Services programs
Services Programs
Corporación La Fondita de Jesús
Puerta al Cambio (Door to Change)
- Basic and essential services, whose purpose is to facilitate the reintegration of homeless people into the community and provide them with a professional support system.
- Includes the following services: showers-clothes-shoes-washers-dryers - lockers-food-community outreach-case management-social work-recreational activities.
Integración a la Comunidad (Community Integration)
- Support for homeless people who have been or are being placed in permanent housing projects.
- The main purpose is to strengthen the life skills of each individual which, in turn, will allow them to obtain and maintain housing and income opportunities.
- Job search support and educational alternatives.
Conexión Saludable (Healthy Connection)
- The objective is to guarantee primary and mental health services to the homeless.
- The following services are offered:
o Nursing
o Psychology
o Addiction and mental health counseling
o Nutritionist health education
o Preventive and primary medical care
- Support is offered in the process of entering and using the government or private health system.
- Through Conexión Móvil, health services are brought to people from vulnerable communities in San Juan who are at high risk of losing their homes and who live in extreme poverty.
Campamento de Desarrollo Social y Autosuficiencia (Camp for Social Development and self-Sufficiency)
- The goal is to develop participants' life skills to reach their highest possible level of self-sufficiency and enhance their potentials.
- Workshops are offered on the following topics, among others:
- conflict management
- strengthening the inner child
- budget
- self-esteem
- job interview prep
- personal hygiene
Konect@os (Connected)
Virtual library and techno-educational collaborative with the following objectives:
- Mitigate the Digital Divide: the project is aimed at reducing the digital divide of underserved communities.
- Educate and Train: Participants will learn to use technological tools such as tablets, computers and the internet to facilitate their access to public or private services and essential government information.
- Search for Employment, Studies or Housing: This space will provide search tools for education, research, employment or housing through the Internet. In addition, children, youngsters and adults will be able to use the space to carry out their school or university homework.
- A Safe and Inclusive Place: Konect@os is a space where everyone has the opportunity to learn about digitalization and to collaborate working in shared spaces (co-working space).
Community Development Program
Program through which community education, community social work and case management, among other services, are provided to vulnerable communities in San Juan that were impacted by hurricanes Irma and María and have been doubly affected by the 2020 earthquakes and the Pandemic of the COVID19.
- Provides support and educates boards and community leaders on issues relevant to sustainability and resilience, among others:
- empowerment values
- sustainability
- community resilience
- individual, community and environmental health
- security plans
- emergency management
- strategies for the organization and empowerment of community processes
- The program is mainly focused on the population of elderly people who live in these communities with different vulnerability factors, without sufficient support networks and poor access to public services.
Personal Growth Project
Support for a better balance through readings, reflections, music, group dynamics and spiritual counseling.
Equity and Social Justice
Its' objective is to educate and impact the public policy of the country, as well as transform the private attitude that affects the homeless and other vulnerable populations.
Oradores de la Calle (Peer Educators)
- It is a group of people whose purpose is to humanize the perception of homeless people by eliminating myths and breaking stereotypes and misconceptions.
- Provides a forum for homeless people to share personal stories and experiences.
La Fondita's Families
- The program is mainly focused on providing support and accompaniment to families (adults, young people and children) who live in need, without sufficient support networks and/or poor access to public services. Always looking out for the best well-being of our Puerto Rican families. The goal of the program is to expand assistance to families experiencing homelessness or at high risk of homelessness and to meet their basic needs. Among its objectives are:
- Increased housing stability
- Improved self-reliance
- Reduced entry to emergency shelters
- Expanding well-being
- Community integration
- Racial Equity
- The program provides case management and social work services to families in Puerto Rico, with a network of internal and external resources that support the delivery of services.
