La Pica Conversion Project
UCTF in Puerto Rico
Our project is designed to convert a former youth incarceration facility into a center for education and skills development.
Our vision is a bold demonstration of positive, community-wide impact of investment in workforce development and education.
What is La Pica?
An opportunity to:
Dramatically and positively impact the lives of this community through innovative education, occupational skills training, and community building.
Provide our most at-risk youth with meaningful education and life-long work skills, alongside adults engaged in pathways toward occupation.
Engage seniors to make a positive contribution in a supportive environment
Create a pathway to academic success through involvement in athletics.
Meet Our Partners
The La Pica Conversion Project is the result of multiple partners around the country coming together to empower others to uplift voices, remove barriers, and increase access for all.
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NFL Flag is the largest youth flag football league in the U.S. Serving youth athletes ages 4 to 17 years old across the country. NFL FLAG leagues are no contact, giving boys and girls of all abilities a chance to develop their fundamental football skills in a positive, inclusive environment.
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The Children's Village invests in the wellbeing of children, teens, and families through advocacy, strengthening and reunifying families, building community partnerships, creating innovative programs, and connecting people to equitable resources that focus on basic needs and human rights.
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The Consortium for Worker Education is the workforce development arm of the NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Together with our union partners we provide an arc of skills development and social mobility programming for over 50,000 New Yorkers each year. Supported by funding and direct program relationships with the City, State and Federal government, the CWE has been able to create national models of workforce development and will be replicating this work in Puerto Rico.
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FREE Inc. allows an individual with any type of disability, from birth or from a life changing event, to have the ability to be evaluated, trained and assessed to become part of the competitive work environment.
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Our Work Thus Far
Since 2018, UCTF’s mission and goal within Puerto Rico has been to establish the political framework needed in order to acquire access to development opportunities that could be most impactful in helping to supply affordable housing, education and job force training initiatives in support of neighborhood revitalization.
To date, UCTF has secured commitments from 2 Municipalities to develop 400 sites with an additional 4 Municipalities in negotiations for similar MOU/LOI commitments.