Category: Texas

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 […]

By Jessica Cerda, WestCare Texas In partnership with the Pagasus night club, BEAT AIDS, The Queen Fantasia, and Tundra Hall, WestCare Texas presented the “Current State of HIV and Medicine,” a panel discussion and Q&A with BEAT AIDS Outreach Coordinator, Elizabeth Tijerina and local drag queens, The Queen Fantasia and Tundra Hall. The panel was […]

Jessica Cerda, WestCare Texas WestCare Texas partnered with the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) to host a special event on Saturday, August 14th at the Second Baptist Church Community Center that focused on preparing students and families for the new school year as well as building community trust between residents and police officers. “How you […]

By Jessica Cerda, WestCare Texas  The capacity to help those in need of mental healthcare and services in San Antonio’s Eastside has significantly increased as a result of the Bridges to Care program, which links individuals to behavioral health services and training through spiritual and faith-based communities. “Because of [WestCare’s] generosity, families are being impacted, communities […]

Wire Article By Cary Clack, San Antonio Express-News A few weeks ago, two teachers who’d once worked together crossed paths in a local Costco. It had been more than 20 years, but even behind their masks, the two women recognized each other. Their conversation quickly turned to COVID-19, with one expressing frustration that she’d been […]

By Linda Papayanopulus, Community Engagement Coordinator – WestCare Texas Texas faced record-low temperatures during a harsh winter storm this February, leaving millions without heat or water — a life-threatening situation in a state unaccustomed to and unprepared for the extreme cold. Although the unprecedented weather was shared by millions left shivering in their own homes, […]