Welcome to The Dream Center

We provide a dynamic quality out of school time Programming for youth ages 5-18. Perfectly balanced with academic and personal enrichment activities.

Why Choose Us?

Our purpose at The Dream Center is to provide a warm, nurturing, supportive and academically challenging environment, where children feel safe, secure, loved and respected; where they are given opportunities to develop to their fullest potential in all areas – social, emotional, physical and cognitive; where parents and staff work together as a team to ensure that we provide an experience that goes beyond the expected, for the children, parents and staff of this program.

After School Care

Registration Now Open! (2023-24)

Optimist Programs and Arts Center | K - Middle School Students
1125 NW 71 Street Miami, FL 33150

Southside Cultural Arts Center | K - 12th Grade Students
701 Andrews Ave Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

Holiday Park  | K - 12th Grade Students
1150 G. Harold Martin Dr. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

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No matter where you're from, your DREAMS are valid.

- Lupita Nyong'o

Summer Camp

Come on a journey to explore the arts and science through the portals of:

  • Hands on instruction 
  • Certified Teachers  
  • Percussion
  • Dance
  • Chorus
  • Sports Science
  • Urban Gardening


    • CHILDREN THRIVE IN A CLEAN AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT

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    Early Learning Coalition


    ELC offers School Readiness, a financial assistance program that helps low-income eligible families obtain affordable, high-quality child care. Priority for school readiness program participation is given to: children whose parents are economically disadvantaged, children who have been determined to be at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation, and children with special needs.

    The Dream Center ELC partners work together to families can access the support and resources needed for their children to be ready to enter school and succeed.

    ELC is available at ALL Dream Center LocationsRegister for ELC Assistance

    Miami Dade Parents

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    Broward Parents

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    Additional Programs

    Jewels Training Academy

    If your want to enhance your child’s developmental experience, then you’ve found the right place.

    What the Jewels Twirling Academy (JTA) does: JTA provides high-interest technical classes in the art/sport of baton twirling. Children will increase their physical fitness while cultivating their self-discipline and self-esteem through the mastery of new skills

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    Camp Kanya

    If you want to enhance your dance experience, then you’ve found the right place.

    We offer our clients a wide range of instructional services in the areas of: Baton Twirling, Dance All Forms (Jazz, Modern, HipHop/Street,Pom), Flag, Riffle, Sabre, Stand Material, Parade Material, Pep Rally Material, Whole Corp Performance, and more

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    Tanya Jackson

    Professionally, Tanya Jackson served as a Special Agent for the Miami-Dade Office of the Inspector General for 13 years. In this capacity she preventrd waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. Her last case yielded a 47 count indictment of a dishonorable Miami-Dade Public Schools tutoring firm. She is also a licensed realtor. Elder Jackson’s also served as a professor of Criminal Justice whose vitae includes Juvenile Delinquency, Intro to Criminal Justice, Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, Dangerous Substances and Narcotics, and Criminology. As a business professor, all business managerial courses are her strengths. She holds an MBA and a bachelors degree in accounting.