Let's break the cycle!
Let's break the cycle!
The Alternative Living Program (AL) is OCA's flagship program, a holistic, peer-led mentoring and system navigation initiative for young adults ages 18-25 navigating life after foster care or juvenile justice in Puerto Rico.
The Alternative Living Program serves young adults ages 18-25 who have experience in Puerto Rico's foster care and/or juvenile justice system. OCA begins building relationships with youth before they turn 18 to prepare them for the program and ensure continuity of support at the critical moment of transition. Participants past age 25 can access some program services until age 26. Youth may have any level of prior system involvement OCA meets each person where they are.
The Alternative Living Program serves young adults ages 18-25 who have experience in Puerto Rico's foster care and/or juvenile justice system. OCA begins building relationships with youth before they turn 18 to prepare them for the program and ensure continuity of support at the critical moment of transition. Participants past age 25 can access some program services until age 26. Youth may have any level of prior system involvement OCA meets each person where they are.
We can't CONTROL life outcomes, but we can INFLUENCE. We are here to share tools, strategies and support system-involved youth in their healing and development journeys.
All activities and services are co-created and/or approved by the youth we serve.
The Alternative Living Program is informed by nationally recognized evidence-based models including Unconditional Care, Better Futures, and LifeSet, combined with OCA's team's own lived experience in Puerto Rico's foster care system. This grounding in both research and first-hand knowledge is what makes OCA's approach effective where other programs have fallen short.
Peer-led mentoring for foster youth ages 18-25 in Puerto Rico.
Self-referrals accepted.
Contact: info@ocapr.org or 939-606-5673.
"They meet our needs with speed and urgency. OCA finds options to help you quickly in a way that other systems don't."
"The support and comprehension they provide us make it feel like they are family."
"This helps us become adults... even help us doing things like tax returns, which I had never done!"
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