The Guadalupe Community Center is dedicated to providing support and advocacy services to individuals and families in need.
Guadalupe Community Center is a project of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio.
We pride ourselves on providing wrap around services to the community in the hope that each individual will ultimately work towards self-sufficiency.
During 40 Days of Service, our community comes together to serve our most vulnerable with love, respect, and dignity. Inspired by the calls to prayer, fasting, and charity during Lent, the 40 days leading to Easter, 40 Days of Service now engages thousands of people every year.
Our extensive range of service opportunities impacts the residents at our shelters, families with young children, people struggling with food insecurity, school-aged children, veterans, seniors, and others.
Click here for a calendar of service opportunities and to register.
Free tutoring, extracurricular activities, and fresh meals for students in grades K-12. Trained staff and volunteers provide guidance and mentoring by offering homework assistance to ensure students succeed in academics and promote to the next level.
Reading Specialists promote literacy and a lifelong love of reading for academic success.
The curriculum has been expanded to include increased access to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) modules.
Students in grades K-12.
Please call for additional information.
Free
One-time emergency financial assistance to prevent utility disconnection, financial coaching, and budget assessment for income-eligible individuals and families.
Please contact Guadalupe Community Service for additional information.
Mobile Relief and Shower Trailer provide immediate family and support services through the San Antonio and surrounding 19 counties of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The Mobile Relief Unit includes a mobile food pantry and USDA-certified kitchen to serve warm, fresh meals. The shower trailer has two bathroom units with sink, toilet, and shower, as well as laundry machines.
Catholic Charities provides free sack lunches at this location for our unsheltered homeless neighbors.
Guadalupe Community Center is now offering assistance with SNAP benefits.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps people buy food for good health. SNAP food benefits are put on a spending card and can be used as a debit card at any store that accepts SNAP.
Our case managers are available by appointment to provide assistance in accessing the resources if you qualify.
Site-based outreach events to increase awareness and accessibility of health screenings, wellness and safety information, and social service programs among the community.
During Lent, Catholics and non-Catholics join together to host food drives, donate food, or financially support the St. Stephen's Food Pantry that supplies our food pantries with the goal of raising 100,000 pounds of food.
There are four easy and flexible ways to participate:
- Host a food drive
- Shop off a list and drop it off at St. Stephen's CARE Center
- Cyber shop on Amazon and have food delivered to us
- Donate to keep our shelves stocked
Click here for more information.
In partnership with ESC Region-20, this program offers classes in citizenship, English as a second language and money management, both of which promote self-sufficiency for a secure future.
Please call for additional information.
Free.
Program offers assistance to clients recovering from a natural or manmade disaster, including hurricanes, fire, or flood.
Assistance provided with Red Cross referral or FEMA documentation. Assistance provided with food, clothing, household items, transportation, utility, or rental assistance based on availability of funding.
With a goal of increasing the financial stability of working individuals and families in poor and aid persecuted Christians, is a community garden used as a resource to not only augment the Food Pantry, but as a teaching tool for students enrolled in the After School and Summer Youth Program.
Click here to see the St. Phocas Amazon Wishlist.
Provides legal aid to low-income and immigrant families, as well as to victims of crime, domestic violence and human trafficking.
Participants are offered legal information, and if necessary, referrals to legal aid or to other attorneys who may work on a sliding scale or a payment plan.
Our lawyers are experienced in multiple fields to offer clients the best legal advice on a wide range of legal issues:
- Guardianship – Legal help for family members of individuals who are unable to secure food, clothing, or shelter for themselves or need help making decisions.
- Wills – End-of-life legal preparations including power of attorney, simple wills, and probate management.
- Property Deeds – Assistance with transferring homes to loved ones during their life or upon death.
- Financial Wellness and Care – Legal aid for those who have limited ability to manage their personal finances.
- Immigration Assistance – Legal aid to help immigrants and refugees secure their legal immigration status. Every person has a unique situation. At Caritas Legal Services, we will try our best to find immigration relief that will allow you to stay in the USA and work legally. Caritas Legal Services have grants that can help immigration to reduce the fee or waive the fee.
Please contact Caritas Legal Services for additional information at (210) 433-3256.
Free.
Adopt-A-Senior
Pairing of volunteers with isolated seniors to provide basic needs and companionship.
After School Program
Free program to students in Kindergarten through 12th grade to receive tutoring and mentoring after school as well as extracurricular activities and social activities in a safe environment.
Clothes Closet
New and gently used clothing for babies through adults.
Disaster Relief
Immediate assistance for our neighbors who are displaced due to unforeseen circumstances, a natural disaster, or a humanitarian crisis.
Emergency Financial Assistance
One-time emergency financial assistance to prevent homelessness and utility disconnection as well as provide financial coaching and budgeting assessment for income-eligible individuals and families.
Food Pantry
Free canned food, dry goods, meat, dairy, and baked goods distributed safely through a drive-through distribution.
Homeless Prevention
Provides eligible individuals and families with holistic case management, basic needs, and rental assistance while providing guidance on life skills, housing stability, and self-sufficiency resources.
Mobile Relief Units
Mobile Relief and Shower Trailer provide immediate family and support services through the San Antonio and surrounding 19 counties of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The Mobile Relief Unit includes a mobile food pantry and USDA-certified kitchen to serve warm, fresh meals. The shower trailer has two bathroom units with sink, toilet, and shower, as well as laundry machines.
Project Cool
Free box fan distribution for seniors 60 and older and the disabled from June 1 through September 30.
St. Phocas Garden
Provides organic produce all year long to supplement the St. Stephen’s CARE Center Food Pantry.
St. Stephen’s CARE Center Food Pantry
A client-choice food pantry that is currently a curbside pick-up station for individuals and families to receive canned goods, dry goods, dairy, meat, and produce.
Veronica’s Boutique
Free baby-related material assistance and parenting resources for pregnant or parenting mothers of children younger than three years old.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
Free tax preparation for individuals who earn up to $55,000 annually within 72 hours.
(210) 222-2975
$50.00 consultation fee, although some fees may be waived if grant funding is available.
Through advocacy, education and direct service, the Immigration Services works toward the just and humane treatment of all immigrants by helping them to achieve the full benefits available to them under immigration law.
Providing professional consultation and reduced-fee legal services, the Immigration Services focuses on reuniting families by guiding immigrants through the complex legal process.
All individuals and families seeking legal services must first undergo a consultation. Through our consultation process, our staff is able to fully assess the extent of a client’s situation and provide the most appropriate options available.
$50 consultation fee. Some fees may be waived if grant funding is available.
Please contact Caritas Legal Services for additional information at (210) 433-3256.