Promesa Behavioral Health

The Foster Family Agency (FFA) program recruits, trains, and supervises foster parents. The Agency then places children who are wards or dependents of the court system in appropriate homes. In 2024 Promesa provided approximately 18,985 days of foster care to children throughout their service area.

The Substance Use Treatment Disorder Program offers state certified multilingual drug and alcohol programs in individual and group settings for an outpatient setting with sensitivity to multicultural needs. The program provides telehealth effective short-term tools to support abstention, teach triggers for addictive behaviors and offer relapse prevention services after program completion.

The Transitional Housing Program plus Foster Care (THP+FC) provides safe housing, supportive services and weekly, intensive case management. Promesa's purpose is to provide independent living opportunities for non-minor dependents to practice life skills in a safe environment and to ease the transition from dependency to self-sufficiency. The program will allow non-minor dependents the greatest amount of freedom possible in order to prepare them for self-sufficiency, while allowing participants to develop permanent connections with caring and committed adults, develop independent living skills and have opportunities for incremental responsibility. In 2024, Promesa provided 2,303 days of care to non-minor dependents throughout their service area.

Promesa also provided Adoption services The adoption services provide emotional, psychological, education and medical support services to help caring people through what can be a long, emotional process to adoption for the family and to permanency for the child. During 2024 Promesa facilitated the completion of 3 adoptions.