If you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of a mental or behavioral health condition, not having someone to confide in or not knowing how to navigate available resources can make matters even worse.

The Bridges to Care program at Hodges Chapel AME offers mental and behavioral health support that includes:

• Confidentiality
• A compassionate listening ear
• Help finding educational resources
• Help connecting with professional service providers
• Help connecting with peer and family support groups

Wellness Champions at Hodges Chapel AME have received training from NAMI San Antonio to be companions to those struggling with mental and behavioral health concerns.

Please reach out if you or someone close to you would benefit from their support.

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Community Health Workers, or Promotores de Salud, increase wellness by reaching out to, connecting with, and engaging underserved families and communities to help improve health outcomes for themselves, their families, and the communities in which they live.

Methodist Healthcare Ministries' Community Health Workers are certified by the Texas Department of State Health (DSHS).

Services include:

• Establishing positive, trusting relationships with community residents in or from underserved communities.
• Helping patients/clients, families, and underserved communities overcome barriers in language and culture to better connect to quality health care services and resources.
• Connecting underserved populations to health care services and resources.
• Providing informal counseling, support, and follow-up home visits for patients/clients.
• Aiding in the creation and maintenance of community partnerships, collaborations, programs, and services.

To report violations against the Code of Conduct by clergy.

Clergy Abuse Reporting Procedures

Reporting Non-Clergy Abuse

Rights of the Survivor

Maria Goretti Network

Archiocesan Review Board

Archiocesan Review Board Bylaws

Implementation of Recomendations of the Lay Commission

Child Protection

Steve Martinez, LCSW, LSOTP
Director
(210) 734-7786

[email protected]

Storie Arredondo
Associate Director
(210) 734-7786

[email protected]

Norma Alvarado
Administrative Assistant
(210) 734-7786

[email protected]

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at David Crockett Academy.

Community Counselors help people who are uninsured, whose existing coverage does not provide mental health services benefits, who are low-income and lack the money to pay for counseling services, or who would not receive treatment any other way.

Counseling services are provided by trained, licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed marriage and family counselors. Sessions are private and conducted in a safe and familiar environment such as churches and community centers.

The first meeting with a counselor is free. A modest fee based on a sliding fee scale is collected for each follow-up session; however, no one is denied service because they cannot pay.

The work of the Secretariat for Mission in the fields of Life, Justice, and Peace focuses on issues such as abortion and post-abortion healing, assisted suicide, the death penalty, human trafficking, homelessness, poverty, immigration, foster care, healthcare, religious freedom, and environmental justice, aiming to develop an authentic human ecology for the communities of San Antonio.

To build a culture of life, justice, and peace in our communities and beyond. The Archdiocese offers educational and formational lectures, information, and resources on the Works of Mercy and Catholic Social Teaching. We assist in building and sustaining strategic leadership in parishes and with community partners through training, advocacy, prayer, and service.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at De Zavala Elementary School.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at JT Brackenridge Academy.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at JT Brackenridge Elementary.

In the Spring of 2022 our  Children’s Cancer Support Center opened it’s doors  to address this problem directly by providing special programming that offers cancer support groups, bereavement support groups, educational workshops, health and wellness support, resources and referrals as well as social activities for families. It’s the city’s first cancer support center exclusively for children. 

Our programs are designed to empower parents by providing them with the tools necessary to improve their social connections, give them sense of control and provide a holistic approach to help them navigate their child’s cancer diagnosis. We believe that this will improve the lives and the health and wellness of both the body and mind. 

We know that it takes a community to overcome the challenges that come with a childhood cancer diagnosis. For families that are feeling alone or isolated due to their child’s diagnosis, we believe that  they will  find the support they need when they come to the Children’s Cancer Support Center. 

The Children’s Cancer Support Center provides resources and support for families that have a child diagnosed with cancer by taking a holistic approach to help in all areas including mental and social factors affecting the entire family. 

Programs offered at the center include the following:

• Mental Health Support Services - support and networking groups for cancer families and bereaved cancer families
• Resources & Referrals - connecting members to other services in the community
• Health and wellness programs- through strategic partnerships with the community
• Educational Workshops - presentations by experts in their field
• Social Activities - fun social events for children and their families
• Financial Assiatnce-Financial assistance may be available for families who have a child undergoing active treatment.

Calendar of events can be viewed here.

To qualify, families must have a child who has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently receiving treatment in San Antonio.

Application can be found here.

Services are provided for FREE and at no cost to families of children diagnosed with cancer.

NAMI Greater San Antonio is here to provide support during this difficult time. If you are going through, stress, anxiety, depression, or any other mental health condition please join us.

These groups are currently being held virtually via Zoom.

Individuals 18 + who have experienced symptoms of a mental health condition

Space is limited so register in advance for this meeting. Click here to register.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Free.

Play Therapy is a form of therapy predominantly useful for children between the ages of three and 12. It is used by all types of mental health experts.

Play Therapy is a form of therapy that we use to help children to express themselves, open up, communicate, and heal.

Play Therapy has been proven to help children to develop coping mechanisms for traumas they may have suffered. It also increases self-esteem self-awareness and social skills.

Play Therapy can also help children learn to alleviate anxiety while also improving relationships among family and friends.

Accepted Payment Methods:

• Visa
• Mastercard
• American Express
• Discover
• PayPal

Testing, Assessments and Evaluations

• Diagnostic Psychiatric Evaluation
• Competency Evaluation
• Assessment for Developmental Disabilities
• Autism Spectrum Disoder
• Intellectual  Disability
• Attention Deficit Hyper Active Disorder

Services

• Play Therapy
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Couples Therapy
• Parent Coaching
• Military Transitions
• Deployment 
• Combat Stress 
• PTSD Counseling
• Depression
• Crisis Counseling
• Anger Management
• Stress Management
• Trauma
• Behavior Modification

Accepted Payment Methods:

• Visa
• Mastercard
• Discover
• American Express
• PayPal

Community First Health Plans (CFHP) helps families, children, expectant mothers, and children with special needs access affordable health coverage.

Our goal is to help you, from learning how to best use your plan benefits to locating one of our network doctors in your neighborhood.

CFHP assists with the following programs:

• STAR Medicaid
• CHIP/CHIP Perinatal
• STAR Kids

CFHP also provides these Health and Wellness programs to members at no added cost:

• Healthy Expectations
• Asthma Matters
• Healthy Mind
• Diabetes in Control
• Healthy Living
• Healthy Heart
• Empowering Pathway
• Financial Wellness

CFHP also provides these services to members at no added cost:

• 24/7 Nurse Advice Line
• Member Services Hotlines
• Help with finding doctors

Must qualify and become a CFHP member.

Who may qualify:

• Children age 18 or younger (up to age 20 in some cases)
• A pregnant woman of any age
• A Texas resident
• A U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident (Only the child must be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to be considered for coverage. The citizenship or immigration status of the parent will not be asked.)
• Must meet the family income guidelines as set by Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC).

Click here to fill out the form or call the office for more assistance.

We can help you find the right health plan for you and your family. Quickly see what plan(s) you qualify for in just a few simple steps. Click Here.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at Maverick Elementary.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at Madison Elementary.

Free

Free

Free

Nueva Vida Behavioral Health Associates is a mental health organization that supports individuals and families in developing coping skills and strategies to facilitate each client’s development and ensure successful life transitions enhancing physical, emotional, social, and vocational functioning.

In dedicating ourselves to providing the highest standards of mental health care, we strive to implement a comprehensive approach involving all systems of the client’s treatment. We view it critical to establish and maintain working relationships with support systems important to our clients’ growth and development.

Ages: 4+.

Click here for a list of client forms.

We accept all major insurances, including Medicare and Medicaid.

Click here to view list of insurance

Nueva Vida is dedicated to providing professional psychological services to the community.

Ages: 4+.

Click here for a list of client forms.

We accept all major insurances, including Medicare and Medicaid.

Click here to view insurance list

Supportive Outpatient Programs (SOP) are for those seeking mental rehab or drug rehab, but who also stay at home every night. The main difference between supportive outpatient treatment (SOP) and intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) lies in the amount of hours the patient spends at the facility.

Most of the time an outpatient program is designed for someone who has completed an inpatient stay and is looking to continue their growth in recovery. Outpatient is not meant to be the starting point, it is commonly referred to as aftercare.

Eligibility:

• Substance abuse/dependence
• Adolescents 13-17 years of age
• Adults age 18 and over
• Court mandated
• Private pay and medically indigent

We accept: 

• Superior
• Community First
• Medicaid

We also do a sliding scale for those in need.  Call us for rates and information.

Community Counselors help people who are uninsured, whose existing coverage does not provide mental health services benefits, who are low-income and lack the money to pay for counseling services, or who would not receive treatment any other way. 

Counseling services are provided by trained, licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed marriage and family counselors. Sessions are private and conducted in a safe and familiar environment such as churches and community centers.

The first meeting with a counselor is free. A modest fee based on a sliding fee scale is collected for each follow-up session; however, no one is denied service because they cannot pay.

The Harvey E. Najim Hope Center is a specialized outpatient mental health clinic that provides accessible mental health services for children and families as a result of abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment.

We serve individuals aged 3-23 who may have experienced trauma, as well as caregivers of 12-19-year-olds who have qualified for our services.

Please call for payment information.

The primary purpose of August House is to provide a structured and safe environment for members to help support and encourage recovery. 

They provide adult men in recovery with an environment that inspires growth and change.

The house is updated with many amenities, including:

• rides to meetings
• on-site laundry and gym
• utilities and food included in rent

They require attendance and full participation in 12-step groups on a weekly basis and/or other recovery related activities.

There is a curfew and basic household chores. Employment and/or enrollment in an educational/vocational program is mandatory unless exempted by management.

Cost $190 per week payable weekly, biweekly and monthly.

If you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of a mental or behavioral health condition, not having someone to confide in or not knowing how to navigate available resources can make matters even worse.

The Bridges to Care program at Mt Zion First Baptist Church offers mental and behavioral health support that includes:

• Confidentiality
• A compassionate listening ear
• Help finding educational resources
• Help connecting with professional service providers
• Help connecting with peer and family support groups

Wellness Champions at Mt Zion First Baptist Church have received training from NAMI San Antonio to be companions to those struggling with mental and behavioral health concerns.

Please reach out if you or someone close to you would benefit from their support.

Free

NW San Antonio TC has a dedicated team of treatment specialists including doctors, nurses, and counselors to provide comprehensive opioid addiction treatment and recovery services.

Our Services for Opioid Addiction Treatment:

• Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT): prescription medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, or Suboxone to address withdrawal symptoms and cravings
• Counseling: individual one-on-one, group and family
• Medically supervised withdrawal
• Medical exams to ensure safety
• Convenient outpatient services
• Referrals
• Confidentiality
• Take-home benefits after meeting key criteria

New patients, call (877) 284-7074 to set your appointment.

Accepted Insurance:

• Aetna
• Allwell
• Ambetter
• Amerigroup
• Beacon Health Options
• Cigna
• Community First Health Plans
• Humana
• Magellan
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Molina Healthcare
• Superior HealthPlan
• Texas Targeted Opioid Response
• TriWest

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at Douglass Academy.

Community Mental Health Center

Our Outpatient Program continues to provide support and resources as clients demonstrate symptom improvement and prepare to transition from group therapy to individual services.

Outpatient clients attend up to 19 hours per week.  This schedule empowers clients to establish or maintain independent activities while continuing to receive encouragement and support from their therapy groups.  Participation in our Outpatient Program is determined by presenting concerns and improvement in symptom management and is subject to insurance benefits.

For clients who demonstrate symptom improvement and prepare to transition from group therapy to individual services.

Free Needs Assessment

• Health plans which we accept:
• Medicare
• Superior Health Plan
• United Health Care
• BlueCrossBlueShield
• United Behavioral Health

Our program serves as a step down from inpatient care, allowing clients to receive services during the day and return to their homes in the afternoon.  PHP is intended for clients who are experiencing a significant increase or change in symptoms but do not require hospitalization.  

PHP is also appropriate for clients who have recently been discharged from an inpatient program. Our PHP includes 4 sessions of group therapy, 5 days per week. Attending daily therapy allows for structure and consistency as clients stabilize and establish successful coping skills.

• For clients who are experiencing a significant increase or change in symptoms but do not require hospitalization.
• PHP is also appropriate for clients who have recently been discharged from an inpatient program.

Free Needs Assessment

Health plans which we accept:

• Medicare
• Superior Health Plan
• United Healthcare
• BlueCross BlueShield
• United Behavioral Health