RED POR LOS DERECHOS DE LA NIEZ Y LA JUVENTUD DE PUERTO RICO

Programs

1. Head start and early - head start programs are federal program that provides early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and families. The program's goal is to prepare children for school and to help them succeed in life. Head start programs provide a wide range of services to meet the needs of each individual child and family - including educational activities, health screenings and services, nutritious meals, social and emotional support, and help finding childcare or employment.

   $8,298,499 spent$7,252,966 earned by the program
   87% of program spending

2. Safe families program services, this componet includes residential services provided in shelters for the protection of children in context of violence; the project developing a healthy coexistance network that offers psychoeducational interventions to parents in communities with high poverty rates and to families participating in the family department fosterc care program and the emotional support program for toxic stress reduction through which trauma specialized psycological services are offered. The organization experience in providing direct services to victims of abuse allowed it to identify the vulnerability suffered by young people in their transition from the foster care system to independent living. These young adults lack mastery of independent living, skills, experience emotional sequels as result of multiple traumas and adverse childhood experience and live in risky enviroments or experience homelessness. Faced with this need redenij-pr developed the casa ramon project which will offer transitional housing services to 40 young people with priority given to the lgbt youth, young people in contact with the justice system or young graduates of the family department. The…

   $1,225,321 spent$1,939,155 earned by the program
   13% of program spending

3. Advocacy group: through the advocacy and mobilization component we work to ensure more and better public policies focused on supporting children and their families specially those in context of violence. We have initiatives for legislation promotion, monitorin, construction and participation of the public policy agenda on the rigths of children and young people: the table of key actors for change and permanent table on care for homeless youth, both multisectoral efforts for the defense of human rigths aimed at the development and implementation of novel effective initiatives to meet the needs of the population of children, young people and their families.

4. Training and technical assitance program- through the education, training and assistance component we provide training and support to strengthen competencies in service providers and other professionals of public and private entities. This component includes the training and technical assistance project and the annual forum on prevention care of child abuse in puerto rico an initaive that has been carried out annually sicne 2017 and through which continuing education is offered to the network of service providers for children and youth. Emergency solutions program - pass trough pr department of family - the purpose of the emergency solutions grants (esg) program authorizes hud to make grants to states, units of general purpose local government, and territories for the rehabilitation or conversion of buildings for use as emergency shelter for the homeless, for the payment of certain expenses related to operating emergency shelters, for essential services related to emergency shelters and street outreach for the homeless, and for homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing assistance. Coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds- pass trough puerto rico fiscal agency and…

   $12,153 spent
   0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,535,973.