Sant La provides a series of workshops entitled “From Saving to Asset Building” designed to enhance asset building skills. Topics covered include budget management, credit cards, mortgages and loans. Through the Prosperity Campaign, Sant La provides tax return assistance for community members.
 

Sant La assists other community-based organizations by providing non-profit agency leaders and staff members with effective training for core management skills.
 

Sant La provides school-based and church-based civic skills training sessions explaining the structure of American government. Sant La hosts adult and youth forums designed to promote community involvement. Through neighborhood walk-throughs, jitney rides and church presentations Sant La encourages community members to articulate their needs and participate in decisions that affect their daily lives.
 

Sant La offers assistance and information to Haitian families and community members about important initiatives and topical issues such as parenting, disaster recovery, crime and victimization, wellness, subsidized health care coverage and transportation.
 

In order to better assist the members of the Haitian community, Sant La has developed the Sant La Providers Network. This is a group of partners strategically selected to help address the specific needs of the Haitian community.
 

Sant La has produced numerous publications such as the “Working Papers Series”, Health Care Needs and Issues in Little Haiti, and the South Florida Haitian Community Resource Directory. Additionally, Sant La was acknowledged as the driving force behind the Brookings Institution publication, The Haitian Community in Miami-Dade: A Growing the Middle Class Supplement. These publications have greatly contributed to the body of data about the Haitian community in South Florida. Click here for our list of publications.
 

Sant La’s staff actively advocates for educational improvement and community involvement in neighborhood schools. In addition to a situational awareness and informational outreach campaign, staff members are serving on the advisory committees (EESACs) of several schools in the Little Haiti area.
 

Our Archives collection continues to grow as we document the growth and evolving nature of the Haitian community in South Florida in a variety of media. Sharing space with the Archives is a non-profit resource library that contains a wide variety of publications, tools and information for use by neighborhood organizations and agencies.
 

Sant La promotes access to health services through a number of programs. These programs include Community Health Workers who do outreach and connect clients to necessary health services in the Haitian community. Sant La also provides client assistance in preparing Medicaid and KidCare applications in our office and at health fairs.
 

Sant La offers information and referral services to the Haitians and Haitian Americans in Little Haiti community and throughout Southern Florida.