SOMOS Puerto Rico Conference

In partnership with our Catholic Charities affiliate, New York Foundling, Catholic Charities will bring volunteers to the Residencial Juana Matos in Cataño.  We will provide a thanksgiving meal for about 50 families (40 children, 150 people total).  The meal will be accompanied by a performance by the children. We will also bring backpacks and reading books for each of the children and distribute turkeys to the 50 families.  Volunteers will help serve the meal, distribute backpacks to the children and the turkeys to the families. 

Join our arriving SOMOS Conference participants at a welcoming network reception where you will be able to greet both new and existing friends at the El San Juan Hotel.   

This day will be dedicated to providing service and relief efforts to local organizations and institutions in Puerto Rico. Activities will be specifically defined as the times draw closer but these will be in the areas of environmental work, visit to schools (supporting education), volunteerism, community service and other rebuilding opportunities. Supporting partners/hosts include: Para La Naturaleza, American Reading Company, Hispanic Federation, IsraAID, Association of Puerto Rico Community Health Centers, Instituto Nueva Escuela, Casa Dominicana and others.

Join NYS Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, Chairman Marcos A. Crespo and the members of the NYS Assembly/Senate Puerto Rican /Hispanic Task Force for the SOMOS Conference kick-off “Bienvenida-Welcome” event at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in Santurce. Featuring guided tours of current art exhibits and local artisans.              

Join us for a day of workshops sessions, networking and a business expo.

*Click on Image for Printable Version*

***PICK UP TIMES (from El San Juan Hotel): 5:30pm, 6pm, 6:15pm

Palacio Dorado is an affordable senior housing development, which is provided for persons 62 years of age and older. This development is located in the Urban Center of the Toa Alta Municipality in Puerto Rico. Our development includes six buildings with a total of 103 rental apartments of which 26 are ADA compliant. One-bedroom residential units are arranged around a main courtyard that provides an area for casual encounters between the residents, a place to gather and build a real sense of community. Palacio Dorado includes an onsite fitness center, a computer lab, a library, a community center and onsite property management offices. 

The development also includes an underground parking lot with 52 spaces and an emergency generator. Palacio Dorado allows many opportunities for community interaction, active living and a better quality of life for its senior residents. The main goals of our design are to provide a high quality “green” affordable housing project, promoting physical activity within the project including community and supportive services where the residents can feel safe, flourish, improve their well-being and feel proud of their living environment. Palacio Dorado is an innovative residential model where the residents will be offered an active, attractive, stable, safe, cloistered, and a protected environment. We welcome you to come join us in celebration of what we can do as a community to provide affordable housing to the people of Puerto Rico!

Join us for dinner on Saturday at the ESJ Ballroom as we recount our experiences, acknowledge the work that needs to be done and recognize leaders in the forefront of renaissance of efforts to revive la isla del encanto "the island of enchantment".