The First 1,000 Days
Urban Strategies knows the first 1,000 days of a child’s life are crucial for healthy development. If your organization is interested in investing in programs designed for children ages 0-3 and pregnant mothers, consider partnering with one of our programs.
We activate parents to be their children’s first teachers. Offering free childcare for children ages 0-3, our caring staff works with families to help them reach their goals.
Based in Puerto Rico, Comienzo Saludable offers a caring network of community partners and resources for pregnant mothers and their families. We believe maternal health is the first step to a healthy community.
Protecting Children, Mentoring Teens
Urban Strategies develops future leaders. We work with children, teens and young adults to cultivate the next generation of community change agents.
Refugio
Refugio provides shelter and services to unaccompanied children who have arrived in the U.S. by crossing the southern border. This program serves children 0-17 years old through 24-hour shelter services. While in our care, children receive educational, clinical, recreational, religious, and case management services until reunified with a U.S. sponsor.
Youth Development
Urban Strategies offers youth development programming that activates teens to identify and build healthy relationships. Our curricula were made with youth in mind and are successful because of our church and community partners’ commitment to long-term youth involvement.
Future at Home
Future at Home activates emerging leaders in communities of promise within Central America’s Northern Triangle. In partnership with churches, the program recruits and mentors high-potential youth in a supportive community environment, provides a character-building and skills development program, and supplies college tuition to pave the way toward professional-level job placement and local impact.
Throughout the program and upon graduation, participants take part in transformative, community-based activities that equip them with skills to break the cycles of instability and irregular migration, as they contribute to a sustainable Future at Home.
A Healthy Foundation
Committed to working with the whole family, Urban Strategies has developed multiple community development programs that promote the health, well-being, and leadership development of adults and community leaders.
En Comunidad is designed to equip Hispanic church leadership teams to lead the way to thriving, for both congregations and communities through cohort experiences full of learning, fellowship, and challenges for Hispanic church leadership teams. Pastors and leadership teams join teams from other churches, as they share learnings and receive coaching along the way to healthier team dynamics.
Churches can view the church profile, cohort schedules, send and interest form, or register through the link below.
Our partnerships with pastors across the country make much of our work possible. Caminando Juntos improves the holistic wellbeing of and interconnectivity among a diverse group of Latino pastors, helping them lead healthfully, from a place of rest in God and within a community of supportive peers.
The Púlpito Fellows Program, supported by the Lilly Endowment, is a three-year cohort program specifically created for Latino/a pastors and ministry leaders. It promotes personal and social change by focusing on enhancing preaching skills that lean on technology to create compelling, relevant, and justice-centered messages for digital audiences.
The program consists of 10 topics over the course of 10 weeks, with three to four in-person sessions and seven sessions via Zoom. Groups are bilingual, with content delivered in English. Fellows will produce three digital products to complete the course.
Iglesia Segura is an abuse- and violence-prevention curriculum contextualized for the Church in El Salvador. The program equips local churches to cultivate a healthy culture by first raising awareness of power dynamics and then recognizing, acknowledging, and addressing abuse in their environments.
With the goal of producing more peaceful churches, homes, and communities, the Iglesia Segura curriculum equips 1) church leaders to be advocates for the protection of vulnerable people, 2) men to be confident allies, 3) women to be courageous accompaniers, and 4) youth to foster healthy relationships as they become cycle-breakers of all forms of relational violence.
Connecting Skilled Labor
As we move communities forward, we interact with qualified potential candidates who are eager to utilize their skills and abilities to improve the life of others. Our organization connects companies and programs with skilled labor to increase the well-being of communities and families.
Urban Strategies connects local qualified candidates in different cities of the United States with open employment and work-based learning opportunities.
You will be able to find great opportunities for employment in different cities all across the United States including Puerto Rico.
Check our “Careers” page and find a match for your calling. The different programs offer employment opportunities where you can work closely with community development. Some of these opportunities allow you to work directly with families to help them thrive.
H2 for Success connects opportunities with dreams by helping United States-based companies identify motivated and skilled workers from the Northern Triangle who are seeking work opportunities in the U.S. through the H2 visa program.
Through authentic relationships that begin with our community-based field partners, our team provides contextualized messaging and on-site recruitment events to help Salvadorans gain access to opportunities that provide economic impact for their families and communities.
The program partners with more than 50 community-based organizations (CBOs), 130 municipalities, the El Salvador Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and over 3,000 Salvadoran churches which form a network to effectively reach and process candidates seeking opportunities.
Urban Strategies, alongside these partners, has developed a recruitment database with over 400,000 applicants who are seeking to fulfill their dreams through a temporary, legal work opportunity in the U.S. through the H2 visa program.