Florida Dream Center, Inc.

The Florida Dream Center is a multifaceted organization providing a wide   array of services to residents and homeless that need them most. A food pantry that started from a couple refrigerators,  now distributes over 80,000 pounds of food on a monthly basis. Florida Dream Center food pantry is unique in the fact that we're mobile. We take food in the areas that need it most. At a recent Walk the Block for Hunger, we raised awareness about hunger and educated on food deserts. These are places were access to grocery stores is limited. Pinellas Country has five poverty pockets. We are currently providing food to 2 of the 5 poverty pockets, Lealman and Tarpon Springs. We are looking to expand into a third location in 2020.

Florida Dream Center is much more than food. Adopt-a-Block takes places every Saturday in Lealman and East Tarpon Springs. The Adopt-a-Block program goes out in the community and provides assistance in several different ways. We go door to door asking residents what their needs are and then another team goes back to do household repairs, painting, lawn maintenance. We've done community clean up projects, along with hurricane relief projects. Adopt-a-Block is one of the avenues in which we do food distribution. We also distribute donated clothing, health, hygiene, and cleaning products as well. 

We have a case manager who connects to the resources they need to be connected with to achieve self-sufficiency. We help families find homes. We help addicts get the treatment they need. Additionally, we have a Work Readiness program to help give individuals the skills they need to go out and get jobs to support themselves. 

 With your donation we seek to sustain existing programs and to continue to help the broken and hurting, not just survive but succeed, and attain complete self-sufficiency.