Personalized Career & Training Assistance for Justice-Involved Clients.

Goodwill Reentry Services understands individuals' unique challenges when reentering into society after incarceration, from reconnecting with family to finding employment.

Our staff provides one-on-one career coaching with a focus on:

• Identifying your career interests.
• Developing your resume.
• Practicing interview skills.
• Completing online job applications.
• Connecting to employers or training programs.

Additionally, individuals can enroll in training programs, which include construction trades, warehousing, and logistics.

Requirements:

• At least18 years old
• Have a Valid ID
• Eligible to work in the United States
• Released from prison within the last two years
• Currently on Parole, Probation, or Supervised Release
• Can work full-time

If you are interested in finding out more, send an email to Reentry Services at [email protected].

The Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program aims to help residents achieve economic independence in five years.

The self-paced, voluntary program helps Public Housing residents and Housing Choice Voucher Program participants set goals to achieve in five years and earn an escrow check following program completion.

During the program, participants will receive or have access to:

• One-on-One Case Management
• Referral Services
• Money Management Classes
• Education and Training
• Career Counseling
• Career Exploration
• Job Search
• Resume Writing
• Interviewing Skills
• Parenting Skills
• Workshops
• Communication Skills

Schedule a one-hour session to enhance your job search, resume, and interviewing skills with Dress for Success Job Coach. 

Click here to fill out client referral form, availability is limited, so register now. 

Clients have access to more than 300 on-line courses, at no charge, to expand or reinforce their skills sets. They may also test and receive certificates to validate their skills for prospective employers.

The Suiting Program provides training in professional demeanor and attire to prepare for an employment interview. Once clients secure a job, they are invited for employment suiting, with additional education in continuity of professional appearance and attitude, and training in economically extending their wardrobes.

To book an appointment, click here and complete form. Once youve submitted, please expect a call from us to finalize the scheduling, 

Free.

Ready to Work is an educational and job placement program to help thousands of San Antonians improve their quality of life.

Your personal Ready to Work coach will help you with every step of the process, from understanding your specific situation, coaching you through career and education planning, enrolling and paying for your classes, increasing your confidence and soft skills, updating your resume, preparing you for interviews, connecting you to new job opportunities, and helping you thrive in your job.

Ready to Work will:

• Guide you through the process.
• Connect you with resources like childcare and transportation so nothing can stand in your way
• Develop a personalized career and training plan just for you.
• Enroll you in courses and work-based learning opportunities that match the right field for you.
• Cover the cost of approved courses (up to a cap.
• Prepare you for job interviews.
• Help you find and keep the job you love.

Our complete list of programs can be found here.

Our complete list of employers can be found here.

SA: Ready to Work is open to thousands of San Antonio residents who are: 

• At least 18 years old.
• Permitted to work in the US. 
• A resident of the City of San Antonio.
• Income less than 250% of federal poverty guidelines ($36,450 for an individual or $75,000 for a household of four.
• Willing to take assessments relating to barriers, academics, skills aptitude, and workplace readiness.
• Committed to finishing the program.

NOTE: Residents of municipalities within San Antonio (Balcones Heights, Leon Valley, Castle Hills, etc.) are not eligible. If you aren't sure, click here and type your street address. If the map shows your address is in District 0, you do not live within San Antonio City limits and are ineligible for this program.

To apply, visit this or another Ready to Work Partner Agency. You can also call 3-1-1 or click here to register online.

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.

None.

The Education and Employment Program is a training program designed to assist residents of public housing with personal and technical job skills. This training helps qualified residents in pursuing careers in areas such as maintenance trades, computer technician, health-related occupations and office administration.

The program includes the following:

• Life Skills and Job Readiness Classes
• Vocational Training
• GED and Continuing Education
• On-the-Job Training

Available Services

• Anger Management Classes
• Battering Intervention & Prevention Program (BIPP)
• Cite & Release
• Food, Hygiene, and Clothing
• GED Placement Testing and Tutoring
• Government Benefits Enrollment
• ID Recovery
• Interview Preparation and Job Search Assistance
• Job Readiness and Resume Writing
• Job Training Program
• Mental Health Services
• Moral Reconation Therapy (Pre-MRT & MRT)
• Other Specialized Classes
• Spiritual Guidance and Networking
• Substance Abuse Services
• Utility Assistance

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.

The Employment team assists in attaining and sustaining competitive integrated employment in the community to include:

• résumé building
• interviewing skills
• job placement
• job coaching

Bexar County residents with disabilities.

The Gang Rehabilitation Ending Affiliation Ties (G.R.E.A.T.) program focuses on outreach by trusted community outreach workers who serve as mentors and positive role models for youth at risk of recruitment into a gang.

Core program services include:

• Tutoring
• Continuing Education
• Navigation
• Employment Training
• Housing Assistance
• Food Support

Our Good Careers Specialists are proud and dedicated to serving our veterans and their families as they transition into the civilian workplace. We will help you remove employment barriers with specialized career assistance. Our programs are individualized and tailored to meet your unique needs and goals.

The breadth of career services offered at no cost to transitioning service members, veterans and their families include:

• Employer Connection
• Community Partner Network
• Certification Training
• Financial Planning
• Career Coaching
• Resume Development
• Job Search Assistance
• Interview Strategies
• Individualized Career Assessment

This program serves Veterans and their families, regardless of their affiliation with St Philip's College.

Are you ready to leave the past behind and start over? For those who want to start a new life, a better life, Changin' Lives is here to offer resources, to listen, and to let you know that you are not alone. We work through your challenges to help you reach your goals.

We want to help you become a self-sufficient, successful, productive citizen of our community by connecting you with felony-friendly employers, affordable housing resources, medical and social services referrals, mentoring, and one-on-one client case management.

By appointment only. Please call during business hours to schedule an appointment.

Free

The Training for Job Success program is designed to support income-eligible residents as they prepare for better employment that can lead their families to self-sufficiency.

Following are some of the resources and services available through the Training for Job Success Program:

• Job readiness activities such as assistance with résumé writing, interviewing skills and job leads
• Full-tuition scholarship opportunities for Alamo Colleges Demand Occupations Training Programs
• Textbooks, supplies and uniforms required for Demand Occupations Training Programs
• One-on-One career coaching, case management services, and counseling services
• Assistance with utilities and rent
• Connection to other community resources

Individuals and families in the San Antonio/ Bexar County community who meet income criteria upon enrollment into the program.

Call 210-207-5929 to begin the application process.

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Divine Women hosts various events, including:

• Workshops
• Support groups
• Webinars
• Social gatherings

Our programs cover topic related to, personal growth, mental health, and empowerment.

Click here to learn more and to join. 

There is no cost to attending our program. However, there might be small fees for meals or special events.

Families and individuals living in CHR affordable housing communities have access to supportive social services such as:

• Homework help and tutoring
• After-school snacks and summer lunches
• Adult education programs
• ESL assistance
• Financial literacy programs
• Job readiness preparation
• And more

Free for residents of San Juan Square 2.

Families and individuals living in CHR affordable housing communities have access to supportive social services such as:

• Homework help and tutoring
• After-school snacks and summer lunches
• Adult education programs
• ESL assistance
• Financial literacy programs
• Job readiness preparation
• And more

Free for residents of San Juan Square 1.

The NXT Level Youth Opportunity Center, managed by the City's Department of Human Services in coordination with Goodwill and Communities in Schools, assists young adults (16-24) who are disengaged with the steps necessary to return to school or find a job related to their interests.

NXT Level is a City of San Antonio program partnered with Communities in Schools (CIS) and Goodwill Industries. The program serves young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are disconnected from education, work, and major societal support systems.

We are committed to providing a safe space where every 16- —to 24-year-old can achieve their personal, educational, and/or career goals.

We connect each participant with a life and education/career coach. Coaches offer ongoing case management, counseling, life skills, and referrals to community partners with demonstrated success.

Anyone between the ages of 16-24 who resides in San Antonio qualifies for the services and can either schedule an appointment or walk in to meet with a NXT Level coach.

Free

Our Racial Justice Education and Advocacy program’s primary goal is to support our community by providing the following services and products.

Comprehensive and customizable training and summits addressing the barriers faced by women of color: 

• Providing advocacy and education to all community members.

• Racial Justice Virtual Library is an online, easily accessible compilation of articles, books, and podcasts with the purpose of educating and supporting community members who are interested in learning more about racial justice and advocacy.

• Racial Justice Toolkit and consultation is designed to assist professionals in successfully navigating multicultural settings and interactions in the workplace.

• Community collaborations focused on supporting communities of color and assisting in bringing about awareness and barriers.

The Women's Live and Learn Center will address the holistic needs of women ages 18-25 years old, with up to four years of housing, non-parenting and parenting. If parenting, up to 2 children under the age of 8. The program is designed to help women Reconnect, Restore, and Empower via the combination of onsite housing and supportive services rooted in the YWCA mission.

Click here to view The Women's Live and Learn Admission Guide. 

Services:

• Trauma-informed case management.

• Workforce training

• Navigation to post-secondary education or degree programs

• Healthy, wellness, and mental health.

• Early childhood education

• Financial literacy and homeownership training.

Families and individuals living in CHR affordable housing communities have access to supportive social services such as:

• Homework help and tutoring
• After-school snacks and summer lunches
• Adult education programs
• ESL assistance
• Financial literacy programs
• Job readiness preparation
• And more

Free for residents of Costa Almadena.

Workforce Solutions Alamo (WSA) Youth Empowerment Services (YES!) offers no-cost services to eligible youth between the ages of 16-24 to gain the necessary education, training, and skills to enter the workforce and meet employer needs.

Services offered:

• Tutoring, study skills, training, instruction, and dropout prevention.
• Alternative secondary school services or dropout recovery services.
• Paid and Unpaid Work Experience
• Occupational Skills Training
• Education is offered concurrently with workforce preparation and training for a specific occupation.
• Leadership Development Opportunities
• Support Services, Financial Support, incentives.
• Mentoring
• Follow-up services
• Guidance and Counseling
• Financial Literacy Education
• Entrepreneurial (Owning a Business) Training
• Labor Market information
• Post-secondary Preparation and Transition Activities.

Click here to learn more and apply. 

Workforce Solutions Alamo (WSA) Youth Empowerment Services (YES!) offers no-cost services to eligible youth between the ages of 16-24 to gain the necessary education, training, and skills to enter the workforce and meet employer needs.

Services offered:

• Tutoring, study skills, training, instruction, and dropout prevention.
• Alternative secondary school services or dropout recovery services.
• Paid and Unpaid Work Experience.
• Occupational Skills Training
• Education is offered concurrently with workforce preparation and training for a specific occupation.
• Leadership Development Opportunities
• Support Services, Financial Support, incentives
• Mentoring
• Follow-up services
• Guidance and Counseling
• Financial Literacy Education
• Entrepreneurial (Owning a Business) Training
• Labor Market information
• Post-secondary Preparation and Transition Activities.

Click here to learn more and apply. 

Services are based on eligibility.

The TurningPoint Transitional Living program helps youth who have aged out of foster care and other homeless youth by providing a safe place to live, learn, and become productive, empowered members of our community.

The program includes:

• Professional case management
• Weekly counseling
• Job and life skills training
• Educational assistance
• Resource referrals

Call for more information.

Youth 18-24 years old

The Thread of Justice is an alternative model for social, environmental and economic justice that provides a clean and safe job environment, a living wage, nurtures leadership development and business opportunities for displaced garment workers and elderly women from the local area.

Merchandise from the San Antonio Cooperative and our sister organization in Chiapas are available in our Southside location.

Free.

Our jobs training program is designed to provide skills training to individuals looking to improve for a new job opportunity and a way to grow and increase their educational assets.

Some of the training sessions are in:

• Resume building
• Interviewing
• Customer service
• Construction certifications
• Computer literacy

We also work hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs—people who can’t find work but are interested and have what it takes to start a small business.

This program is designed to: 

• Empower San Antonians with a disability to be employed.
• Connect recent college graduates and older adults, who have no disability but can't find work, with employers through work readiness partnerships and real job opportunities. 

Target Population: 18 years of age and over.

• Computer Skills Classes
• Free Computer Use

Free material assistance for college students or clients in an active job search program.

Must be 18-24 years old and show proof of college or program enrollment.

Free

Families and individuals living in CHR affordable housing communities have access to supportive social services such as:

• Homework help and tutoring
• After-school snacks and summer lunches
• Adult education programs
• ESL assistance
• Financial literacy programs
• Job readiness preparation
• And more

The San Antonio Clubhouse, form foundation's flagship program, is a transformative member-driven community for people experiencing mental illness, based on an international, proven model with identified standards for excellence.

Here you are not a patient; you are a unique and important member of our Community with gifts and talents to share with the world. We will help you use those talents and learn new skills to reach your full potential. 

What you can get from SA Clubhouse:

• A work-ordered day in which the talents and abilities of members are recognized and utilized within the Clubhouse.
• Opportunities to obtain paid employment in the local labor market through a Clubhouse-created Transitional Employment Program. In addition, members participate in Clubhouse-supported and independent programs.
• Access to crisis intervention services when needed.
• Assistance in securing and sustaining safe, decent, and affordable housing.

How you can help our Community:

• Participation in consensus-based decision-making regarding all important matters relating to the running of the Clubhouse.
• Assisting other members with community-based educational resources, work, and going back to school or getting their GED.
• Planning of evening/weekend social and recreational events.
• Learning new technologies to assist you and other members in your daily lives.

Click here to schedule a tour. While on tour, you will be able to discuss membership, resources, and other opportunities at the San Antonio Clubhouse.

Free

• Computer Skills Classes

The NXT Level Youth Opportunity Center, managed by the City's Department of Human Services in coordination with Goodwill and Communities in Schools, assists young adults (16-24) disengaged youth with the steps necessary to go back to school or find a job related to their interest

NXT Level is a City of San Antonio program partnered with Communities in Schools (CIS) and Goodwill Industries. The program serves young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are disconnected from education, work, and major societal support systems.

We are committed to providing a safe space where every 16 to 24-year-olds achieves their personal, educational, and/or career goals.

We connect each participant with a life and education/career coach. Coaches offer ongoing case management, counseling, life skills, and referrals to community partners with demonstrated success.

Anyone between the ages of 16-24 who resides in San Antonio qualifies for the services and can either schedule an appointment or walk in to meet with a NXT Level coach.

Free