{"id":85986,"date":"2025-12-16T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85986\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:25:08","slug":"students-of-miami-heats-school-to-work-program-visit-lotus-house-womens-shelter-to-provide-holiday-meals-gifts-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85986\/","title":{"rendered":"Students of Miami Heat\u2019s school-to-work program visit Lotus House Women\u2019s Shelter to provide holiday meals, gifts &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; The Miami Heat\u2019s season of giving continued during their most recent stop at a local organization.<\/p>\n<p>Students and mentors from the team\u2019s School-to-Work program visited the Lotus House Women\u2019s Shelter and the newly built Children\u2019s Village to prepare and serve meals and provide support for residents ahead of the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The group spent the day assembling holiday gifts, preparing meals, and supporting the teaching team at Urgent Academy, one of the two schools housed within the newly constructed Children\u2019s Village.<\/p>\n<p>Heat staff say this community involvement will help the students in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to expose these kids to the right guidance with our staff, as well as the activities that can help them go back home and have a sense of perspective, appreciation, and empowerment to tackle their own obstacles both in the classroom as well as out,\u201d said Erick Torres, Manager of Social Responsibility at Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>Under the program, high school students learn career-guiding skills through workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; The Miami Heat\u2019s season of giving continued during their most recent stop at a local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-85986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85986","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=85986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}