Impact Across Our Programs
Healing, Safety, and Collective Care
Our Approach
At Casa Fortaleza, our work exists across a continuum — from immediate crisis response to long-term healing and community education rooted in culture, connection, and collective care.
Each year, we provide direct services for hundreds of survivors of sexual violence and their families, while simultaneously working to address the root conditions that allow violence to occur through education, outreach, and culturally grounded liberatory practices.
As a trauma-informed agency, we provide strength-based, culturally and linguistically specific services that honor the dignity, healing, and self-determination of survivors and their families. Our work is grounded in community, justice, and the belief that healing is possible when we walk alongside survivors — not just in crisis, but in restoration and empowerment.
Healing is not separate from education.
Safety is not created in isolation.
Safer communities are built when people have access to resources, stability, belonging, and support systems that strengthen wellbeing at every level.
Growth Over Time: Deepening Our Reach & Strengthening Community-Based Support
Over the past three fiscal years, Casa Fortaleza has expanded its reach and strengthened service delivery across crisis response, advocacy, therapy, education, outreach, and community-based programming — while intentionally shifting toward more culturally grounded and healing-centered approaches.
From FY2023 to FY2025, the number of secondary survivors served increased from 80 to 410, with 14% of survivors served this year being children — reflecting the broader impact of violence across families and the need for services that support not only survivors, but their support systems.
Access to ongoing healing support also expanded significantly, with therapy clients increasing from 75 in FY2023 to over 325 in FY2025, resulting in more than 530 therapy sessions provided this year alone.
During this same period, Casa Fortaleza made a strategic shift to invest in more in-depth educational spaces rooted in cultural and liberatory practices — creating opportunities for youth, families, and community members to engage in conversations around healthy relationships, identity, consent, and collective wellbeing.
As a result, educational programming expanded from 4 events in FY2023, to 20 in FY2024, to 83 in FY2025, reaching more than 3,760 community members this year alone.
In FY2025, Casa Fortaleza also reallocated outreach capacity toward workshop-based learning environments, resulting in 45 outreach engagements reaching over 1,886 individuals, while expanding facilitated spaces for dialogue and skill-building across the community.
Much of this growth has been made possible through the leadership of our Promotoras teams—who support workshops, outreach efforts, and community-based healing spaces across Albuquerque and surrounding communities.
Together, these shifts reflect strengthened partnerships, expanded access to culturally specific services, and deeper engagement with the communities we serve.
Learn more about our impact by exploring our annual reports for FY2023, FY2024, and FY2025.
Food Sovereignty & Community Care
In addition to crisis response and advocacy services, Casa Fortaleza’s Community Pantry — launched in July 2025 — supports survivors and families in meeting their basic needs with dignity and cultural respect, directly addressing food insecurity as a key social determinant of health.
Since the launch of our pantry initiative, Casa Fortaleza has supported 416 households:
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608 kids
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884 Adults
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214 Seniors
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through the distribution of culturally familiar staple foods, including rice, beans, flour, and other essential items.
Access to food is a critical protective factor. When basic needs are met with dignity and cultural relevance, it can reduce harm associated with economic insecurity, support family stability, and strengthen connection to community-based networks of care.
This work reflects our commitment to health equity by addressing structural barriers that impact safety, wellbeing, and long-term healing — not only in moments of crisis, but in everyday life.