Prevention
Weaving Futures
Oportunidad / Opportunity Program
Aimed at addressing learning difficulties of girls, boys, and adolescents referred by educational institutions. Through cognitive assessment, socio-emotional development, reading comprehension, and mathematical reasoning they are evaluated to identify possible areas for improvement. Based on the results, students receive targeted support in occupational therapy, speech therapy, and psychology, aiming to strengthen their learning processes. Additionally, parents receive guidance and tools to effectively meet the needs of their children.
Impact 2024
Mano a Mano por la Vida /
Hand to Hand for Life Program
A Gabrica program in partnership with the Los Pisingos Foundation and the school reinforcement plan with Autogermana. It provides psychosocial intervention: comprehensive care in pedagogy, psychology, social work, and arts to children and adolescents through activities and workshops on fundamental rights, life plans, personal and emotional development, and networking and family building. It promotes their development as agents of change in society and encourages the creation of healthier environments in the neighborhoods bordering La Calera in the "El Codito" area.
Impact 2024
Psychological Support
We provide support through a diversity of psychological approaches, enabling us to understand and respond to a wide range of situations across the life course—childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. In the latter, we address individual concerns, couple dynamics, and parent–child relationship. We create safe, supportive spaces that foster trust, facilitating both preventive processes and therapeutic intervention, always from a respectful, empathetic perspective centered on each person’s well‑being.
Impact 2024
Impact generated by programs:
Opportunity Program “Oportunidad”
Psychology
Scope: 5 dimensions and 20 behaviors assessed
Average Rating: 3.4 at program completion vs. 1.9 at admission
This is the specialty that shows the greatest progress: children follow instructions more readily and are more cooperative, empathetic and sociable. Their attention, memory and planning skills have increased, as has their ability to identify, express and regulate emotions.
Ocupational Therapy
Scope: 6 dimensions and 22 behaviors assessed
Average rating: 2.9 at program completion vs. 2.1 at admission
Significant advances are evident in postural stability and the manipulation of pencils, scissors, cutlery and similar objects. Improvements are also seen in perception, selective attention, memory and problem solving. Children are more independent, collaborative and engaged.
Speech Language Therapy
Scope: 5 dimensions and 22 behaviors assessed
Average rating: 3.1 at program completion vs. 2.6 at admission
Participants finished with better discrimination of sound sources, as well as greater frecuency, speed, accent and intonation. They demonstrate improved organization of ideas, listening capacity and comprehension. More motivation to start and complete activities within the expected timeframe is also higher.
Source: Assessment instrument upon admission to each specialty and upon completion of the therapeutic process. 88 cases were evaluated in the second half of 2024.
Hand to Hand for Life Program “Mano a Mano por la Vida”
Psychosocial Care
The children beneficiaries were provided with activities and workshops on the pillars of fundamental rights, life plans, personal and emotional development, and network and family building.
They responded about their level of satisfaction, learning, and the application of the knowledge they had learned
