PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN WITHOUT FAMILIES

Full care for children from newly born to eight (8) years in protection and/or adoption, as well as for babies and children of the Home for Pregnant Women. 

Ø      The children enjoy spacious and comfortable facilities specially adapted for their care and development.

Ø      Care in health, nutrition, pediatrics, psychology, early stimulation, dental health, speech therapy and ophthalmology and laboratory exams. Each child has a medical history with follow-up.

Ø      As part of the care of the children, they are offered an environment with loving care and well-being to make them feel happy and loved. There are also celebrations, cultural, sport and recreational activities used to ensure their psychological and motor-psychomotor, social and emotional development.

Ø      Children over three go to nursery school, kindergarten or primary school during their stay in La Casa while their legal situation is defined.

 ADOPTION

ADOPTION tries to unite the love of a child with the love of parents by enabling them to enjoy a family and be able to grow as an emotionally stable person. It also offers parents the satisfaction of forming a family as they desire.

The Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity,  APOSTOLICAM ACTUOSITATEM,  from the  Vatican Council establishes the following about adoption:

“…adoption benefits the mother, children, adoptive parents and society. The mother can, by delegation of the responsibility on others, fulfill obligations she cannot assume herself: to offer the child the  home he(she) needs to grow as a person. For the child, adoption is the possibility to be welcomed and loved (…). For adoptive parents it represents the possibility to spiritually achieve a paternity that nature has frustrated and to extend their conjugal love in a generous way. Society benefits because it ensures the care of orphans or abandoned children. Institutions that promote adoption should not promote the irresponsibility of parents. On the contrary, they should promote, the sense of responsibility of those who adopt and of the ones who give their children up for adoption (…)”

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HOME FOR PREGNANT WOMEN

This program welcomes women who are pregnant with a non desired pregnancy living in an environment with social, economic and/or emotional limitations. La Casa de la Madre y el Niño is the best alternative for a person who voluntarily, for economic, social or family reasons, wants to give her baby for adoption. The women generally come to La Casa sent by health centers, government welfare agencies or personal initiative. A social worker interviews them and they can be accepted at any time during their pregnancy. 

La Casa de la Madre y el Niño welcomes pregnant women with love, dedication, understandig and respect. Here they find the warmth of a home and of a family that offers them the reassurance and peace the baby to be born needs.  The following services free of charge are offered:

Ø      Comfortable buildings, room and board, food that is supervised by nutritionists, adequate general services and specialized attention.

Ø      Spiritual orientation based on moral and harmonious coexistence values.

Ø      Health care: Medical pre and post natal care, laboratory exams, sonograms, dental care, psychology, psychiatry, child birth preparation course and a nutritionally supervised program.

Ø      Training in various areas such as: General knowledge of computer skills, self-improvement, self esteem and values; baking, pastry making, cooking and art craft. With these skills, they should be able to fulfill some of their objectives in life or become financially independent.

Ø      La Casa offers lodging to pregnant women and their children under six.

Pregnant women can choose one of the following programs for their stay according to their situation or circumstance:

H    Complete Room and Board: They can live in the residence with up to two children under six; these two children will leave with the mother after she gives birth to the child.

H    Room in the residence and an external activity during the day.

H    Medical care and other activities in La Casa and live in their own home.

ALL SERVICES ARE FREE