Our Branches, Main Projects

  • Salud Montuna™

    Salud Montuna (Mountain Wellbeing) is our Training and Consulting Agency (LLC). It is all about our education programs and our support to other organizations and healers out there. Health education has been our base since our high school days. It has been a constant in our lives and community work. We create classes not only for adults but also for younger audiences. We train Community Health Workers (Maternal Child Health and Natural Preventive Care), Promotores de Salud, All Pregnancy Outcomes and Experiences Companions, and various topics under the sexual and reproductive health spectrum. All our community education grants, projects, and collaborations happen here.

  • Partería Montuna™

    Mountain Midwifery is about all our care services as our Sexual and Reproductive Health People’s Popular Clinic (LLC). It is an honor to the beginnings of our path as a midwife and a tribute to our birthing years. Through this program, we offer Natural Gynecology services, perinatal health, and Partera de Duelo (Grief Midwifery) care services around Perinatal Loss, and other experiences and outcomes of pregnancy.

  • Sabiduría Montuna™

    Sabiduría Montuna (Mountain Wisdom) acknowledges that we are part of a community that has learned how to heal and support each other for generations. This wisdom happens in our Centro Comunitario as our nonprofit work.

    We have been training, fundraising, and organizing Health Mentors classes around isolated rural communities in P.R. and the Caribbean region with our yearly fundraisers and initiatives. One of them is being an honorific member of Centro Comunitario Lorenzo del Valle.

    Our projects include creating spaces to safeguard Santigüadoras healing practices among newer generations, documenting records and interviews of healers across our community, and the use of our plants and herbs.

  • Cabaña Mujer Montuna™

    Our Cabaña Montuna, located in the same community in Puerto Rico that saw us grow, was built with our own hands with the mastery, love, and guidance of my father, Don Manuel, and the community neighbors that would come enjoy Doña Aida’s (my mom) meal after a long day of carpentry. This was our carpentry school.

    This is Partería Montuna's preventive health community wellness center (care and education, non profit work) and popular education studio where community organizations, healing, and agriculture projects, plants, flowers, herbs nursery, and apothecary magic happen. A place where our Doña Niña’s (Abuela) blessings and all our communal ancestry knowledge meet.

    We extend this belief to our community practice because we also believe healing is a collective responsibility, and our collectiveness started in the mountains that hold our Cabaña.

  • Casa Mujer Montuna™

    Mountain Home is the resting space we are building in the Diaspora (coming 2025 as part of our LLC that fuels our nonprofit work in Puerto Rico) where our communities meet and learn, take care of each other, and rest. It will be the equivalent of our Cabaña but in Illinois. We want to offer a space of breath to people going through loss. Stay tuned for updates!

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It Takes a Village

In Montuna, our work is possible because we collaborate with amazing committed community-based members and organizations that are investing in their growth as well as their communities to make this world a more beautiful and just one. You should check them out. We want to especially center-front and uplift the voices of our BIPOC, LGBTIQA+, youth, and immigrant/refugee communities. We want you to know the faces of the amazing groups we have been conspiring in our hearts and the people who lift our spirits each time.

Taller Salud is a community-based feminist organization, founded in 1979 in Puerto Rico, dedicated to improving women's access to health, reducing violence in community settings, and promoting economic development through education and activism. Their philosophy is that when women prosper, their communities become stronger, therefore the health of a community begins with the health of its women.

We’ve been proudly a Cagüana with Taller Salud since 2006. Once I became part of the Diaspora in 2013, I continued supporting as a Sexual and Reproductive Health Specialist supporting training Peer Health Mentors in Loíza. If you are looking to support any efforts or initiatives back home, this is where you start.

Expanding Lives (EL) was founded by my fellow Peace Corps (PC) Volunteer and friend Leslie, on the PC belief that one person can influence positive change in the world. EL truly instills this belief in the young women they serve, and how they practice it themselves

They provide education and leadership experiences to young women in West Africa who come to the United States in an exchange study program. They become leaders and multiply what learned in their communities, and their projects are just amazing.

We have been supporting them by teaching fun classes around the Women’s Health curriculum in their native language since 2017 and counting.

Centro Romero’s Women’s Program has 22 years of experience providing direct counseling services in trauma-informed for Spanish-speaking survivors of the Women’s Program. They offer support and free counseling sessions that educate, empower, and prevent domestic violence

We have been collaborating with Patricia and the program since 2014, the year after I arrived in this country. Since then, we have been providing Women’s Health classes that are transversal to their program curriculum, and expanding the group with important topics like different migration experiences understanding, gender diversity, and racial justice. This was my first Latine family in this city, and still deep and close to my heart and counting.

We were members of the Chicago Women's Health Center (CWHC) for 11 years. It was a grand school and experience in our journey. We collaborate teaching CWHC’s communities as a consultant to this day. Our old Collective and Family is one of the still-standing feminist health collectives in the United States (since 1975). We would refer the world to these amazing folks!

CWHC facilitates the empowerment of women, trans people, and young people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.

Take a look at their beautiful space!

Sokana Collective is removing barriers for birth workers and families in Chicago through education and service. They move skies to get funding to train more Full Spectrum BIPOC Doulas across the city. They are growing and expanding in topics like better gender-affirming practices, and abortion.

We’ve known Nancy and Sonia from the birth work community for ages, but it was in 2022 that we started collaborating offering classes in Spanish training around all outcomes and experiences of pregnancy. Their passion and dedication are contagious, and if you are into finding a Collective to work with, this is a great place to start.

Alivio Medical Center is a tri-cultural community health center offering accessible healthcare for underserved Latino, Asian, and refugee/asylum-seeking communities in South Chicago.

We collaborate as Sexual and Reproductive Health, Maternal Child Health, and Family Planning program management at OB/Gyn Midwives Department, School-Based Health Centers, refugee and asylum seekers shelters, and low-income, uninsured, and underserved communities utilizing a community health worker model at a trilingual, tricultural Federal Qualified Health Center (FQHC) committed to providing access to quality cost-effective health care to underrepresented Latino and Asian communities in South Chicago, regardless of insurance, immigration status or ability to pay. We have initiatives like our Community Baby Showers and Ropero Comunitarios to support our current and recently arrived immigrant families.