Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende

Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende (CASA) is a community center in central Mexico with a clinic, midwifery training school, day care, youth outreach programs, and advocacy activities for reproductive and sexual health and rights issues. Created in 1981, its work on professionalizing midwifery makes it a pioneer in the field. The award builds on CASA’s previous work, and centers on reaching out to states working to create training programs and integrate midwives into their services, advancing advocacy to establish up to eight centers of excellence for pre-service training, and strengthening leadership to move the midwifery model of care forward in the coming years.

A grant of $500,000 over three years to the Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende will support the promotion of new public training models for professional midwifery in Mexico. CASA will work with partners to create an additional two new schools and a distance learning platform. The grant will contribute to strengthening the quality of maternal health care of Mexico’s primary health care system.

To strengthen professional midwifery in Mexico (over three years).

To disseminate a peer education model for young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (over two years).

To support a peer education program to foster responsible sexuality among young people in the state of Guanajuato (over three years).