Little Medical School is an exciting new STEM program designed to introduce kindergartners through teens to medical careers. We feel that early exposure peeks interest and the desire to learn.

All services are delivered at the client's location.

Prices are negotiated based on the size of the class.

The YMCA is more than a gym. When you join the YMCA, you belong to a place where:

• parents find a safe, positive environment for children;
• families spend quality time together;
• children and teens learn what they can achieve;
• adults connect with friends and learn how to live healthier lives;
• communities thrive because neighbors support each other and give back;
• and we all build relationships that further our sense of belonging.

Click here to learn about everything that is provided at this location.

Click here to learn about Excel After the Bell, the YMCA's after-school program for children and teens.

A Wesley Nurse is a faith-based community nurse. The professional practice of the Wesley Nurse is not limited to the physical dimension of medical needs; rather, it includes a mind, body and spirit holistic approach.

While the Wesley Nurse program is a component of Methodist Healthcare Ministries' ecumenical outreach and located within churches, it does not teach a set of denominational beliefs.

All members of the community are welcome.

Free.

General Women’s Care:

• Family Planning
• Pre-Pregnancy Counseling
• Free Pregnancy Testing
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases Counseling and Treatment
• Well-Woman Care (Annual Physical)
• Gynecological Problems

Obstetric Care:

• Prenatal Orientation/Education
• Prenatal Care
• Obstetric Deliveries
• Post-Partum Education

At CommuniCare, we offer a comprehensive range of services to address various reproductive health issues.

With 11 women's health medical clinics in San Antonio, Boerne, and Hays County, we are fully equipped to conduct routine well-women exams, provide family planning advice, and advanced diagnostic procedures such as minimally invasive gynecological surgery.

We offer:

• Well-Woman Care Services
• Gynecology Services
• In-Office Procedures
• In-Office Sonography 
• Sexually Transmitted Disease Management
• Gynecologic Surgery
• Obstetrics Services

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.
• Aiding in the creation and maintenance of community partnerships, collaborations, programs, and services.

Methodist Healthcare Ministries’ Community Health Workers are certified by the Texas Department of State Health (DSHS) as:

• Completed an approved 160 hours competency-based instructor training program
• Complete 20 hours of continuing education every two years approved by DSHS to renew their certification
• Required courses include Introduction to Community Health;

1. Community Health Advocacy
2. Community Nutrition
3. Community Health Field Methods
4. Wellness and Health Promotion
5. Cooperative Community Health Education

Early Head Start and Head Start promote school readiness by encouraging parent involvement and through the cognitive, social, emotional, language, and physical development of children.

Early Head Start Requirements
Age: 6 weeks to 3 years
Our Early Head Start Centers have an income-based requirement. Though, we encourage everyone to apply.

Early Head Start Child Care Partnership is a new opportunity to support the partnering of Early Head Start Programs with Child Care Providers to expand the number of quality slots for infants and toddlers in San Antonio. Through partnership, Early Head Start grantees partner with center-based and family child care providers who agree to meet Early Head Start Program Performance Standards and Regulations and provide high-quality comprehensive, full-day, full-year services to infants and toddlers from low-income families.

The program provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services that enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of participating children. In addition, services provide young children ages birth to 36 months, with an array of comprehensive services including health, nutritional, behavioral, and family services.

Promotoras are state-certified community health workers who offer in-home parenting courses focusing on parenting strengths, growth and development of children, establishing nurturing routines, and guiding children's behavior. The parent education classes use a hands-on curriculum with a concurrent children's program, educational groups, follow-up services, and networking activities. The goal is to ensure children are kindergarten-ready and children have a safe, nurturing home.

A unique pilot program created by Councilwoman Gonzales, along with Family Service, it uses a peer-to-peer mentor model, allowing trained community members known as Promotoras, as well as parents in the same targeted zip code areas, to provide valuable in-home healthcare education to families.

District 5, zip codes 78207 and 78205 primarily, but the Promotoras can serve families throughout Bexar County for families with children under the age of 10.

Healthy Relationships is a multisession, small-group, skills-building program for men and women living with HIV/AIDS. The program is designed to reduce participants’ stress related to safer sexual behaviors and disclosure of their serostatus to family, friends, and sex partners. The program is based on social cognitive theory, which states that people learn by observing others successfully practicing new behavior.

• Defining stress and reinforcing coping skills with HIV-positive people across three life areas:

• Disclosing to family and friends
• Disclosing to sex partners and
• Building healthier and safer relationships

• Using modeling, role-play, and feedback to teach and practice skills related to coping with stress.
• Teaching decision-making skills around the issue of disclosure of HIV status.
• We provide participants with personal feedback reports to motivate a change in risky behaviors and continuance of protective behaviors.
• We use popular movie clips to set up disclosure and risk-reduction scenarios to stimulate discussions and role-plays.

Click here for more information or to register.

Many Men, Many Voices (3MV) is a seven-session, group-level intervention developed to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among black men who have sex with men (MSM) who may or may not identify themselves as gay. The intervention addresses factors that influence the behavior of black MSM: cultural, social, and religious norms; interactions between HIV and other STDs; sexual relationship dynamics; and the social influences that racism and homophobia have on HIV risk behaviors.

• Enhance self-esteem related to racial identity and sexual behavior.
• Educate clients about HIV risk and sensitize them to personal risk.
• Educate clients about interactions between HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and sensitize them to personal risk.
• Develop risk reduction strategies.
• Build a menu of behavioral options for HIV and other STD risk reduction, including those that one can act on individuals and those that require partner involvement.
• Train in risk reduction behavioral skills.
• Enhance self-efficacy related to behavioral skills.
• Train in partner communication and negotiation.
• Provide social support and relapse prevention.

Click here for more information or to register.

The San Antonio AIDS Foundation provides a continuum of care to low-income HIV-positive men, women, and transgender individuals. Our services include resource and benefits assistance, case management, mental health counseling, medical care, pharmacy services, housing, and a year-round hot meal program.

We offer onsite and mobile testing for HIV and STDs, as well as HIV prevention education presentations in local public schools, colleges and universities, adult probation facilities, and teen detention programs.

Services are only available to individuals living with HIV/AIDS who are registered clients of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation.

As a teenager, it can be difficult and rather awkward to approach your parents with questions about sex. For many teens, it can be easier or more comfortable to go to their friends for advice. However, there is a great deal of incorrect information out there and it is important to know what information should be accepted as fact.

In today’s society, with all the access to information we have on the internet, it can be extremely difficult to judge what information is accurate and what is not. The Teen Talk Team at San Antonio AIDS Foundation (SAAF) has created this website to provide access to detailed and accurate information about sex, life and everything else that comes along with being a teen.

Click here for the Teen Talk website.

Knowledge is power. The San Antonio AIDS Foundation continually educates the public about HIV - providing the tools to fight both the spread and stigma of the disease. From public school presentations and outreach in correctional facilities to workplace seminars and professional workshops - as well as through targeted social media campaigns - our prevention education team reaches tens of thousands of people a year.

Started in 1992, the "You're The Cure" program has been providing prevention education services to over 20,000 participants annually. Services are provided to eight school districts in Bexar County and to three school districts in surrounding counties. The San Antonio AIDS Foundation is the only AIDS service organization (ASO) that provides HIV/STD prevention education to school districts in Bexar County.

We partner with the following school districts for HIV/STD prevention education:

• San Antonio Independent School District
• Northeast Independent School District
• Northside Independent School District
• UT Teen Health

The program also works at local college campuses, charter schools, trade schools, drug treatment programs, juvenile and adult probations, and in correction facilities in Bexar County.

If you are interested in receiving prevention education services at your organization or business, please contact SAAF Prevention Education Coordinator Vanessa Zuniga, at (210) 225-4715 or [email protected].

Meeting Patients Where They Are and Guiding Them to Recovery

Eating Recovery Center is removing the barriers that can keep patients with anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders from receiving treatment. Through telebehavioral health programming, our Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (Virtual IOP) now offers the same world-class care—and outcomes—as our in-person treatment centers of excellence, for patients who:

• Live in locations with limited access to treatment
• Have time constraints due to work, school, or family obligations
• Are reluctant to receive treatment in person

Flexible, Individualized Treatment to Meet Patient Needs
With just a computer and internet connection, patients can participate in a comprehensive, guided eating disorder treatment program from their home, office, college dorm, or other private place, no matter where they are in life or their journey to recovery.

• Led by our team of licensed, renowned professionals with extensive training in telebehavioral health ethics and delivery
• Collaborative care teams – therapist, psychiatrist, and dietician provide virtual online therapy and treatment
• Small group sessions that allow patients to connect with peers and practice their skills in a supportive setting
• Joint Commissioned Accredited Programs
• Secure, encrypted software ensures therapy sessions are confidential and HIPAA-compliant
• Program offered in evening hours to accommodate busy schedules

Structured For Convenience

• Three, 3-hour groups weekly including:
  o Therapy groups
  o Nutrition groups
  o Meal support
• One weekly individual/family therapy session
• Bi-weekly sessions with a registered dietician
• Recovery Record mobile app, with a mood and food tracking log that keeps the treatment team connected to patients.

What We Treat

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
• Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Compulsive Overeating
• Diabulimia
• Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders (OSFED)

Please call 866-455-1422 for a FREE assessment by a Master’s level clinician.

Most major insurances accepted. 

• United Healthcare
• Aetna
• BCBS
• Cigna
• Huamana
• Kaiser Permanente
• Cofinity
• ComPsych
• Magellan Health
• Moda Health

Click here to learn more about insurance and payment

The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at Eating Recovery Center empowers patients to take ownership of their recovery and become active participants in their lives. Our Intensive Outpatient program is a flexible eating disorder treatment program that allows patients to work, go to school, or care for children during the day and sleep at home at night.

In IOP, patients are in treatment up to three days per week for up to 9 hours per week. Programming includes nutritional counseling, individual therapy, family therapy, supported meals and more.

Experienced professionals employ a number of therapeutic interventions in IOP, including:

• Family-Centered Treatment
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (CBT)

The program also incorporates core recovery principles, values, mindfulness, and connectedness.

The IOP can serve as a step-down level of care, helping to foster a positive transition into activities of daily living for adults upon discharging from our Residential or Partial Hospitalization programs. IOP can also be leveraged as a direct-admit level of care for adult patients requiring a higher level of care from an outpatient setting - allowing them to remain engaged with their lives.

What We Treat

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

Please call (877) 711-1878 for a FREE assessment by a Master’s level clinician.

• Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Compulsive Overeating
• Diabulimia
• Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders (OSFED)

 Most major insurances accepted:

• United Healthcare
• Aetna
• BCBS
• Cigna
• Huamana
• Kaiser Permanente
• Cofinity
• ComPsych
• Magellan Health
• Moda Health

Click here to learn more about insurance and payment

Our Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) offers some of the same intensity and structure of Residential eating disorder treatment while providing additional opportunities to practice recovery outside of the controlled eating disorder treatment environment during evenings at home or in peer-supported apartment communities.

Unlike many Partial Hospitalization Programs that only offer 6 hours of eating disorder treatment, 5 days per week, our Partial Hospitalization Program offers patients a full day of treatment, 7 days per week.

By offering a full day of adult eating disorder treatment programming every day of the week, patients are supported through all meals and snacks with ample structure and containment to achieve symptom interruption and/or weight restoration.

Programming in our Partial Hospitalization program emphasizes the development of lifelong recovery skills in a safe, structured, and supportive environment. A well-rounded curriculum offers staff-supported opportunities to practice interactions and challenges outside of treatment through many avenues, including:

• Interactive group sessions
• Transitions groups
• Process groups
• Art therapy
• Psychodrama
• Cooking groups
• Restaurant outings
• Yoga
• Addiction groups

Peer support groups

What We Treat

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
• Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Compulsive Overeating
• Diabulimia
• Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders (OSFED)

Levels of Care

• Partial Hospitalization
• Intensive Outpatient
• Virtual Intensive Outpatient

Please call (877) 711-1878 for a FREE assessment by a Master’s level clinician.

 Most major insurances accepted:

• United Healthcare
• Aetna
• BCBS
• Cigna
• Huamana
• Kaiser Permanente
• Cofinity
• ComPsych
• Magellan Health
• Moda Health

Click here to learn more about insurance and payment

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

Early Head Start Child Care Partnership is a new opportunity to support the partnering of Early Head Start Programs with Child Care Providers to expand the number of quality slots for infants and toddlers in San Antonio. Through partnership, Early Head Start grantees partner with center-based and family child care providers who agree to meet Early Head Start Program Performance Standards and Regulations and provide high-quality comprehensive, full-day, full-year services to infants and toddlers from low-income families.

The program provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services that enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of participating children. In addition, services provide young children ages birth to 36 months, with an array of comprehensive services including health, nutritional, behavioral, and family services.

Wellness Wednesdays are a big deal at St Luke. That's when people who are struggling receive much-needed medical care and other services and are treated with love.

Services include:

• Basic Medical Exams
• Sexual Health Assessments
• Overdose Prevention Education
• Substance Abuse Counseling
• Detox, needle exchange
• Risk reduction items provided

Free

Thrive’s emergency shelter is housed on the campus of Haven for Hope and provides 10 young adults with shelter for up to 6 months.

The core services at our emergency shelter include not only basic needs of food and shelter but individually tailored and youth-directed case management plans to help young adults move forward in exiting homelessness.

Thrive assists young adults with linkage to resources such as ID recovery, counseling, medical services, gender-affirming care, educational opportunities, and vocational training in a safe and supportive environment.

Our focus is to help remove barriers that young adults may encounter in seeking services and help guide them toward their next move in achieving their goals.

LGBTQ youth and young adults.

Free.

A mindfulness-centered program that supports girls to building healthy relationships, managing emotions, life stressors and helps girls develop critical skills for success.

Open for all girls in 3rd-5th grade and 6th-8th grade.

$60 for the year, with a $10 non-refundable application fee due at time of registration.

Join the Junior League of San Antonio and Girls Inc. of San Antonio for weekly sessions focused on healthy living.

Open to all girls in 3rd-5th grade.

For registration, click here.

AWC's licensed counselors, nurses, and client advocates walk alongside women in crisis by offering:

Free and confidential counseling

• Crisis pregnancy
• Sexual abuse or sexual assault
• Self esteem or relationship issues
• Anxiety, depression or emotional instability
• Coercion into commercial sex
• Counseling for couples

Free STI Testing

• AWC provides STI testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea, the two of the most prevalent STI’s in San Antonio.

Free Pregnancy Tests

• AWC offers pregnancy tests and medically accurate information about your pregnancy options. Our trained nurses and client advocates will walk alongside you throughout the process and provide unconditional support.

Free.

Four times each year, in partnership with the Christian Medical and Dental Association, we host an 8-hour Health and Wellness Day where individuals can receive free dental and medical care.

Most dental procedures are offered, from X-rays and exams to restorative procedures and oral surgery.

Medical care normally includes pain management, HIV/AIDS testing, immunizations, women's health, and health education.

Our primary target is the chronically homeless individual without care, but we also serve the situationally homeless and under-served populations as space allows.

Through its ReCAST program, WestCare San Antonio partners with local nonprofit organizations to promote community resilience and equity through programs and services that include:

• Capacity-Building Training
• Improvement in Community and Police Relations
• Healing Hubs
• Intensive Case Management
• Youth Leadership and Employment
• Re-entry Programs
• Go-Team Crisis Intervention
• Community Organizing and Neighborhood Engagement
• Drug-Free Communities

If your organization would like to partner with WestCare, call the number below.

ReCAST focuses on increasing access to resources in the Promise Zone—several ZIP Codes in San Antonio's long-neglected Eastside community.

HIV-STI testing:

• HIV testing is confidential with results in 60 seconds
• HEP C testing results in 20 minutes
• Syphilis testing is a finger prick with results in 15 minutes.
• Gonorrhea and Chlamydia testing are swabs with results in 5-7 business days.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP):

PrEP is a medication that can help prevent HIV infection. It involves taking a pill called Truvada which, if taken daily over a period of time, can prevent HIV from infecting healthy cells.

Meet with one of our doctors or another PrEP Navigator to learn whether PrEP is right for you. If it is, we can write and fill a prescription for it.

Click here to learn more.

Health Education Risk Reduction (H.E.R.R.)

AARC’s HERR program provides support and Health education and Risk Reduction through client individual and group education sessions.

Clients are provided information on HIV and HIV-Health-related issues that demonstrates the importance of medication adherence and disease management.

Condom Distribution

We provide free condoms to individuals and businesses. We also offer condom education.

We offer free delivery or shipping for all condoms and lube orders in San Antonio. Click here or call (210)589-2958 to schedule your order.

Questions about which condom is best for you? Click the Connect with a Sexual Health Specialist by clicking the Chat button at the bottom of this page Monday through Friday between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM.

Call or text 210-589-2958 to schedule your free HIV/STI TEST, PREP, NPEP, or condom delivery, and someone will contact you within 24 hrs.

AARC is one of the largest and most experienced providers of LGBT health and mental health care, supported by a culturally sensitive team working to advance the care and treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people.

Primary Care: AARC’s Health Equity Clinic (HEC) provides a safe space for licensed medical staff to conduct intakes and medical assessments while offering treatment services for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community in San Antonio, which historically one of the most medically underserved populations in South Texas. AARC contracts with LGBT and LGBT-friendly physicians and clinicians who are culturally sensitive and representative of the communities served. In addition to primary medical care, AARC Health Equity Clinic staff offer comprehensive information, referral, PrEP, HIV care and patient navigation services for LGBT patients and consumers.

AARC will utilize its LGBT clinic for health services outreach and education to LGBT organizations and the community throughout San Antonio. AARC Health Equity Clinic services are offered with respect and compassion for the diverse community we represent and serve.

HIV Specialty Care: AARC’S Health Equity Clinic offers people living with HIV a wide range of support services, including leading-edge medical care. AARC’s wrap-around care model practices a holistic approach to treatment, helping clients manage all aspects of living with HIV, through counseling, nutritional advice, and transportation support.

Nutritional Services: AARC provides home-delivered meals (Meals on Wheels) to individuals who are on home hospice, home health or who have been recently released from the hospital as well as on-site meals for those with multiple medical and social service appointments. All nutritional services are coordinated through AARC’s registered dietitian.

Pharmacy services include:

• Private consultations with staff members who can answer your questions about medications, especially HIV-drug regimens and side effects
• Free, confidential delivery in San Antonio (some restrictions apply)
• Prescription refill assistance program
• On-site assistance in English and Spanish

If you’re a client of our health center, pharmacy staff will work closely with your physician, nurse, nutritionist, case manager, and/or mental health provider to help you achieve your health care goals. (Pharmacy hours and phone: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, 210.231.0383)

Behavioral Health: Mental Health Services are provided to individuals and families who are dealing with various life stressors. These services are conducted in a group or individual setting, and provided by Licensed Professional Counselors. All behavioral health programs are overseen by Howard Rogers, M.A., AARC’s Executive Director, also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and by Dr. Robert Jimenez, AARC’s Medical Director, a psychiatrist with a history of working with individuals living with HIV.

• Spanish and bilingual services are available.
• The prescribing and monitoring of psychotropic medications to individuals with a diagnosed mental disorder and are provided by a licensed physician.
• The provision of prevention and treatment to address substance abuse problems (including alcohol, legal and illicit drugs) in an outpatient setting. Substance Abuse groups revolve around an evidence based approach to treating substance abuse and involve both group as well as individual support.

We accept:

• Ambetter
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• United Health Care
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Superior

If you are uninsured, we can help determine your eligibility for medical and drug assistance programs.

We offer comprehensive services for people living with HIV.

Case Management: Our team of case managers and community health workers offer medical and non-medical case management to help you achieve your health goals.

Early Intervention: Were you recently diagnosed with HIV or want to return to care? The ASCEND program is here to guide you through the medical care system.

Health Insurance: AARC’s health insurance program can help you continue medical care without gaps in health insurance coverage or disruption of treatment.

Behavioral Health: Mental health services are provided to individuals and families who are dealing with various life stressors. Psychiatric services are also available.

Housing Services: AARC provides housing referrals and short-term rental, mortgage, utility assistance, and housing case management for those who qualify.

Transportation Services: From doctor appointments to your counseling sessions AARC’s transportation can you get there.

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.