Mentoring near
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 Longfellow Middle School.
Monday: 7:30 AM - 1:50 PM |
Tuesday: 7:30 AM - 1:50 PM |
Wednesday: 7:30 AM - 1:50 PM |
Thursday: 7:30 AM - 1:50 PM |
Friday: 7:30 AM - 1:50 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
Grades 3-5:
Girls on the Run inspires girls of all abilities to recognize their individual strengths, while building a sense of connection in a team setting. At the end of the season, the team completes a 5K together, which provides a tangible sense of accomplishment and sets a confident mindset into motion.
Monday: CLOSED |
Tuesday: 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM |
Wednesday: CLOSED |
Thursday: CLOSED |
Friday: CLOSED |
Saturday: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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 Poe Middle School.
Monday: 8:00 AM - 3:50 PM |
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 3:50 PM |
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 3:50 PM |
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 3:50 PM |
Friday: 8:00 AM - 3:50 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
Our Esperanza Senior Citizens program exists to empower, promote, and enhance health and wellness to our senior adults by providing educational and accessible resources.
Through our mentoring program, we provide:
- Mentoring through our comprehensive mentorship program
- Food through our Participant Choice Food Pantry and the San Antonio Food Bank's Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
- Financial literacy through our Journey to Success program
- Quality of life services through our partner agencies
Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Thursday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Friday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
The SA Hope Center program connects individuals and families with Social Workers, whom we call Mentors, to work together and address the root cause(s) of chronic poverty.
Mentors team with the program participants to create personalized goals that increase physical, emotional, and spiritual health by focusing on each person's unique strengths.
When empowering each individual through our programs, they begin positive steps towards achieving their goals of financial literacy, strengthening the family unit, career readiness, adult education, and overall wellness.
SA Hope Center Enrollment Requirements:
- Proof of family size (birth certificate, picture IDs, or last year’s tax forms)
- Proof of Income (pay stubs or award letters)
- One-hour Orientation class (information about all programs)
- One-hour Financial Literacy class (money management needs vs. wants, budgeting, emergency funds, paying off debt, creating savings, etc.)
Monday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Thursday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Friday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
Raindrop Youth Development Center is an educational center that serves the underprivileged youth in San Antonio. It promotes the younger generation’s integration, development, and contribution to the social life in the US. The mission of the Raindrop Youth Development Center is to contribute to social, academic, and cultural development of the community through educational programs so as to build strong individuals, strong families, and strong communities. The vision of Raindrop Youth Development Center is socially, culturally, academically advanced.
Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
Charles Roundtree Bloom Project aims to create a space of communal healing for the youth of incarcerated parents by:
- facilitating healing-centered outdoor experiences (meditative hikes, camping, community gardening, and healing circles).
- cultivate communal caring.
- offering a culturally relevant, place-based environmental education.
- introducing youth to environmental careers.
- supporting youth in achieving their goals.
- helping youth develop a sense of agency.
Case Management
Following the ACT model, we have case management teams that provide services to all of the clients assigned to the team. Each client has multiple case managers working with them on a weekly rotation.
Our clients benefit by having multiple direct care staff providing input and strategies to best assist them reach their goals. Our clients have continuity of care when a case manager may be absent due to illness or vacation, as well as moving to a different position and no longer providing case management services. Each team has a Team Leader who coordinates the recovery and treatment plan of each client with the case managers and coordinates with the other community providers the client is utilizing for services.
Psychiatrist
We have agreements with psychiatrists to see clients who are receiving services from True MHS. We do not provide psychiatric services directly through True MHS. Our agreements with psychiatrists enable us to schedule an initial appointment within a few days of intake to our case management services, rather than clients waiting several months for an initial appointment.
This is extremely beneficial for our new clients who begin our services following an inpatient hospital admission. The client can be seen within 7 days after their discharge date for their follow-up psychiatric appointment. Then the client will be scheduled with the psychiatrist for monthly follow-up appointments. If a client has an outpatient psychiatrist that they have a relationship with and want to continue their services, we are still able to provide case management services and the client does not need to change doctors.
To help our clients achieve success, our case managers:
- Coordinate the transition from the hospital after discharge to the client’s home
- Teach coping strategies for experienced symptoms
- Teach awareness of triggers for experienced symptoms
- Teach coping strategies to address triggers
- Educate about the benefits of taking medications
- Assist and educate clients to complete doctor appointments
- Assist and educate clients to fill prescriptions at pharmacies
- Substance abuse education and assistance with rehabilitation
- Teach interpersonal and social skills
- Help secure safe housing
- Teach budgeting and money management skills
- Educate about community resources and how to access them
- Assist clients access resources for employment
- Assist clients access resources for education
- And teach our clients anything else they need for their recovery and success
In addition to case managers meeting directly with clients in the community, we provide 24-hour crisis support to assist our clients after business hours.
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 Rhodes Middle School.
Monday: 8:40 AM - 4:00 PM |
Tuesday: 8:40 AM - 4:00 PM |
Wednesday: 8:40 AM - 4:00 PM |
Thursday: 8:40 AM - 4:00 PM |
Friday: 8:40 AM - 4:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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 Colonial Hills Elementary School.
Monday: 8:00 AM - 3:15 PM |
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 3:15 PM |
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 3:15 PM |
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 3:15 PM |
Friday: 8:00 AM - 3:15 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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 Baskin Elementary.
Monday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Tuesday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Wednesday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Thursday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Friday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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 Memorial High School.
Monday: 8:15 AM - 4:30 PM |
Tuesday: 8:15 AM - 4:30 PM |
Wednesday: 8:15 AM - 4:30 PM |
Thursday: 8:15 AM - 4:30 PM |
Friday: 8:15 AM - 4:30 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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 Green Elementary.
Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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 Joel C Harris Middle 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 Carvajal Elementary School.
Monday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Tuesday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Wednesday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Thursday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Friday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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 Woodlawn Hills Elementary.
Monday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Tuesday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Wednesday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Thursday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Friday: 8:05 AM - 3:20 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
Youth often suffer from an absence of positive role models. Youth engage in lessons by the Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets to promote important life skills and personal assets. Examples of personal assets include: honesty, integrity, achievement, motivation, school engagement, responsibility, planning and decision-making, sense of purpose, etc.
Asset Building is a program of Good Sam's Youth Development Services (YDS), whose goal is to help young people acquire the life and academic skills necessary for personal success.
YDS exposes youth to new experiences, provides safe spaces to learn, and helps develop a sense of purpose by providing structured, age-appropriate services through five pillars:
- Support Educational Achievement
- Encourage Healthy Decisions
- Explore College and Career Pathways
- Develop Leaders
- Engage Families
For more information about Asset Building,
please call 210-434-5531 or email [email protected].
Ready to Work is unprecedented. No other city in the nation is supporting its residents like we are. With over $110 million in tuition assistance, hundreds of employers, training providers and colleges, community organizations and workforce agencies, we are in it together, for you.
Ready to Work makes continuing your education and finding a quality job easier for you. 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.
Your journey begins with step one – Register online, call 3-1-1, or visit a Ready To Work Partner Agency.
Our full list of programs can be found here.
Our full list of employers can be found here.
Our Partner Agency, YWCA San Antonio, provides connects San Antonians with no-cost, flexible pathways so they can advance their education and launch in-demand careers. Eligibility Requirements can be found here.
Services include:
- Intake
- Assessment
- Case Management
- Referrals for Training
Monday: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
Tuesday: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
Wednesday: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
Thursday: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
Friday: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
Members of the Collegiate 100 campus-based student organization also assist the local 100 Black Men as appropriate, with its programmatic initiatives that support the development of social, emotional, and educational needs of youth who need positive role models in the communities in which they live.
Ages 8-18.
Call or go to office for information.
Monday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Thursday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Friday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
The IT Apprenticeships program is pre-apprentice training that offers entry-level skills to participants seeking to enter an IT or similar career pathway.
Participants may choose the Google Career Certificate program or from multiple IT certification pathways such as CompTIA F+, A+, Network+, and Security+ that may lead to cyber certifications or other advanced IT training opportunities.
Click here to Donate.
Monday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Thursday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Friday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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The Volunteer program is closed at this time. Please check back soon.
Members of the 100 Black Men of San Antonio, Inc. are men ages 21+, who can pass a detailed criminal background investigation, and are committed to helping the youth of our community by utilizing their talents and volunteering their time. All members wanting be a mentor must complete the 100 Black Men of America Online Mentor Training. Annual dues and 75% attendance to general meetings are requirements to be a "member in good standing."
Benefits of membership include:
- The opportunity to positively impact the live of youth through the sharing of your time, talent and resources.
- Ability to mentor a young person in their development, preparation and choices.
- Helping a program or committee in the achievement of desired outcomes.
- Develop a sense of “giving back”
- Accomplish Self-improvement
- Fellowship with peers
- Individual recognition
- An opportunity to be a leader in your community
New members must completely fill out all portions of the application and the background investigation.
For more information please call the number below.
Monday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Thursday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
Friday: 9:00 AM - |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
YouthBuild San Antonio is a community-based pre-apprenticeship program that provides job training and educational opportunities.
Youth learn vocational skills in construction, as well as in other in-demand industries, including health care.
Youth also provide community service through the required construction or rehabilitation of affordable housing for low-income or homeless families in their own neighborhoods.
Youth split their time between the vocational training work site and the classroom, where they earn their high school diploma, learn to be community leaders, and prepare for post-secondary training opportunities, including college, apprenticeships, and employment.
YouthBuild San Antonio includes significant support systems, such as mentoring, follow-up education, employment, and personal counseling services; additionally, participants participate in community service and civic engagement projects.
At-risk youth ages 16-24 who have previously dropped out of high school.
Monday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 AM |
Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 AM |
Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 AM |
Thursday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 AM |
Friday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 AM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
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 King Elementary.
Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Saturday: CLOSED |
Sunday: CLOSED |
The San Antonio Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women is excited to offer mentoring sessions to girls ages 10-18.
Topics include such things as:
- Educational activities with a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) focus
- Learning to cultivate a healthy lifestyle with knowledge and attention to nutrition and physical and mental fitness
- Enriching oneself through personal development and financial literacy
- Navigating success in life with planning and goal setting
- The value of choosing Excellence
This program is for girls 10-18 years old.
Call for the latest information on this program.
Free.
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 Storm Elementary.
Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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The SBA created the 504 loan program to help entrepreneurs finance commercial real estate and equipment for their businesses. Businesses use these loans to finance fixed asset acquisitions such as:
- Purchases of existing buildings
- Land purchases and improvements
- New facility construction
- Existing facility modernizations,
renovations, and conversions - Long-term machinery purchases
- Some furniture and fixtures
Businesses in operation for 2 or more years can also use 504 loans to refinance existing debt that meets the following criteria:
- A non-federal loan
- Outstanding for 2 or more years
- Current on all payments for the last 12 months
- It was used originally (85% or more) to finance eligible 504 uses (see above)
The graph to the right shows how LiftFund partners with a participating lender (typically a bank) to finance part of the project. Most projects require a 50-40-10 (Bank Loan-SBA/CDC-Owner) split. However, businesses and/or projects considered “special purpose” require an additional 10% from the owner.
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Finding traditional business loans isn’t easy. That’s especially true if you’re a startup, in a risky business industry or both.
You need capital that can support you — a loan that can help you grow your business so you can prove your success and qualify for a bank loan. If this describes you, the SBA 7A Community Advantage loan program may be the right fit. We’re a partner with SBA and the program funds startups and existing businesses, startup costs, operating expenses, business acquisition, refinancing business debt, tenant improvements, working capital, equipment purchases and more.
Click here to apply for SBA 7A Community Advantage loan.
Terms: 7-10 year term; 25 year term for real estate; Prime + (2.75% to 6%); Variable rate (based on Wall Street)
- Available for start-up and existing businesses;
- SBA guarantee allows us to provide financing;
- Complimentary consultation;
- No prepayment penalties;
- Cash flow must be sufficient for payments;
- Owner Injection: 20% startups, 20% business acquisitions;
- Projections reviewed for businesses affected by COVID19;
LiftFund offers the Community Advantage loan to small businesses located in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas
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When you apply for a small business loan through LiftFund, a team member will review your information and documents to find a LiftFund product that fits your business goals and budget. We provide loans for:
- Commercial Real Estate Purchases
- Equipment
- Inventory
- Leasehold Improvements
- Supplies
- Vehicles
- Working Capital
Whether you have limited credit, collateral, or experience, our team will work with you to provide a loan that allows you to build your credit and improve your finances.
Click here and answer a few questions to find out if you're ready to apply for a loan.
Click here to apply for a loan.
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We’re here to help you strengthen your business.
Our special programs, in collaboration with our generous partners, are designed to provide you access to flexible funding and special rates.
Click here to learn more about our special funding options and apply today!
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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.
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