Led by the Knights of Columbus, some members of the Catholic parishes in New Braunfels have united for this active Prison Ministry. These dedicated members of Christ's family make weekly visits to inmates in our jails and prisons to bring the word of God to them.

Members of this ministry meet with all inmates, regardless of their religious affiliation, who are interested in learning more about God's love and mercy for them.

You can be a very important part of this ministry by remembering in your prayers all who are a part of this team and all inmates who are taking advantage of this opportunity to draw nearer to our Lord and follow His ways.

There are additional ways to be involved in this ministry. The team welcomes prayer cards, rosaries, and Bibles. All of these items are distributed to those who attend the services.

To learn more, contact Ken Bates (830)-708-8000

Both the Intensive Counseling Program and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)  can serve Teens, Adults, and Youth with almost any emotional, behavioral, or mental health stressors.

There are a wide variety of concerns that might cause you to notice the need for therapy, such as:

• anxiety
• depression
• sleep disturbances, nightmares
• worry, panic attacks
• PTSD
• spiritual distress
• anger, defiance, mood swings
• Addictions such as alcohol/drug abuse, sexual addictions, porn addictions, gambling addictions
• exploitative or manipulative behavior
• social/relational difficulties
• work instability
• and more

In-person & online

Spanish speaking available

No insurance accepted

$125 per session

$85 sliding scale

The Criminal Justice Ministry ministers to the incarcerated, mentors parolees, and aids those with drug addiction.

Assistance is offered to family members.

Catholic teaching through Bible study, Catechism, and correspondence programs is offered to those in need.

Call the church at 830-379-1796 for more information.

Our vision is to reach those who feel lost by creating an opportunity for hope through a safe and sober living environment.

Our commitment is to assist our residents in achieving their goals. 

Our program provides a 3-phase system for establishing suitable living conditions.

We are here to enhance and inspire Men who are heavily laden by:

• Addiction
• Homelessness
• Reentry after incarceration
• Mental Illness

Outreach Ministry

Reaching Prisoners for Jesus Christ

On the Block has a heart and passion for the incarcerated. We find great joy and a privilege to be allowed to go into the prison units and have worship services, one-on-one interactions, baptisms, and family day events with the inmates.

We also partner with a local radio station in the Houston area, which allows us to bring a word of encouragement to the inmates. Inmates look forward to tuning in every Sunday night.

Removing Barriers Together

Our inclusive hiring strategy offers fair and equitable employment opportunities.

The MOD Opportunity Network (MOD O.N.) connects community nonprofits across the country to support job seekers with barriers, like:

• justice involvement individuals
• individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities

Removing Barriers Together

Our inclusive hiring strategy offers fair and equitable employment opportunities.

The MOD Opportunity Network (MOD O.N.) connects community nonprofits across the country to support job seekers with barriers, like:

• justice involvement individuals
• individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities

Course participants will gain a thorough understanding of the emotion of anger as it relates to learned behavior, brain chemistry, and subconscious imagery. Topics include: identifying and defining negative emotions, sources of anger, mind-brain connections, anger logs, addiction cycles, wrong strategies, methods for controlling anger, relationship types, the importance of a higher power, insightful concepts, and tools for overcoming negative anger.

Life Skills for Living's Anger Management class is Bexar County Court-approved.

Spanish classes by appointment only via Zoom

Anger Management
Introductory Class/$90.00

One-on-One Session
Six Week Course $85.00

One-on-One Session
Four Week Course $100.00

Everyone will experience conflicts in their life. The word "conflict" will usually create negative thoughts. However, conflict can be positive as well as negative. Negative conflicts are disruptive, destructive, and require a lot of energy. Positive conflicts can be a learning tool from which individuals can learn, grow, and become closer in their relationship.

Our staff includes certified conflict resolution specialists to help resolve and mediate disputes that become undesirable conflicts.

Spanish classes by appointment only via Zoom

Prepare/Enrich is a wonderful program designed to help people in any kind of relationship. Over the last three decades, over 2.5 million couples have benefited from the Prepare/Enrich Program. The program is designed to explore strength and growth areas, strengthen communication skills, and develop a more balanced relationship. The ultimate goal of the program is to help those in relationships to understand personality differences and maximize teamwork.

We live in a complicated and fast-moving society. Stress can affect other emotions such as negative anger. Stress can be defined as a mismatch between an individual’s coping skills and the demands of their life.

The Life Skills for Living Program centers on altering a person’s usual negative response to stress to a new altered response. This altered response involves creating a process to change our techniques in the way we think, feel, and act during stressful periods that we all experience.

Removing Barriers Together

Our inclusive hiring strategy offers fair and equitable employment opportunities.

The MOD Opportunity Network (MOD O.N.) connects community nonprofits across the country to support job seekers with barriers, like:

• justice involvement individuals
• individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities

Our company was established with the primary goal of helping people who are suffering from addiction, mental health issues, and addictive behaviors; through our education, counseling and intervention programs.

We understand first hand, the hurdles, struggles, and difficulties the individual in recovery and their family may face. Our programs serve as resources to help move beyond blame, shame and guilt and towards a path of positive change so the individual can realize their true potential.

We offer:

• Individual Counseling
• Group Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Telehealth
• Case Management
• Peer Support Groups
• Intervention Services

Kolbe Prison Ministries of San Antonio (KPM SA) is a regional branch of the Texas-wide Kolbe Prison Ministries (KPM) Catholic organization (sometimes referred to as ‘Kolbe Missions’) founded several years ago in Fredericksburg. KPM SA ministers to incarcerated men and women in five Texas State prisons and jails near San Antonio, and other detention facilities in the Archdiocese of San Antonio.

We’ve found that offenders have a much greater chance of staying out of prison and making lasting changes in their lives if we help them develop a strong faith and offer hope for a better way of living through the truth of the Catholic Church. Kolbe Prison Ministry volunteers make up to three weekly visits to the five state Penitentiaries in the Archdiocese of San Antonio.

How to Support Kolbe Prison Ministries SA

There are several ways to help and support this life-changing ministry, including:

• Pray
• Donate
• Volunteer
• Recommend (tell others about us)

Click here to learn more

 Our service is provided in the jails and prisons within the Archdiocese of San Antonio. We work in conjunction with Bexar County Adult Detention Center, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Kolbe Prison Ministries, and Chrysalis Ministry. We support the incarcerated with our Catholic faith through retreats, RCIA classes, Bible Study, Prayer, Communion Services, and help with arranging sacraments.

For information contact Gerald Gaenslen at 210-789-2409 or [email protected].

Partner

FREED Texas is looking for Organizations, Agencies, Employers, Businesses, and Individuals who volunteer their time and resources to support our mission and scholars.

Click here to apply

FREED Texas is open to Organizations, Agencies, Businesses, and individuals who offer their information, stories, and insights to connect scholars to the community that can support their goals.

We are grateful for any donations: monetary,  voluntary, or through goods and resources. Our mission and Scholars rely greatly on our community and community partners for continued success.

What is a Scholar?
A scholar is an individual who is selected to be part of the Remanent Healing Academy. They attend a 9-week program.

What is an Alumni?
Once a scholar completes the Remanent Healing Academy, they become alumni and will continue to receive support for 12 months after completing the 9-week program.

Frontline Advocate
Alumni will have the opportunity to utilize the leadership skills learned by helping other scholars develop skills for continued success.

Eligibility 

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have been formally incarcerated through Bexar County.
• Must complete the enrollment process.
• Must be willing to attend daily sessions from 10 am-3 pm daily for the 9-week duration. 

Program Benefits 

• Receive $15 per hour while enrolled in the program.
• Receive 12 months of supportive services following graduation. 
• Eligible to receive a 2-year scholarship with Alamo Colleges upon program completion. 

The 9-week Turning Point Program through FREED Texas focuses on the following: 

• Peer Support
• Education
• Civics and Divinity
• Employment
• Health and wellness.

Scholars attending the program will learn about each area of focus called Pillars. Classes are facilitated by leaders in each field and alumni. Learning is interactive and supportive.

Click here to apply

RAICES pays bonds for qualifying clients in federal government custody.

Between 2018 and 2023, in coordination with the National Bail Fund Network and other partners, RAICES paid out $20M in bonds to keep families together and free.

Call (833) 372-4237 to make an appointment.

Our Violence Intervention Program is one of only three State-certified Batterers Intervention Programs in Bexar County, reaching male, female, and LGBTQ perpetrators of domestic violence with a comprehensive curriculum.

The VIP program consists of group therapy for men and women who perpetrate domestic and family violence. VIP curriculum allows perpetrators to take responsibility for their abusive behavior and teaches them the fundamentals of a healthy, non-violent relationship. It is designed to cover different aspects of violence and family abuse.

If you are ready to end your abusive behavior, join one of our groups. The program consists of 20 group sessions that meet every week for two hours. If you are interested in joining, please set an appointment.

All services are offered in English and Spanish.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call (210) 930-3669, ext. 2101 or 2102.

• Every participant needs to have a personal email and access to a personal computer or smartphone (example: iPhone, Android)
• Participation in the VIP program is open to the public as well as persons referred by the court, CPS, probation office, or parole office.

• Before paying the $25 fee, intake paperwork must be filled out in person. Please call 210-930-3669 and press option #3 to make an intake appointment.

Initial evaluation $25. This is a two-hour appointment to complete paperwork and meet one-on-one with a professional counselor.

Group sessions are $25 per session. The total amount of sessions is 24.

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.

EWOP's innovative program is designed to transform the lives of women in prison, so that when they leave, they are prepared both for a job search and an alternate path to success: self-employment.

EWOP goes into a correctional facility, where we work directly with women while they serve their sentence. ?The goal? Total transformation from the inside out.

We Create Personal Connection Through Mentorship.
Knowing someone believes in you, that’s powerful. EWOP volunteer mentors and coaches invest deeply in our participants’ success. From the time they meet in prison to after the women are released, participants can count on a support network to help them reach their goals.

Throughout the year, EWOP hosts events for supporters and volunteers to come encourage, educate, and inspire incarcerated women in Texas.

For more information on events and to sign-up for more information about becoming a volunteer, please click here. Click this link for the volunteer opportunities with EWOP.

Removing Barriers Together

Our inclusive hiring strategy offers fair and equitable employment opportunities.

The MOD Opportunity Network (MOD O.N.) connects community nonprofits across the country to support job seekers with barriers, like:

• justice involvement individuals
• individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities

Interested in volunteering with the Charles Roundtree Bloom Project?

We just need a few pieces of information to get the application process started. As you may already know, we provide healing-centered outdoor experiences and culturally relevant environmental education for youth of incarcerated parents in San Antonio. Volunteers play a great role in our programming, and making sure our volunteers fit will with the youth we serve is very important to us.

Click here for volunteer application.

For volunteer inquiries email [email protected].

Newly Empowered Women (N.E.W.), is a program of B.E.A.T. Coalition Trust designed to help women who are infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS begin renewed lives by overcoming the past. As they journey down their new road, our women will learn life long skills in order to develop and maintain healthy and productive lives.

Our Goals:

• Changing Behavior
• Decrease in high risk behavior
• Reuniting Families
• Eliminating drug and alcohol abuse
• Building economic and financial stability
• Developing computer literacy
• Increasing job readiness
• Cultivating a healthy image of one’s self

Our Residents:

• Women who are disproportionately infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
• Women who are in transition from homelessness, struggling with drug addiction or coming home from prison
• Women with the desire to live healthy, clean and sober lives
• Remain at our facility from 6 to 24 months.

We provide affordable housing for women in transition, including the formerly incarcerated, and equip them for independent living.

Eligible women and their children can stay for one year.

We will partner with other organizations to aid in career searches and career placement services.

We offer the following classes:

• Anger Management
• Shoplifting
• Drug Offender
• Cognitive Behavior

We endeavor to partner with local school districts and community colleges to provide higher levels of education.

We have a man to man mentoring program called Mentoring Big Brothers which is designed to match mentees with male mentors whom have had a brush with "the law" but have made a decision to transform their life and become productive members of society.

The Esperanza Court provides transitional residential support to individuals enrolled in the Bexar County Human Trafficking Court. This Bexar County Specialty Court began operating in May 2014 with the aim of interrupting the cycle of prostitution, arrests and addiction that devastates the lives of women and men. Shortly after the court’s inception, Crosspoint agreed to add its proven model of transitional residential services to the court’s resources.

Crosspoint’s Esperanza program provides a safe and secure residential experience for clients. The program is co-located in our Residential Reentry Center where that program’s structure and accountability rules provide clients positive support in their challenging transition. Esperanza clients who lack positive supports in the community need time to establish a stable foundation for independent growth and success. The Crosspoint program provides a safe haven from which Esperanza clients can take time to build their skills and resources as they prepare for a new life.

Crosspoint provides a structured residential environment for individuals referred by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Probation Office or U.S. Pretrial Services.

Accountability is the foundation for this service model. Residents are held accountable for their behavior and progress throughout the program while staff is accountable for adhering to procedures that promote public safety. Every resident undergoes assessment and individualized program planning. After a short in-house orientation period the resident receives additional privileges which allow him/her to become further integrated into the community.

Measures of program progress include:

• obtaining employment
• development of a realistic budget
• improving family and community support systems
• remaining drug and alcohol-free
• development of a stable residential plan

The Crosspoint experience helps reduce recidivism and the attendant societal and economic costs by utilizing integrated, evidence-based services.

Crosspoint strives to forge the essential alliance between criminal justice supervision, community service providers and other community stakeholders to provide our clients with the resources and guidance necessary to lead productive lives and achieve restoration of citizenship.

Restoration of the individual, the family and the community at large is paramount and Crosspoint allows for individual restoration through community service projects, faith-based services, structured programming and supportive relationship with our staff.

Referral from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Probation Office, or U.S. Pretrial Services