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CASA's Programs
Our Hospital, Maternity School, Day-Care Center, Library, and Various Outreach Programs
The Maternity Hospital

CASA's Maternity Hospital, opened in 1994, serves women and families with free HIV testing, Pap smears, birth control, professional midwives, pre- post-natal care, and a slew of other services: for more information, click here.

Midwifery School

After years of struggling with the local and national government, CASA opened Mexico's first, and sadly still its only, accredited School of Professional Midwifery. To learn more about the school, click here.

Daycare

CASA's Child Development Center is an open, affordable day-care for 150 local children, located in the center of Santa Julia, one of the working class neighborhoods of San Miguel. To read more about the program, click here.

CASA's Library

Since our move to Santa Julia, our library has consistently provided the community children's and adults' books, videos, audio, as well as a computer lab stocked with the latest computers and software; click here to read more.

Basicos Peer Counselors

CASA's primary adolescent Peer Counselor program reaches out to the greater community with educational, environmental and free family planning services - traveling all over the state of Guanajuato - and reaching tens of thousands each year. To learn more, click here.

Sexual Education Team

PESANE, CASA's Sexual Education team, educates students and teachers in Guanajuato State about equal rights, sexuality, puberty, safe sex, and family planning. To learn more about their work, click here.

Espacios: CASA's Theater Group

Espacios, CASA's Theater Group, travels throughout the State of Guanajuato, visiting community centers, schools, and public spaces and addressing tough subjects through entertaining and interactive theater works. To read more about the group, click here.

CASA's Radio Program

From Head to Toe, CASA's educative radio team, puts together a number of programs that are broadcasted in Mexico and the US - offering their listeners educative radio soap operas, as well as a talk-show format featuring, amongst other things, interviews with experts in the fields of health care, sexual education, and the environment. To learn more about their programs, click here.

CASA's National Advocacy Program

One of the newest programs at CASA, our Advocacy program aims to build a national network of politically active and educated youth. To read more: click here.

Prevention of Violence Program

CASA's Violence Prevention Program runs classes, workshops, and gives talks in an attempt to raise awareness about domestic violence, and also about equal rights. In the process, it develops support systems to combat violence, and helps to connect victims with CASA's pyscological services. To learn more about the program, click here.


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