15 Community Resources
1. AVANCE
Address: 114 W. Vestal
San Antonio, TX. 78221
Contact: Sylvia Enriquez (210) 927-5375
2. Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio
Address: 1405 Main, Suite 222
San Antonio, TX. 78212
Contact: Carl James (210) 222-1294
3. Communities in Schools
Address: 1660 E. Commerce
San Antonio, TX. 78205
Contact: Nancy Reed (210) 520-8440 Ext 222
4. Food Bank
Address: 4311 Director Drive
San Antonio, TX. 78219
Contact: Eric Cooper (210) 431-8302
5. Habitat for Humanity
Address: 311 Probandt
San Antonio, TX. 78204
Contact: Melissa (210) 223-5203
6. Harlandale ISD Parent Education Center
Address: 901 March
San Antonio, TX. 78214
Contact: (210) 921-4440
7. Jewel C. Wietzel Center
Address : 9131 Yett, Bldg. 4
San Antonio, TX. 78221
Contact: (210) 977-1635
8. Pan American Library
Address: 1122 Pyron
San Antonio, TX. 78221
Contact: Elda Flores (210) 924-8164
9. Planned Parenthood
Address: 2346 E. Southcross
San Antonio, TX. 78223
Contact: (210) 333-5454
10. Salvation ArmyAdult Rehabilitation Center
Address: 1324 South Flores
San Antonio, TX. 78204
Contact: Gary Wilson (210) 223-6877
11. San Antonio Missions (Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo)
Address: 2202 Roosevelt
San Antonio, TX. 78210
Contact: (210) 932-1001
12. VFW Post 9186 (Veterans of Foreign War)
Address: 650 East White San Antonio, TX 78214
San Antonio, TX. 78214
Contact: (210) 532-9191
13. WIC Program (by the San Antonio Metro Health Department)
Address: 2322 Buena Vista
San Antonio, TX. 78207
Contact: (210) 225-1870
14. YMCA (Southwestern Bell)
Address: 835 W. Southcross
San Antonio, TX. 78211
Contact: (210) 924-2277
15. JOVEN Center
Address: 102 W. White
San Antonio, TX. 78204
Contact: George Alonzo (210) 924-0330
AVANCE
AVANCE strives to strengthen families of the community by preventing child abuse, child neglect and educational handicaps. AVANCE provides parent-child education programs, including a nine month program that teaches parenting skills, child development and addresses the social and emotional issues faced by at-risk mothers. They also assist with adult literacy, child development and address issues related to low income status.
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio
The Catholic Charities Archdiocese provides culturally sensitive social services to all those in need, regardless of race, religion, or socioeconomic status. They provide immigration refugee programs, crisis intervention programs, adolescent pregnancy programs, catholic consultation services, and a program for foster grandparents. They also work with the retired seniors and take part in the Parents as Teachers Program.
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Communities in Schools
Communities in Schools provides immediate accessible services to young people and their families facing obstacles that interfere with their personal and academic success. The program currently implements stay in school and pre-college programs in 46 schools in seven Bexar county school districts. They provide counseling and supportive guidance, health and social service referrals, academic enhancement, educational enrichment, career awarness and work hard to encourage parental involvment.
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Food Bank
The San Antonio Food Bank supports non-profit food pantries and on-site feed locations in the community. They also provide referral services to individuals or agencies. They provide food for pantries, offer application assistance for Medicaid, TANF, and food stamps. They also give referrals to other community agencies that might help and provide USDA commodities.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity helps low income families build homes. Those who can’t afford to apply for a home can seek assistance through them. With thier assistance families can provide stability for their children. With their assistance Habitat can improve a families health, physical safety and security. It is also known to increase educational and job prospects.
Harlandale ISD Parent Education Center
The Harlandale Parent Education Center offers the community adult education and awareness programs. They provide adult basic education GED classes, and ESL classes. They also provide a lending library and gardening classes.
Jewel C. Wietzel Center
Provides services to severely handicapped children. These are often children born handicapped, but the center also accomadates those who became handicapped due to injury or other circumstances. The center offers various types of services ranging from educational learning to physical therapy.class=Section4>
Joven
Joven strives to create a healthy community where youth and their families can experience healing and empowerment. They provide life skills education, anger managment training, tutoring, crisis interventioin, and inidvidual family counseling. They also offer a year round sports program, after school programs, and summer programs.
Pan American Library
The Pan American Library provides a welcoming atmosphere full of resources for reading and learning. The library provides 17 computers for public use, books, videos, audio cassesttes, and magazines for checkout. They also hold story time sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for preschoolers. A summer reading club also convenes at this library’s location.
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is an organization committed to the sexual and reproductive health of all people. They provide birth control, pregnancy testing, emergency contraception, and testing and treatment for STD’s. They also provide assistance to those going through menopause and assist with refferals for adoption and parental care.
Salvation ArmyAdult Rehabilitation Center
The Salvation Army Rehab Center cares for those withe alcohol or drug related problems. They offer counseling, work therapy and spiritual guidance to the community. They also have a local store that benefits their organization that sales cheap second hand items to the community.
San Antonio Missions (Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo)
The San Antonio Missions National Park Service provides historical information surrounding the Missions and is one of San Antonio’s popular tourist destinations. The mission churches remain active today. The Missions provide tours and orientation talks to school groups. They also have outreach programs and participate with other organizations.
VFW Post 9186 (Veterans of Foreign War)
VFW is an American organization whose members are current or former members of the U.S. armed forces. This organization assumes the responsibilities of lobbying congress for better veterans’ health care benefits. They also volunteer to assist veterans with their VA disability claims. The organization provides service to the community and participates in Operation Uplink, which provides free phone cards to overseas service members.
WIC Program (by the San Antonio Metro Health Department)
The WIC program provides nutritional assistance to women during the critical stages of fetal and early childhood development. They provide nutrition information to expecting mothers, vouchers for food, breast feeding support and referrals to other social services.
YMCA (Southwestern Bell)
The mission of the YMCA is to promote healthy mind, body and spirit. They provide afterschool programs for children, daycare services, sports for the youth, and youth leadership development.
25 Multicultural Resources
Books
Alvarez, J. (2005). How the Garcia girls lost their accents. Middlesex: Plume Publishing.
Auaya, R. (1991). Bless Me Ultima. New York: Grand Central Publishing.
Bunting, E. (1996). Going home.New York : Harper Collins Publishing.
Chavarria-Chairez, B. (2000). Magda’s tortillas. Houston, Texas: Arte Publico Press.
Cisneros, S. (1991). The house on Mango Street. Houston: Vintage Press.
De Zavala, A. (1996). History and legends of the Alamo and other missions in and around San Antonio. San Antonio: Arte Publico Press.
Fisher, M. (2001). Rosita’s bridge. San Antonio, Tex. : Maverick Pub. Co.
Merrell, F. (2003). The Mexicans: a sense of culture. Boulder: Westview Press.
Miller, C. (2004). Deep in the heart of San Antonio: Land and life in south Texas. San Antonio: Trinity University Press.
Nikola-Lisa, W. (2004). My teacher can teach . . . anyone!. New York: Lee and Low Books.
Other
American Library Association. (2000, May). Multicultural Cinderella Stories. Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.ala.org/ala/booklinksbucket/multicultural.htm.
DiversityStore.com. (2007). Multicultural education. Retrieve October 24, 2007, from http://www.diversity.store.net/ds/index.cfm.
Garcia, S. (2005, August 07). Multicultural websites: diversity and ethnic studies. Retrieved October, 24, 2007, from http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/multicul.htm.
Gorski, P. (2007). Multicultural pavilion. Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/.
Jefferson County Educators. (2007). Multicultrual lesson plans. Retrieved October 22, 2007, from http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/passport/lessonplan/lessonindex.htm.
Smith, R. (1993). Celebrating cultural diversity thruogh children’s literature. Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://multicultrualchildrenslit.com/.
Multicultural Kid Inc. (2007). Multicultural kid incorporated. Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.multiculturalkids.com/shop/home.php.
Multicultrual Review. (2007). Multicultural review. Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.mcreview.com/.
National Multicultural Institute. Leading with diversity. Retrieved October 24, 2007, from http://www.nmci.org/
Palo Alto College (2006, August 21). El pueblo community development project and harlandale idependent school district. Retrieved October 7, 2007, from http://www.harlandale.k12.tx.us/co mmunity_page/community_ed/parent_ed/MyPACC/index.h
