Civic - Services - Miami, Florida, USA

Support for human needs and infrastructure

• Human: Health and human services
  • Alliance for Aging: Information for seniors in Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties; for a better, healthier life
  • Childrens Trust: funding programs; goal is to improve the lives of children and families; dial 211 for the Children’s Trust Helpline
  • HFSF: Health Foundation of South Florida; philanthropy giving grants and program support to advance the health of people in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties
  • Preparedness: Get Ready for Hurricane Season; planning and information for before, during, and after storms
  • Switchboard: Switchboard of Miami; Miami-Dade County telephone crisis counseling; suicide prevention; individual and family counseling services and prevention
  • Team Metro: facilitates Miami-Dade County services
  • -USA Human-: National Health and Human services; you can use these directories to find doctors, hospitals, dentists, and other health and human services
• Facilities: Institutions, units, organizations, or systems that build, distribute, plan, or and keep area resources or infrastructure working
  • FL P&L: Florida Power & Light; electric utilities
  • MPO: Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization; plan transportation facilities and services
  • SFRPC: South Florida Regional Planning Council; works for sustainability, connectivity, and responsibility for the region
  • Water: Miami-Dade Water and Sewer
• Transport: Miami offers a variety of transit options
  • Airports: Miami-Dade Aviation Department airports; Miami International Airport (MIA) (principal airport), Opa-locka Airport (OPF), Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport (TMB), Homestead General Aviation Airport (X51), and Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport (TNT)
  • FLL Airport: Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport; about 30 km north of downtown Miami in Broward County
  • Port: Dante B. Fascell Port of Miami-Dade; facilities for cargo shipping and cruise lines
  • SF RTA: South Florida Regional Transportation Authority; serving Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties
  • MD Transit: Miami-Dade County transit services; includes Metrobus, Metrorail (county-wide fixed-rail), Metromover (downtown-specific fixed rail), and Paratransit
  • Tri-Rail: commuter rail; South Florida Regional Transportation Authority
  • Metromover: downtown automated people-mover system; connects with Metrorail at Government Center and Brickell stations; 20 Metromover stations
  • Metrorail: elevated rapid transit system; runs through South Miami, Coral Gables, and downtown Miami; connections to Broward and Palm Beach counties at the Tri-Rail/Metrorail transfer station
  • Commuter Svs: Florida Commuter Services; commuter assistance programs; and information
  • Amtrak: Passenger rail; Miami station is at 8303 NW 37th Ave
  • Greyhound: National, commercial bus transit company; offers connections throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico
  • GotoBus: Bus reservation system; buses connecting many cities including Miami
  • SuperShuttle: door to door airport ground transportation
  • MPO: Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization; plan transportation facilities and services; transportation studies
  • FLDOT: Florida Department of Transportation
  • GO: Go Miami Dade Transportation information; shows links relevant to travel by air, land, sea, and accessible services

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