In 2006 The Children's Trust was established in Miami-Dade County with taxpayer funds. It is an independently run group funding kids' programs through a property tax collected in Miami-Dade County.
Fraud & corruption seemingly go hand-in-hand with any type of taxpayer program.
The Children's Trust is no exception.
Back in April of 2015, The Children's Trust was widely criticized for not properly helping the minority communities for which it was established. (The Children's Trust Needs to Better Serve Kids in Miami's Black Community)
As recently as 2021, The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethic & Public Trust conducted an investigation into The Children's Trust board members & conflict of interest in a contract agreement.
Some board members are also employed by Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
In 2020, Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office filed charges against former Children’s Trust grant recipient, United Martial Arts Academy, Inc. (UMAA), & its Program Director, Kelly Regalado. The charges were filed after a joint investigation with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). They were also charged with the third-degree felony of Communications Fraud. In all, they are accused of stealing almost $300,000 from the Children’s Trust via fraudulent billing practices.
So who helped create The Children's Trust? Founding member & former Florida Senator Rene Garcia is a healthcare lobbyist who also describes himself as "an activist for KidCare", a federal-state-funded health insurance program for children. Oddly, Mr. Garcia has no children yet has unlimited ties to the healthcare industry as a lobbyist. Currently, he is Commissioner for Miami-Dade County District 13 & The President of The Miami Republican Party.
Transgender topics are promoted to children using taxpayers' funds. Not just on their website, but thru Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
Radical Marxist/anti-Israel activists Hawa Adam & Kiran Waqar who work with The Students For Justice in “Palestine” (SJP) & Black Lives Matter are also being promoted thru The Children's Trust with taxpayer money.
While Miami GOP President Rene Garcia speaks out against Black Lives Matter, he has no issues with The Children's Trust promoting this ideology.
In the statement, Miami GOP Chairman Rene Garcia “vehemently” denounced the Black Lives Matter remarks, calling them “uneducated and egregious.”
“Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a network of pro-Palestinian student groups across the US which disseminate anti-Israel propaganda often laced with inflammatory and at times combative rhetoric. They are a leading campus organizer of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel, and specialize in using confrontational tactics such as disrupting student-run pro-Israel events, and constructing mock “apartheid walls” and distributing fake “eviction notices” to dramatize what they consider Israeli abuses of Palestinians.”
- Black Lives Matter, is led by trained Marxists who have aligned themselves with the “Palestine” movement to call for the destruction of America & Israel.
“Ongoing demonstrations across the United States have reenergized the intersectional solidarity between those protesting anti-Black racism in America and BDS organizations’ demands to “Free Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea”– a clarion call to dismantle the State of Israel.”