About Us

Vimenti was created to provide Puerto Rican children, families and communities with strong academic and emotional support to help transform their lives, thereby restoring vibrancy to our Island and creating a future workforce to be a partner in the economic development of the island.

What is Vimenti?

Vimenti is Puerto Rico’s first comprehensive family services center, committed to empowering families to achieve economic mobility through an integrated, two-generation approach. By supporting both children and adults simultaneously, Vimenti creates opportunities for families to break the cycle of poverty. Created in 2018, the Vimenti Model provides access to high-quality education, socio-emotional support, and pathways to economic mobility. The model includes Puerto Rico’s first charter school, social and health services, after-school programming, and a workforce and career development program. As an integrated solutions lab focused on eradicating child poverty, Vimenti also works to scale and adapt its model in partnership with other communities seeking lasting, systemic change. Vimenti is a benchmark of success in the implementation of evidence-based strategies that foster economic mobility and drive sustainable transformation in families and communities living in poverty.

What is Vimenti?

Vimenti is Puerto Rico’s first comprehensive family services center, committed to empowering families to achieve economic mobility through an integrated, two-generation approach. By supporting both children and adults simultaneously, Vimenti creates opportunities for families to break the cycle of poverty. Created in 2018, the Vimenti Model provides access to high-quality education, socio-emotional support, and pathways to economic mobility. The model includes Puerto Rico’s first charter school, social and health services, after-school programming, and a workforce and career development program. As an integrated solutions lab focused on eradicating child poverty, Vimenti also works to scale and adapt its model in partnership with other communities seeking lasting, systemic change. Vimenti is a benchmark of success in the implementation of evidence-based strategies that foster economic mobility and drive sustainable transformation in families and communities living in poverty.

Vimenti Summary of Services

Evaluation of families with action plans
100% Families with action plans
Follow-up to families at least once a month
Health services screening to students: Psychometric, vision and hearing, student eyeglasses, oral health, workshops.
Employability and Careers Program
Breakfast for the whole family of Vimenti School

Workforce Development

Vimenti Core Areas

Born through collaboration between Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico and the Youth Development Institute; Vimenti encompasses three core areas 1) Education, 2) Social and 3) Economic Opportunities. Recognizing that family is key to a child’s academic success, the Vimenti models enrolls the whole family, providing case management, emotional intelligence support, and health and wellness complementary services.

EDUCATION

At Vimenti, education is the bedrock of our mission. We are committed to consistently improve and strengthening our abilities to help children advance to mastery in all aspects of the learning process. Education is the cornerstone for breaking the cycle of poverty.

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SOCIAL

The Social Area and family strengthening promotes a holistic approach to intervention with families. Designed following the Two Generation approach, the social pillar seeks to provide necessary tools so families can overcome the pitfalls of living below the poverty level.

This area focuses on delivery of services under the delivery of Case Management, Emotional Intelligence and Health and Well-being.

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ECONOMIC

The Economic Area aims to increase the opportunities for children, youth and their family to acquire or develop a job. With this we help igniting a micro ecosystem to foster economic mobility in low-income communities.

It will tackle three economic development opportunities: (1) business ideas and entrepreneurial mindset creation, (2) legitimization of informal economic activities, and (3) micro and small businesses growth. These three areas respond to the major challenges that low-income communities face as they strive for economic stability and improvement.

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