Services For Communities | Services For Parents | Services For Youth

These services provide family support for youth and parents in their own neighborhood. Strengthening a neighborhood or community occurs on two levels, one with the people who make up the community and the other with the resources (schools, faith organizations, hospitals, community centers etc.) that support those people. Our basic principles are to provide parents and youth with education and support that build upon their existing strengths, and to provide services that build stronger, healthier communities.

The services BETA Center provides for communities
"Neighborhood Connections" - help link families and community resources together where previously relationships have not existed or have been ineffective. Services are used to create a community environment which promotes healthy lifestyles, resiliency and self-sufficiency for children and parents. Services include community outreach, resource and referral and family needs assessments. Because our programs cannot meet all the needs of families, we collaborate with other agencies to facilitate families' access to additional resources. The Neighborhood Services program has the flexibility to provide the full program or offer individual service components based on the need and request of each community.

BETA Center is a successful collaborator because our focus is on flexibility, not on bricks and mortar. Collaboration increases the resources to a community, increases efficiency and reduces duplication of services. We all have an expertise and by working together, we increase the level of support to families. Neighborhoods with high needs are often identified first by funders who have conducted comprehensive community assessments. BETA Center is pleased to be partnering with two area funders to help some of Orlando's most needy families.

		W.O.W.S. - (West Orlando/Washington Shores) Partnership is a fixed collaboration with Esteem Inc., Boys & Girls Boca Club, Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association and Foster Grandparents sponsored by Heart of Florida United Way. Together we provide a continuum of services including parent education, youth development services and after school programs, legal rights education and
employment skills. BETA Center has been a coordinating agency since this coalition was formed in 1998.