The SHARE Program
The SHARE (Self Help and Resource Exchange) program is a food cooperative that helps households stretch their food budgets and increase their access to nutritious foods. For just $18 a month, households can purchase food that would cost them $40 or more in stores. The food is the same quality found in grocery stores.

Please contact your area Beacon Center to participate in the SHARE program.

Pahokee Beacon Center
Tuesdays at Pahokee Beacon Center
8:30 am-4:30pm
560 East Main Pl.
Pahokee, Florida 33476

Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies has now co-located to the Pahokee Beacon Center. Services will be provided on Tuesdays of each week from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This collaboration of services enables Pahokee moms-to-be and future dads access to an array of prenatal and parenting services. 

HMHB is a prenatal, community-oriented program that ensures women are enrolled with a health provider for prenatal care and can access additional social services, outreach programs for high-risk, hard-to-reach women, and hospital liaisons to inform and register new moms for Healthy Start. 

HMHB also bring a variety of other components to include the Male Health Advocate program, classes that encourages male involvement during pregnancy; Conflict Resolution, classes that teach elementary school children how to handle conflict; and Babysitting 101, a class that teaches adolescents the basics of babysitting and child safety and development. 

Pahokee Beacon is committed to becoming the hub for community and social services, reducing transportation disparities and enhancing the quality of life through service access.

For more details, please call (561) 452-6338 or (561) 924-3008.

Riviera Beach Family Resource Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:  Carolyn Morrison, Executive Director  Date: March 25, 2009
Riviera Beach Family Resource Center (RBFRC)
Phone: 561-840-1888
Fax: 561-840-9009
cmorrison1@bellsouth.net

The Riviera Beach Family Resource Center plans “Bringing All People Together” A Multicultural Event
Riviera Beach, Florida  - The Riviera Beach Family Resource Center(RBFRC) is pleased to announce “Bringing All People Together: A  Multi-Cultural Event”,  to be held Saturday,  May 9, 2009, (12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.) at the City of Riviera Beach Municipal Complex, 600 West Blue Heron Boulevard, Riviera Beach, Florida.

This event is being conducted in collaboration with other local organizations and social service agencies and the City of Riviera Beach as well as a group of dedicated sponsors including Florida Power & Light Company, Palm Beach Post, Fox TV, Publix, and others.
This multi-cultural event will provide a forum for focusing on community pride and unity within the rich diversity that is represented in the Riviera Beach and Palm Beach county community.  The event provides an opportunity for representatives of the various cultures, groups and individuals to feature different aspects of their heritage through the various mediums (food, entertainment, music, displays, etc.)

 This event provides a forum to assure that all participants are more aware of the cultures that make up our community.  It represents an affirmation of the values and virtues of our community which consist of many cultures.  We are different, but we are one community.

We encourage all to enrich themselves in participating in the activities represented, sharing our cultural heritage, talents, music, food, skills and perspectives through this very special event.
The Riviera Beach Family Resource Center provides supportive services to children and families residing in the Riviera Beach and Palm Beach County area. The Center provides academic assistance (homework and FCAT tutorial) to children and features financial management, health and wellness and home improvement workshops for families.   The Center is certified by the Nonprofits First.

The Riviera Beach Family Resource Center is funded by the Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County.  The Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County is a special district of local government created in 1986 by local referendum to plan, develop, fund and evaluate primary prevention and early intervention programs for children and families in our county.  The expected outcomes are children who are born healthy, are free of abuse and neglect through age five, enter school ready and eager to learn and thriving in after-school programs.

Click here for flyer.

Contact:  Carolyn Morrison, Executive Director      561-840-1888

JFK Middle Beacon Center
The John F. Kennedy Beacon Center provides a Youth Leadership Development Program that is comprised of two components: On Monday’s and Wednesday’s we offer Leadership Education and on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s we offer Taking Care of Business.

We use a process that prepares young people to meet the challenges of adolescence through a coordinated series of trainings, Internships and service learning projects.
We focus on College Prep, Entrepreneurship Development, Career Exploration, while teaching young people all aspects of running a successful business.

During the week of Spring Break these components come together when we go on our annual tour of various colleges and universities. 

This year 31 of our young men visited nine schools in three states.  We toured Auburn and Tuskegee in Alabama, FAMU and Florida State University in Tallahassee, Clark, Georgia Tech and Morehouse in Atlanta, as well as, Fort Valley State and Albany State also in Georgia. 

Thirty-seven of our young women flew round-trip from West Palm Beach to Memphis, TN. Needless to say, for some of our students this was their very first time on an airplane. During this wonderful week we had the privilege to tour Rust College, LeMoyne-Owen College and The University of Memphis. Sightseeing opportunities allowed us to visit Memphis attractions like Beale Street, the Memphis Rock N Soul Museum, Fed-Ex Forum and the time-honored tradition of seeing the Peabody Ducks march in the Grand Lobby of The Peabody Hotel. Of course, no visit to Memphis would be complete without a tour of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel. 

We met our aim of creating interest in higher education for each of these participants.
We fulfilled our mission of exposing them to college and broadening their choices in pursuing a post-secondary education. During the tour, students received information on tuition and financial aid, ways that they can prepare themselves for college, and a glimpse at what campus life is like, including housing and extra curricular activities.

We challenged them to expand their mind-set, they saw college life first-hand, helping them to one day make an educated decision about what’s best for them.

Once admitted, most of our students will be first generation college students. Therefore, as you can see, these college tours provided students of the JFK Beacon Center with an invaluable experience. By putting the information they need right at their fingertips, our students, both middle and high school can feel confident that higher education is a legitimate option for them and a four year degree is attainable.

South Grade Beacon Center
Event:        Youth Advisory Council (YAC)Community Service
Date:         4/22/09
Time:        2:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Place:       Children’s Hospital at St Mary’s Medical Center, West Palm Beach
South Grade Beacon YAC program visited the Children’s Hospital.    The YAC program participated in an educational tour of the Children’s Hospital and distributed  Build-A-Bears to the patients. 

Event:       Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Tour
Date:        4/23/09
Time:        2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Place:       Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
South Grade Beacon Center Teen In Action program toured Florida Atlantic University. 

Northmore Beacon Center
Event:     Community Family Event – Earth Day
Date:       April 18, 2009
Time:      9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Northmore Beacon Center’s Earth Day Event provided an opportunity for the community to accept responsibility and ownership within their neighborhood. The event included participants from the school, community and Beacon Center families. Families, community and Beacon Staff walked around The Northwood area picking up trash from 9:00am until 12:00pm. The event culminated in complimentary hotdogs right off the grill!

Childwatch is always Free and offered at each event.

For more information on any workshop/event, please contact Hallie Balbuena at 561-840-3106 or hallie.Balbuena@chsfl.org