The Center for Orientation and Integral Research (COIN) is a private, social interest institution of the Dominican Republic, created on November 28, 1988 by a multidisciplinary team of people with shared experience in community and health work. The COIN obtained the benefit of legal incorporation through Decree No. 63-89 issued by the Executive Power on February 20, 1989.

We are born as a result of the emergence of the HIV / AIDS epidemic, trafficking and human trafficking in the Dominican Republic, and since then, COIN has concentrated its efforts on implementing educational programs for prevention and health care, addressing discrimination social to which groups marginalized by society are subjected, as a way of implementing novel approach strategies, effective with these groups, and in turn contribute to their empowerment. From its beginnings, for the approach with the marginalized populations, the COIN promotes the integration of the community in the processes of identification of their needs and problems and with them the work policies and their execution are defined.