COMMUNITY OUTREACH & CONSULTING

Through the Community Outreach and Consulting Initiative, La Promesa Honduras provides training, mentoring and consulting to parents, caregivers, and professionals working with children who have experienced life-altering trauma, in addition to meeting the unique needs of the Deaf and disability communities.

Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Communities

In a country where more than half the population lives in desperate poverty, La Promesa Honduras is a voice for those in need as well as a conduit between those in need and the church. Our day-to-day work represents our commitment to family-based care and to the belief that children belong in safe homes with loving families. 

La Promesa Honduras meets people in some of the most vulnerable moments in their lives and provides competent, compassionate, and accessible professional services in the areas of trauma-informed counseling and mental health treatment, family preservation and foster care, and training and professional development.  We consider it an honor and a privilege to step into the space between tragedy and hope and extend tangible affirmation of God’s immeasurable love to people when they need it the most.

Using highly trained and experienced professionals, La Promesa Honduras builds the capacity of caregivers to provide holistic and effective recovery care to children from hard places. Services are available through the La Promesa Honduras office in Tegucigalpa or on-site throughout Honduras and include.

• On-site evaluations and needs assessments
• Trauma-informed Consulting and Mentoring
• Training
  • Developing a Trauma-Informed Practice Framework
  • Pre-Service Foster Family Training
  • Ongoing Foster Family Training
  • Trauma-informed care
  • Trust-Based Relational Intervention
  • Trauma-Competent Caregiver

Deaf and Disability Community

When it comes to engaging the Deaf and disability communities, the opportunity for education is very limited.  In 2010, only 15% of Deaf children in Honduras received special education, as noted in a 2010 paper by H. Williams, entitled A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Honduran Deaf Community.

The most recent data shows that less than 5% of the Deaf and disability communities in Honduras have received a high school diploma, and it’s only just in the last decade that the first Deaf student graduated with a bachelor degree.

La Promesa brings more than 20 years of professional experience and knowledge related to disability and Deaf community care, to support their advancement in the community.  Services are available through the office in Tegucigalpa or on-site throughout Honduras and include:

• On-site evaluation and needs assessments
• Sign language communication proficiency evaluation and debrief
• Consulting and mentoring
• Training
  • Providing Inclusive Access for People with Disabilities
  • Psychosocial Aspects of Disability and Deafness
  • Language and Culture in the Deaf Community
  • The Role of Sign Language Interpreters
  • Deaf Leadership Development