our hours are long and we are kept away from our own families, but the peoplethat do this work are dedicated and our best resource. Dr. Mitchell’s unwaveringdedication to child advocacy and extensive background in education will becrucial in the furtherance of LSF’s mission of building strong, vibrantcommunities.”
LSF MiamiBridge has two 24-hour emergency shelters for children and youthexperiencing traumatic stressors in their life. The goal is to help young peopleremain out of the juvenile justice system through our prevention andintervention activities with individual, family and group counseling. Sometimesparents are pushed to the limit and need our Nurturing Parent Program. A12-week program working with parents on better skills to deal with challengingand risky behaviors. Runaway &Homeless Youth Program focuses on keeping kids off the streets and in safenurturing environments.
Dr. Mitchell was mostrecently Director, Prevention Education and Outreach at Kristi House ChildAdvocacy Center where she spearheaded initiatives that equipped communitieswith knowledge and resources to combat child exploitation and trauma. Herleadership extended from the management of a multidisciplinary team tofostering partnerships with schools, law enforcement and communityorganizations.
She also has more than15 years of experience in higher education, including as Director of DistanceLearning at Florida Memorial University where she had responsibility forprogram development and financial stewardship.
“I am honored to joinLSF and lead the incredible work happening at Miami Bridge. Together, we willcontinue to create safe spaces and transformative programs that will uplift ourcommunity,” said Dr. Mitchell.
Dr. Mitchellserves as a fellow for the University of Miami’s Emerging TransformationalLeadership Program. She received her Doctor of Education in educationalleadership, Master of Science in Education and Bachelor of Science inorganizational leadership from St. Thomas University. She served as a member ofthe U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve.
About LSF
LSFis a statewide nonprofit dedicated to helping the most vulnerable Floridians.We do this by reducing the suicide and drug addiction rate, giving families incrisis the support they need to persevere, and making sure those in poverty getthe education they need to close the achievement gap.
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LSF MIAMI BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NAMES NEW PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Miami — January 14,2025— LSF Miami Bridge Youth &Family Services is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Toshiba L.Mitchell as Program Director. A distinguished educator, leader and advocate foryouth and families, Dr. Mitchell brings exceptional experience to her role,including a career in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve. She will beresponsible for outreach efforts and will oversee the daily operations of theorganization’s two campus.
“We arethrilled to welcome Dr. Mitchell as the new Program Director of Miami Bridge,”said Raymond Ballinger, Southeast Regional Director, LSF. “It’s a calling andhonor to serve children and families facing hardship. Our work is difficult.Our hours are long and we are kept away from our own families, but the peoplethat do this work are dedicated and our best resource. Dr. Mitchell’s unwaveringdedication to child advocacy and extensive background in education will becrucial in the furtherance of LSF’s mission of building strong, vibrantcommunities.”
LSF MiamiBridge has two 24-hour emergency shelters for children and youthexperiencing traumatic stressors in their life. The goal is to help young peopleremain out of the juvenile justice system through our prevention andintervention activities with individual, family and group counseling. Sometimesparents are pushed to the limit and need our Nurturing Parent Program. A12-week program working with parents on better skills to deal with challengingand risky behaviors. Runaway &Homeless Youth Program focuses on keeping kids off the streets and in safenurturing environments.
Dr. Mitchell was mostrecently Director, Prevention Education and Outreach at Kristi House ChildAdvocacy Center where she spearheaded initiatives that equipped communitieswith knowledge and resources to combat child exploitation and trauma. Herleadership extended from the management of a multidisciplinary team tofostering partnerships with schools, law enforcement and communityorganizations.
She also has more than15 years of experience in higher education, including as Director of DistanceLearning at Florida Memorial University where she had responsibility forprogram development and financial stewardship.
“I am honored to joinLSF and lead the incredible work happening at Miami Bridge. Together, we willcontinue to create safe spaces and transformative programs that will uplift ourcommunity,” said Dr. Mitchell.
Dr. Mitchellserves as a fellow for the University of Miami’s Emerging TransformationalLeadership Program. She received her Doctor of Education in educationalleadership, Master of Science in Education and Bachelor of Science inorganizational leadership from St. Thomas University. She served as a member ofthe U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve.
About LSF
LSFis a statewide nonprofit dedicated to helping the most vulnerable Floridians.We do this by reducing the suicide and drug addiction rate, giving families incrisis the support they need to persevere, and making sure those in poverty getthe education they need to close the achievement gap.
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LSF MIAMI BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NAMES NEW PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Miami — January 14,2025— LSF Miami Bridge Youth &Family Services is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Toshiba L.Mitchell as Program Director. A distinguished educator, leader and advocate foryouth and families, Dr. Mitchell brings exceptional experience to her role,including a career in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve. She will beresponsible for outreach efforts and will oversee the daily operations of theorganization’s two campus.
“We arethrilled to welcome Dr. Mitchell as the new Program Director of Miami Bridge,”said Raymond Ballinger, Southeast Regional Director, LSF. “It’s a calling andhonor to serve children and families facing hardship. Our work is difficult.Our hours are long and we are kept away from our own families, but the peoplethat do this work are dedicated and our best resource. Dr. Mitchell’s unwaveringdedication to child advocacy and extensive background in education will becrucial in the furtherance of LSF’s mission of building strong, vibrantcommunities.”
LSF MiamiBridge has two 24-hour emergency shelters for children and youthexperiencing traumatic stressors in their life. The goal is to help young peopleremain out of the juvenile justice system through our prevention andintervention activities with individual, family and group counseling. Sometimesparents are pushed to the limit and need our Nurturing Parent Program. A12-week program working with parents on better skills to deal with challengingand risky behaviors. Runaway &Homeless Youth Program focuses on keeping kids off the streets and in safenurturing environments.
Dr. Mitchell was mostrecently Director, Prevention Education and Outreach at Kristi House ChildAdvocacy Center where she spearheaded initiatives that equipped communitieswith knowledge and resources to combat child exploitation and trauma. Herleadership extended from the management of a multidisciplinary team tofostering partnerships with schools, law enforcement and communityorganizations.
She also has more than15 years of experience in higher education, including as Director of DistanceLearning at Florida Memorial University where she had responsibility forprogram development and financial stewardship.
“I am honored to joinLSF and lead the incredible work happening at Miami Bridge. Together, we willcontinue to create safe spaces and transformative programs that will uplift ourcommunity,” said Dr. Mitchell.
Dr. Mitchellserves as a fellow for the University of Miami’s Emerging TransformationalLeadership Program. She received her Doctor of Education in educationalleadership, Master of Science in Education and Bachelor of Science inorganizational leadership from St. Thomas University. She served as a member ofthe U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve.
About LSF
LSFis a statewide nonprofit dedicated to helping the most vulnerable Floridians.We do this by reducing the suicide and drug addiction rate, giving families incrisis the support they need to persevere, and making sure those in poverty getthe education they need to close the achievement gap.
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LSF MIAMI BRIDGE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES NAMES NEW PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Miami — January 14,2025— LSF Miami Bridge Youth &Family Services is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Toshiba L.Mitchell as Program Director. A distinguished educator, leader and advocate foryouth and families, Dr. Mitchell brings exceptional experience to her role,including a career in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve. She will beresponsible for outreach efforts and will oversee the daily operations of theorganization’s two campus.
“We arethrilled to welcome Dr. Mitchell as the new Program Director of Miami Bridge,”said Raymond Ballinger, Southeast Regional Director, LSF. “It’s a calling andhonor to serve children and families facing hardship. Our work is difficult.Our hours are long and we are kept away from our own families, but the peoplethat do this work are dedicated and our best resource. Dr. Mitchell’s unwaveringdedication to child advocacy and extensive background in education will becrucial in the furtherance of LSF’s mission of building strong, vibrantcommunities.”
LSF MiamiBridge has two 24-hour emergency shelters for children and youthexperiencing traumatic stressors in their life. The goal is to help young peopleremain out of the juvenile justice system through our prevention andintervention activities with individual, family and group counseling. Sometimesparents are pushed to the limit and need our Nurturing Parent Program. A12-week program working with parents on better skills to deal with challengingand risky behaviors. Runaway &Homeless Youth Program focuses on keeping kids off the streets and in safenurturing environments.
Dr. Mitchell was mostrecently Director, Prevention Education and Outreach at Kristi House ChildAdvocacy Center where she spearheaded initiatives that equipped communitieswith knowledge and resources to combat child exploitation and trauma. Herleadership extended from the management of a multidisciplinary team tofostering partnerships with schools, law enforcement and communityorganizations.
She also has more than15 years of experience in higher education, including as Director of DistanceLearning at Florida Memorial University where she had responsibility forprogram development and financial stewardship.
“I am honored to joinLSF and lead the incredible work happening at Miami Bridge. Together, we willcontinue to create safe spaces and transformative programs that will uplift ourcommunity,” said Dr. Mitchell.
Dr. Mitchellserves as a fellow for the University of Miami’s Emerging TransformationalLeadership Program. She received her Doctor of Education in educationalleadership, Master of Science in Education and Bachelor of Science inorganizational leadership from St. Thomas University. She served as a member ofthe U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve.
About LSF
LSFis a statewide nonprofit dedicated to helping the most vulnerable Floridians.We do this by reducing the suicide and drug addiction rate, giving families incrisis the support they need to persevere, and making sure those in poverty getthe education they need to close the achievement gap.
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