Safe Schools South Florida was founded in Miami-Dade in 1991 to create safer schools for students and staff. It is the only South Florida organization comprised of professional educators whose sole mission is to help create safer schools for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) students or those perceived as such and for children of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parents.

During the early ‘90s, Safe Schools South Florida was the lead organization in creating school board policy and union contract changes in the Miami-Dade school district to include protection from discrimination and harassment with regard to sexual orientation. Our work helped promote similar advances in the other South Florida Counties.  Safe Schools South Florida was also instrumental in the creation of domestic partnership benefits in the four major South Florida school districts.

Safe Schools South Florida is the designated education organization of the Children's Trust-funded Alliance for GLBTQ Youth to provide training in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Our work and programs have been recognized nationally by the American Federation of Teachers and state-wide by the Florida Governor's Commission on Best Practices for Youth Suicide Prevention.