The Dual Generation program is focused on helping parents go to college or job training and making sure their children receive an appropriate developmental level of education. We can provide childcare for the parents to attend school/training and assist with job placement after completion (or during if needed).

Tuition assistance available for job training programs:

• GED/High School Diploma
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
• Medical Assistant
• Pharmacy Technician
• Commercial Driver License (CDL)
• Bookkeeping / QuickBooks
• Medical Front Office
• Administrative Assistant w/ Phlebotomy
• Child Development Associate (CDA)
• Information Technology
• Customer Service Financial Services
• Paraprofessional Educator Training

Monthly support and access to:

• Job & Career Exploration
• Quality Childcare
• Resume Building
• Supportive Services
• Transportation Assistance

To qualify, a family must:

• have at least 1 child aged 0-10; and
• live in one of these zip codes: 78202, 78203, 78205, 78207, 78208, 78210, 78215, 78218, 78219, 78220, 78222, 78227, 78237.

The Dual Generation program is focused on helping parents go to college or job training and making sure their children receive an appropriate developmental level of education. We can provide childcare for the parents to attend school/training and assist with job placement after completion (or during if needed).

Tuition assistance available for job training programs:

• GED/High School Diploma
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
• Medical Assistant
• Pharmacy Technician
• Commercial Driver License (CDL)
• Administrative Assistant
• Bookkeeping / QuickBooks
• Medical Front Office
• Phlebotomy
• Child Development Associate (CDA)
• Information Technology
• Entrepreneurship
• Electrical Trade Skills Training

Monthly support and access to:

• Financial Empowerment Sessions
• Job & Career Exploration
• Parenting Classes
• Quality Childcare
• Resume Building
• Supportive Services
• Transportation Assistance

To qualify, a family must:

• have at least 1 child aged 0-10; and
• live in one of these zip codes: 78202, 78203, 78205, 78207, 78208, 78210, 78215, 78218, 78219, 78220, 78222, 78227, 78237.

Chrysalis Ministries offers in-house life skill classes for all clients. We also partner with multiple non-profits to help further client's education.

Available classes:

• Job Readiness and Career Development with two annual job fairs (No fee required)
• Money Management
• 12-Step Faith-based Substance Abuse and Recovery (NA & AA)
• Anger Management Class ($55 fee)
• Theft Addiction and Recovery
• Healthy Relationships
• Seeking Safety: PTSD and Substance Abuse Pastoral Counseling (No fee)
• Parenting Classes (No cost)
• Moral Recognition Therapy (No charge)

Click here for program times & dates.

Fees vary

Case Managers direct families to many Any Baby Can program as well as help link families to many local and state programs. All Any Baby Can services are offered at no cost - regardless of income - to families who have a child birth through 17 years of age with a chronic illness, disability, developmental delay or health risk and who reside in Bexar County or one of the surrounding 18 counties.

Any Baby Can is a provider of the Texas Department of State Health Services-Children with Special Health Care Needs Program. 

 Please click here to get started now!

The child must reside in either Bexar, Atascosa, Bandera, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Medina, Real, Uvalde or Wilson County.

Free.

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 Westminster Square 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 Westminster Square 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.

If you have hearing loss call Phone: 210-733-5908
TDD: 711

This youth developmental initiative is a community outreach project aimed at enhancing family and youth development in the areas of etiquette and manners; social graces; college and career preparedness and establishing your brand. Participants gain first hand knowledge of setting a table, financial literacy and effective use of social media.

Youth

Free

Career Gear is a non-profit organization that builds strong families and communities by empowering low-income men to overcome barriers and achieve self-sufficiency. We promote the economic independence of low-income men by providing financial literacy training, a network of support, professional attire, career development tools, job-readiness and essential life-skills training that help men enter the workforce, stay employed and become role models and mentors to their families and communities.

Career Gear provides professional clothing, mentoring and life-skills to help men in poverty become stronger contributors to their families and communities.

Career Gear Clothing Boutique has a large selection of sizes and colors. Clients pick out their business outfit with the help of a Direct Service Coordinator.

Men who are considered to be low-income

Free

We are a networking organization for the women of Dress for Success, a place to empower yourself, a place to give back.
At a PWG meeting, we begin with networking time and then a speaker shares in their area of expertise.

Topics taught and discussed include:

• Financial Literacy
• Health and Wellness
• Balancing Work and Life
• Time Management
• Professional Development
• Professional Image Consulting

Only for women

Free

If you are experiencing homelessness, the PATH outreach team can connect you to:

• health care
• income support
• legal services
• mental health treatment
• rehabilitation training in social skills
• social services
• substance use treatment
• ID recovery
• referrals for affordable housing and employment

The PATH Program serves people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness and serious mental illness.

Never worry about money again with Financial Peace University! It’s the proven plan to help you master budgeting, beat debt, and live the life of your dreams. Through nine lessons rooted in biblical wisdom, you’ll learn from Dave Ramsey and his team of financial experts. Tell your money where to go instead of wondering where it went! Join a virtual or in-person Financial Peace University class and learn to make a budget you’ll actually stick to.

Contact Morris Camp, [email protected], 210-573-4433 for more information on this group.

Members of our congregation and ministry partners such as the SA Hope Center (formerly the Christian Hope Resource Center, or CHRC), Christian Assistance Ministries (CAM), Any Woman Can (AWC), and others provide opportunities toward holistic transformation for neighbors who are struggling.

Note: Some of our partner organizations keep different on-site hours than those listed below for KRL.

Mentors from SA Hope Center are available to meet with guests to develop a long-term proactive plan to become more self-sufficient. Walk-in hours for one-time assistance and ID recovery: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM.

Use the 4th St basement entrance.

Free

The Financial and Housing Recovery Center is part of the Recovery and Resiliency Plan for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The plan includes a section on community resilience, which ensures that households and businesses affected by COVID-19 have the resources and tools to become financially resilient and better prepared to withstand future economic challenges.

Financial Benefits Navigation
Through Financial Benefits Navigation we work with federal, state, and local benefits providers and with community partners, to include referral services such as unemployment, TANF, CHIP, housing authority waitlist registration, utility assistance, rent/mortgage assistance, etc.

Financial Counseling
Financial Counselors through the Financial and Housing Recovery Center, assist residents with budgeting, debt management, credit report education, and linking to positive products through Bank On San Antonio, etc.

The Financial and Housing Recovery Center is part of the Recovery and Resiliency Plan for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The plan includes a section on community resilience, which ensures that households and businesses affected by COVID-19 have the resources and tools to become financially resilient and better prepared to withstand future economic challenges.

Financial Benefits Navigation
Through Financial Benefits Navigation we work with federal, state, and local benefits providers and with community partners, to include referral services such as unemployment, TANF, CHIP, housing authority waitlist registration, utility assistance, rent/mortgage assistance, etc.

Financial Counseling
Financial Counselors through the Financial and Housing Recovery Center, assist residents with budgeting, debt management, credit report education, and linking to positive products through Bank On San Antonio, etc.

Need help managing or reducing your household debt?

Want advice on how to build or restore your personal credit?

Have a budget but need some specific tips on how to better save for retirement or other goals?

The San Antonio Financial Empowerment Centers offer free, one-on-one professional financial counseling to all residents.

Certified financial counselors are available for personalized guidance and can help you deal with a wide range of personal financial issues. Counselors can help you:

• Take control of your debt
• Deal with debt collectors
• Improve your credit
• Build your savings
• Create a budget and create a plan to stick to it
• Find safe and affordable financial products
• Other services based on your needs

Counseling help is available in both English and Spanish.

This location also has a Benefits Navigation program that can assist with applications such as food stamps, Medicaid, etc.

Services are always free and available to all residents regardless of income.

Daytime, evening and weekend appointments are available.

Click here for more information.

The SCORE Business Learning Center (SBLC) provides aspiring and existing small business owners with in-depth online learning paths of specific business topics, such as online marketing, startup basics, and more.

At the end of a learning path, users will feel they better understand their chosen topic and the resources available for continuous learning. They will also have a mentor they can work with to apply the knowledge to their business.

Click here to access the Learning Center and all of its resources.

The Startup Roadmap: Your Guide to Successfully Starting a Business.

The Startup Roadmap, sponsored by FedEx, outlines each business step with information and resources on the most challenging tasks. It also contains tips for working "With Your Mentor" on each topic.

Click here to start your journey.

Each chapter of the Startup Roadmap contains:

• Steps to Success: A series of steps you complete to move on to the next chapter. Each stage contains concrete, actionable tasks to complete and information to help you. Some measures include recommended homework; your mentor may recommend additional work.
• With Your Mentor: This section suggests topics you can discuss with your mentor. This might include questions you can ask or recommendations on what types of mentors might be best to help you with the current topic.
• Resources: Information and resources, including tools, templates, and online workshops, to help you learn more or complete the steps in that chapter.

Work on the Startup Roadmap with a SCORE mentor to reach your destination faster.

Like an experienced tour guide, your SCORE mentor can point out things you might otherwise miss, offer insider suggestions and shortcuts, and help you make the most of your journey.

If you dream of business ownership and want clear directions to reach your destination successfully, start the SCORE Startup Roadmap today. And if you work with a SCORE mentor, you don’t have to travel alone.

We provide clothing, shoes, and hygiene items to homeless veterans that are in need. We partner with the shelter for homeless veterans to help those that served our country. No veteran should be homeless after putting their lives on the line for their country.

We offer free financial literacy classes as preventative measures to reduce homelessness in our military population. The classes are designed to teach how money works, how to invest, and how to utilize VA home loans.

Veterans; must show a need and a provide military ID or DD214.

Free

CivTechSA provides an opportunity for students to solve real-world civic challenges from numerous City of San Antonio Departments and from the Smart SA Partners to gain necessary skills for their future. Throughout the year, students engage with partners while working on civic challenges during pitch competitions, showcases and class projects. This collaboration between students and partners help foster innovation and creativity!

Students, if you are interested in bringing civic challenges into your classroom, please contact CivTechSA at [email protected].

LiftFund provides affordable loans and education to small businesses and entrepreneurs who do not have access to credit from commercial sources.

In response to the economic impact the pandemic has had on small businesses, LiftFund has partnered with various organizations to offer economic relief funding to local entrepreneurs.

Please click here to see available programs.

Free

Faith & Finances teaches that God’s plan for your money might be larger than yours! Biblical principles about money came alive in this highly interactive course, as students are equipped to conquer the ‘battle of the budget.’ Classes are open to individuals, families, and youth. Duration of 10-12 weeks.

Click here for registration information and program times.

Early Head Start provides comprehensive child and family development services year-round for low-income families with infants and toddlers ages birth to three years.

The program aims to enhance children's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development for school readiness, support parents' efforts to fulfill their parental roles, and help parents move toward self-sufficiency.

AVANCE-San Antonio offers a two-option program: home-based and center-based options at licensed childhood development centers.

Home-based Option

• Weekly Home Visits
• Bi-Weekly Group Socializations

Center-based Option

• Infant/Toddler Child Development Classrooms
• Early Childhood Education and Development
• Services for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs
• Bilingual and Dual Language

Support Services

• Health & Dental Screenings
• Developmental and Social-Emotional Screenings
• Child and Family Mental Health (ECI)
• Nutrition Services and Education
• Home Visits
• Parent Education & Services to Fathers
• Linkage to Community Resources
• Transportation (if needed)

Adult Education

• Parental Engagement & Workforce Pathways

We offer high-quality, early childhood education for children 6 weeks through 3 years.

Head Start is a federally funded program provided at no cost for qualifying families.

Individuals who have had any criminal justice involvement in the past and are looking to plan their personal comeback can find assistance at the Bexar County Reentry Center.

Our Reentry team can help you increase your level of employability, obtain higher educational levels, and acquire specialized job training. A variety of other services and resources are also available to you as well. Call us for an appointment!

Free

The Ventanilla program represents a new integral part of service delivery at the Mexican Consulate and provides Mexican immigrants who are new to the U.S. financial system with access to vital resources for getting banked, gaining access to free tax preparation and the Earned Income Tax Credit, establishing credit and building a secure financial future within the trusted and culturally relevant setting of the Consulate strengthening the financial stability of immigrant households by embedding financial empowerment strategies into local and intergovernmental infrastructure.

To learn more about Ventanilla de Asesoria Financiera click here.

Recognizing the intersectionality of empowerment, our economic empowerment program aims to uplift women economically.

Participants gain financial literacy, entrepreneurial skills, job readiness, and access to resources, fostering economic independence and stability.

All women affected by all types of trauma

Free

The Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program is a voluntary five-year incentive program that allows Housing Choice Voucher and Public Housing residents to accrue money in an escrow account as their earned income increases, allowing participants to become self-sufficient. Any increases in the family’s rent as a result of increased earned income during the family’s participation in the program results in a credit to the family’s escrow account. Once a family successfully graduates from the program, they may access the escrow and use it for any purpose. The FSS program does not affect eligibility for continued housing.

Upon successful completion of the FSS program, the escrow money saved can be used for any financial or educational goal the participant chooses. While completing homeownership and credit counseling classes may be required goals, the main purpose of the FSS program is to educate and transition FSS participants towards economic independence and financial empowerment.

The FSS Coordinator works with FSS participants in creating a plan to meet both individual and program goals. In conjunction with community partners, participants will be assisted with the tools needed to become self-sufficient, including but not limited to:

• Job Skills Training
• Employment counseling
• Educational and scholarship opportunities
• Homeownership classes and counseling
• Financial literacy classes and counseling

All Bexar County residents receiving assistance through the Housing Authority of Bexar County’s (HABC) Housing Choice Voucher or Public Housing programs are eligible to participate in the FSS program, including all adult family members. As the requirement of the program dictates, only earned wages are calculated for the escrow incentive.

Money Smart Classes: Case management staff, in partnership with financial organizations trained in FDIC curriculum, offer quarterly Money Smart classes at our public housing communities. Topics include: borrowing basics, pay yourself first, banking services, budgeting, repairing your credit, and homeownership.

Back To School Drives: FSS case managers organize back-to-school drives to help residents with costs of school supplies. The funds raised pay for school supplies, uniforms, immunizations and haircuts.

Health Fairs: Case managers participate in and support community health fairs.

Employment Fairs: Family Self-sufficiency provides residents information on upcoming job fairs and assists with transportation, resume preparation, interview technique and necessary job skills.

Summer Youth Employment: HABC provides youth, ages 14 to 24, the opportunity to learn on-the-job training during the summer months. Employment may be with HABC or with one of our partners.

Thanksgiving Baskets: During the holiday season, case and property management staff identify needy families and supply holiday meals to them.

Our education program provides ongoing impact to families through classes, training, and support in the following forms: 

• parenting support groups and classes
• home-visits
• tutoring
• GED
• computer and financial literacy
• Art and design
• reading & writing
• we provide mentorship

Target Population: Low-income children ages 0-17 and adults 18 years of age and over.

• Computer Skills Classes
• Free Computer Use

This program offers assistance for anyone over the age of 18 who is receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and or Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits. The Financial Wellness and Care program applies to Social Security on the client's behalf so Catholic Charities can become their Representative Payee. The goal of this program is to prevent financial abuse, neglect, and exploitation of the SSI recipients in the community.

The program currently charges all clients a $45 a month fee and ensures the client's bills will be paid on time.

The Guadalupe Community Center provides free, wrap-around support and advocacy services to help individuals and families in need work towards self-sufficiency.

*No funds currently available*

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.