{"id":154823,"date":"2026-02-13T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:15:11","slug":"sanderlin-center-plans-40000-square-foot-family-and-social-services-campus-in-south-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154823\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanderlin Center plans 40,000-square-foot family and social services campus in south St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Founded in 1990 through a partnership between the St. Petersburg Catholic Diocese and local Black community leaders, the center was modeled after a traditional settlement house, providing childcare, job training, education, and social services under one roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Back then, the Diocese leased the facility for one dollar per year, despite the significant renovations required to make the long-vacant building functional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Originally known as the Black Family Service Center, the organization was later renamed to honor Judge James B. Sanderlin, one of only five Black attorneys practicing in St. Pete in the 1960s, who devoted his career to advancing social and legal equality in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Today, the center provides pre-kindergarten (VPK), after-school care and tutoring for children ages 4 to 13, reading intervention programs, adult education, workforce development courses, financial literacy programming, and food assistance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">However, the existing structure, formerly a nursing home and later a drug rehabilitation facility, was never designed for those services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founded in 1990 through a partnership between the St. Petersburg Catholic Diocese and local Black community leaders, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-154823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}