Jobs at Puentes

We believe all immigrants, regardless of their legal status, should have access to relevant therapeutic spaces and thrive as equal members of the community. Our mission is to create innovative therapeutic spaces to promote holistic healing, the recovery of social agency, and engage community members to work towards collective immigration justice in the U.S. Puentes provides community-led and culturally-aligned mental health support to see families and communities stand in their strength. Our staff work collaboratively with our partners and promotores (community mobilizers) to help ease the pain that life can bring and nurture inherent strengths of each unique person to strengthen the fabric of the community. We serve nearly 250 people a year; provide psychosocial evaluations for attorneys representing undocumented families through immigration at pro-bono/low-bono rates, counsel individuals and families in Spanish, and offer group therapy centered on healing through the arts and activating youth leadership. Mental health has historically pathologized immigrants for doing what is necessary to survive under systems of oppression. Media and education do not amplify the strengths and diversity of the immigrant community. Our work is about helping immigrants rediscover and reclaim the story, identity and power they have that has been co-opted at best and demonized at worst. They deserve to know their individual, intergenerational, and cultural strength.