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Miami-Dade Community Action and Human Services details services, warns of looming grant cuts
Summary
Director Sonia Grice told the county committee that the department runs large Head Start and nutrition programs and prevents evictions, but faces significant reductions in federal and state grant funding and is pushing technology and partnerships to maintain services.
Sonia Grice, director of the Community Action and Human Services Department, told the Miami‑Dade County Government Operations and Fiscal (GET) committee that her department runs the county’s largest social‑service programs and faces “a significant reduction in grant funding” from federal and state sources.
Grice said Community Action and Human Services — which she described as nationally accredited and serving all 13 county commission districts — operates one of the nation’s largest Head Start programs, a summer meals program and four state‑certified domestic violence shelters. “Our mission goes beyond providing services. We’re here to ignite empowerment through comprehensive support and unwavering commitment,” Grice said.
The department presented a string of program statistics the director said illustrate its scope: roughly 13,500 children served by the summer meals program at about 340 sites; more than…
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