ST. PETERSBURG - The St. Petersburg Dream Center, a Central Avenue ministry and outreach center, has won a $90,000 grant from WorkNet Pinellas to expand its operation.
The money will let the center establish a program to improve employment opportunities for people with limited English skills, Pinellas County Jail ex-offenders and low-income working people.
Plans call for a satellite office in the High Point area to work with the Hispanic population there and a second case manager to work with clients, said Sam Infanzon, Dream Center director.
Catholic Charities will manage the grant, Infanzon said.
The Dream Center has been in St. Petersburg for nearly two years.
It conducts a feeding program and nightly coffee runs to reach the homeless in addition to programs to provide food and clothing to people who are down on their luck.
It also sponsors Metro Kids, a youth ministry in which youngsters take an antidrug, antigang message into neighborhoods.
