Category: Texas

By Alisa Garza, Administrative Assistant In the month of January, WestCare Texas was honored to be a sponsor and presenter for DreamVoice LLC’s DreamWeek, an annual series of hundreds of events presented by local organizations and individuals with the mutual goal of honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and fostering the free […]

By Alisa Garza, Administrative Assistant In collaboration with Pearl Street Church, WestCare Texas hosted families from Bowden Academy as well as Eastside families from the WestCare Summer Extravaganza Camp at a special holiday event at the Ella Austin Community Center. Many families served by WestCare Texas throughout the year do not have the means to […]

By Alisa Garza, Administrative Assistant During the holiday season, family food security is a top concern for the neighborhoods that WestCare Texas’ team in San Antonio is proud to serve. November is a time when households come together and give thanks for the blessings of the year and look forward to starting a new chapter. […]

By Alisa Garza, Administrative Assistant WestCare Texas’ team in Laredo was honored with a site visit from the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to review the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program and receive strategic input from us about the challenges faced by drug prevention organizations working next to the U.S.-Mexico border. […]

By Jessica Cerda, WestCare Texas  The WestCare Texas team in Laredo recently helped facilitate a major gathering of school counselors to better prepare them for the large challenges that they’ll face with local substance abuse, narcotics, human trafficking, and mental health issues that have been elevated by the proximity to the U.S./Mexico border between Laredo, […]

By Jessica Cerda While LGBT Pride Month focuses on the pursuit of equality and celebrates the accomplishments of LGBTQIA+ individuals, WestCare Texas – San Antonio is placing focus on prevention as it is one of the nation’s top hotspots for new HIV cases. Lead Prevention Navigator, Xavier Graves, teamed up with community partners to create […]

By Jessica Cerda WestCare Texas’s team in San Antonio teamed up with one of their, fellow community-based providers, Big Mama’s Safe House to honor the teachers at Booker T. Washington Elementary School in observance of Teacher Appreciation Week on May 3. As part of their “Don’t Stop Teaching/Don’t Stop Learning” campaign, t-shirts were specifically made […]

By Jessica Cerda As the school semester winds down this spring, the students, teachers, and parents at San Antonio Independent School District’s Artemisia Bowden Dual Language Academy are heating up the atmosphere with excitement for this year’s WestCare Texas Summer Extravaganza. “There is already a lot of buzz on campus,” said Pam Duesing, Director of […]

By Jessica Cerda WestCare Texas San Antonio put the “Care” in Caravan by serving the community’s most vulnerable in observance of World AIDS Day. On Saturday, December 4, a coalition of organizations including AmeriCorps Public Allies, BEAT AIDS, the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) Nursing Cardinal Wellness Center, Street Medicine, Women Veterans of San […]

By Jessica Cerda In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the team at WestCare Texas San Antonio forged great partnerships to save lives and provide relief in the face of disparities and disenfranchisement in the Eastside neighborhood and neighboring lower-socioeconomic ranked zip codes where WestCare is based. Local statistics showed that low-income Hispanic […]