Centro de Fortalecimiento Familiar

Child Care - Early Head Start - To provide early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers (0-3) and their families, and pregnant women and their families by operating a full-day, full-year Early Head Start Center Based Program in the Municipality of Gurabo. The Early Head Start center served a total of 249 persons (123 children and 126 adults). The program received $20,443 in donated in-kind services.

Families First (Parenting Fundamentals) - Provides tertiary prevention services with the goal of preventing recurrence of child abuse and avoiding family separation. Empowers parents to prevent child abuse, improve school performance, and strengthen their families. Includes parenting classes, home visits and connection to other services. The program served a total of 40 adults and children.

Child Abuse Prevention - The Luisa Capetillo project provides in-home services through Parent Aide services to families who were victims of domestic violence to assist them in stabilizing the home during or following the period of crisis to maximize the opportunity for children to remain in their homes and to strengthen parenting skills. Parent Aid Services were provided to 39 children and adults. The IRA (Training and Community Resources and Support Institute) provided primary prevention services serving a total of 9,491 persons, through prevention campaigns, psychological services to children and adults with trauma symptoms and other general support services such as food, clothes, service coordination, among others.