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What is Ask Your Relative?

Ask Your Relative is a team of educators, public health professionals, and caring adults supporting Native Youth through our Q&A service.

Here, Native you(th) can ask questions on various topics ranging from how to flat stitch to snagging.

We do our best to answer – as your relatives, we recognize how identity, culture, and community influence our lives and health.

You've got questions, we've got answers!

We’ve got celebrity guests! What have you been dying to ask?

Ask Your Relative is excited to be joined by some special celebrity guest relatives, including actors Dallas Goldtooth (Reservation Dogs, Rutherford Falls), Ryan Begay (Breaking Bad, Dark Winds), musician Quinn Christopher, seamstress Nikki Corbett, and more!

Click here to submit your question for a guest relative or the form below to submit a question for the Ask Your Relative team!

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Updated within the last 1 month.

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Farias-Spitzer Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Tuesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Wednesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Thursday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Friday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Farias-Spitzer Elementary
(830) 837-7600
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Freiheit Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Tuesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Wednesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Thursday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Friday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Freiheit Elementary
(830) 221-2700
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Canyon Middle School.

Hours
Monday: 8:15 AM - 3:50 PM
Tuesday: 8:15 AM - 3:50 PM
Wednesday: 8:15 AM - 3:50 PM
Thursday: 8:15 AM - 3:50 PM
Friday: 8:15 AM - 3:50 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Canyon Middle School
(830) 221-2300
Updated within the last month

Residential Treatment Center

The Residential Treatment program at DePelchin treats foster children struggling with severe mental, emotional, or behavioral problems that inhibit normal functioning in a family setting. The purpose of the program is to help the youth develop the coping methods, internal control, and social skills they need to transition back into a home environment.

TAGS

DePelchin’s Transitioning to Adulthood through Guidance and Support (TAGS) Program seeks to provide a safe, stable environment for homeless young adults, ages 18-22, who have aged out of the child welfare system. In addition to offering temporary residence, the TAGS Program provides youths the opportunities, knowledge, and skills necessary to mature into productive, responsible adults capable of becoming independent.

Pregnant and Parenting Teen and Transitional Living Programs

DePelchin Children’s Center offers a Pregnant and Parenting Teen Program and a Residential Treatment Program for older youth aging out of foster care.

Our programs at Today’s Harbor a DePelchin Children’s Center Campus are intended to create a holistic approach to caring for at-risk youths while providing a safe and nurturing environment for everyone receiving services.

Our approach is based on education, individualized case management, mental health, wellness, and preparation for living independently. 

Updated within the last 5 months.

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Clear Spring Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Tuesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Wednesday: 7:35 PM - 3:10 PM
Thursday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Friday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Clear Spring Elementary
(830) 837-7300
Updated within the last month

Trinity Oaks is humbled to have the honor of hosting people afflicted with terminal illness on “Texas Dream Trips,” which we hope fulfill their last outdoor-based wish.

It is a blessing to bring joy to a person battling life-threatening illnesses.  Through Texas Dream Trips, we create an outdoor experience the entire family will share forever and another reason for those battling life-threatening or terminal conditions to fight a bit harder and hopefully beat the illness.

For people battling life-threatening or terminal illnesses, the results of nature programming are even more dramatic.  According to the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, fulfilling the dreams of children battling life-threatening or terminal illnesses and connecting them with nature helps not only ease their psychological stress but also eases the burden on all of their families, helping them cope with their loss in a meaningful way.

Top medical caregivers of sick children identify that psychosocial needs that must be met include:

  • Time to be a child, i.e., engaging in age-appropriate activities for children
  • spiritual needs, including expressing gratitude for nature, God, or whatever other culturally or family-appropriate channel
  • and wish fulfillment when possible.

Addressing these needs can also significantly help families cope with the imminent loss of their loved one and assist the grieving process.

Anyone battling a life-threatening illness.

Click here to apply for a Dream Trip.

Free

Updated within the last month

Trinity Oaks launched a special StarKids program for the sons and daughters of fallen first responders and combat veterans. Losing a parent changes a child’s life forever. When that parent falls as a hero, a first responder, or a veteran who was helping others or protecting our freedoms, the trauma is multiplied even further. 

The Trinity Oaks’ StarKids program aims to help these sons and daughters honor their families’ sacrifices with a unique outdoor experience.

StarKids focuses on children of fallen military veterans who died in combat and first responders, police officers, game wardens, disaster responders, and firefighters between the ages of 10 and 18 years.

Each child is paired with a fallen first responder’s agency or military branch member as a hunting buddy and mentor. Both become “hunter safety certified” together before the hunt. Groups of 4-6 StarKids and their buddies then participate in a unique hunt together for deer, hog, or an exotic hunt, depending on the group’s interest.

Ages: 10-18.

Children of fallen veterans, first responders, police officers, and game wardens.

Click here to apply for StarKids.

Free.

Updated within the last month

Young people can build self-confidence through the development of specialized skills, and this is one of the best defenses against unhealthy peer pressure.

Through the Trinity Oaks’ H2O Outdoor Adventure program, kids are exposed to a full day of challenging tasks. As they sample unfamiliar activities such as archery, hunting, wilderness survival skills, firearms safety, and outdoor cooking, these young people will practice group participation, physical exertion, humility, and thinking on their feet — skills our next generation needs and can use daily.

As trained mentors and special guest celebrities lead them, participants will acquire new abilities in the outdoors, perhaps even without realizing that the process is occurring.

Click here to apply for Youth Programs.

Free.

Updated within the last month

Bringing loved ones together for a family experience!

Family Dining:  Come and enjoy a nice dinner experience with your family. Appreciate time away from the busy world we live in and share your life at The Kitchen Table.

Kids Kitchen: Does your child enjoy cooking? Do they want to learn to cook?

To participate in Family Dining or Kid's Kitchen, make a reservation with Jennifer at 210-431-8479.

Jennifer
(210) 431-8479
Updated within the last 1 month.

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 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.

Steps for the YES! program:

  • Eligibility Determination
  • Objective Assessment
  • Development of an ISS (Goal Plan)
  • Program Participation
  • Follow Up Services

Get started by attending an information session.

  • Orientations are held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 PM.
  • To join, click here or paste this link into a new browser and save it until the next session is about to start.
  • For assistance, call (346) 248-7799.
  • Meeting ID: 992 5144 0356
  • No meeting password is required.
  • (Registration on Eventbrite is encouraged but not required.)
Hours
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

*Closed for lunch from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM.
Updated within the last 2 months.

Our Mission? is to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith. We do this by: 

  • Praying for young people
  • Going where kids are and building personal relationships with them
  • Earning the right to share the Good News of Jesus Christ
  • Providing fun, adventurous, life-changing, and skill-building experiences
  • Inviting kids to personally respond to the Good News and walking in friendship with them regardless of their response
  • Working in the community alongside like-minded adults (volunteer leaders, committee members, donors, and staff)

Click here for more information.

Delaney Cox Send email
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Goodwin Frazier Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Tuesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Wednesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Thursday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Friday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Goodwin Frazier Elementary
(830) 221-2200
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Lamar Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Tuesday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Wednesday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Thursday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Friday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Lamar Elementary
(830) 627-6890
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Memorial Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:15 AM -
Tuesday: 7:15 AM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 7:15 AM - 4:00 PM
Thursday: 7:15 AM - 4:00 PM
Friday: 7:15 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Memorial Elementary
(830) 627-6470
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

 

This program is for students at Carl Schurz Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Tuesday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Wednesday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Thursday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Friday: 7:55 AM - 3:25 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Carl Schurz Elementary
(830) 627-6680
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Walnut Springs Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:40 AM - 3:10 PM
Tuesday: 7:40 AM - 3:10 PM
Wednesday: 7:40 AM - 3:10 PM
Thursday: 7:40 AM - 3:10 PM
Friday: 7:40 AM - 3:10 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Walnut Springs Elementary
(830) 627-6540
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at County Line Elementary.

 

Hours
Monday: 7:05 AM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday: 7:05 AM - 3:30 PM
Wednesday: 7:05 AM - 3:30 PM
Thursday: 7:05 AM - 3:30 PM
Friday: 7:05 AM - 3:30 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
County Line Elementary
(830) 627-6610
Updated within the last month

The S.A.F.E Program works to identify children and their families who are identified “at risk” and facilitate a community-based approach to improve educational experience and opportunity for all Comal County children.

 

The program serves children, aged 6-11, and their families who reside in Comal County and who demonstrate attendance and/or behavioral issues that place the child “at risk” of truancy, educational deficiencies, and delinquent behavior.

Referrals can be made by:

  • School officials and Truancy Officers
  • Student services counselors
  • Judges/ Truancy Courts
  • Parents and Guardians
Hours
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

Nora Smith Send email
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Klein Road Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 6:50 AM - 3:45 PM
Tuesday: 6:50 AM - 3:45 PM
Wednesday: 6:50 AM - 3:45 PM
Thursday: 6:50 AM - 3:45 PM
Friday: 6:50 AM - 3:45 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Klein Road Elementary
(830) 221-1700
Updated within the last month
Notice

Mill Street Youth Center is projected to open in early 2026. 

Mill Street Youth Center offers a wide variety of services to students. From spaces for homework to a teaching kitchen to eSports to STEM activities to lounges to a performing arts stage and more backed by caring, supportive staff and volunteers.

Our program focuses on four pillars:

  • Academic Success
  • Wellness
  • Enrichment Experiences
  • Healthy Lifestyle

 

6th through 12th grade students

Updated within the last month

C.Y.O. is the organization to join if you enjoy sports and are between the ages of 4 -17. It offers healthy competition in volleyball, track and basketball.

Children of any religion in the community are encouraged to join. C.Y.O. is sponsored by this parish and governed by the Chancery of San Antonio. Teams play against other C.Y.O. teams from the northeast area of San Antonio.

Ages: 4 -17.

To get more information, contact David Mesa (830) 832-6558.

Adult volunteers are crucial to the success of the program, and if God has given you athletic talent, consider volunteering your time to this ministry.

You can serve the Lord as you help His children develop their athletic talents in a Christian environment. Quite a good deal!

We need young people to participate in this program so if you are a child, or if you are the parent of a child, you are invited to become part of our C.Y.O. We anxiously wait for your arrival!

If you have any questions please email [email protected]

Hours
Monday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

David Mesa
(830) 832-6558
Updated within the last year

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at New Braunfels Middle School.

Hours
Monday: 7:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday: 7:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 7:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Thursday: 7:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Friday: 7:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
New Braunfels Middle School
(830) 627-6270
Updated within the last month

Enrolling your child(ren) in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program is the first step in providing them with a caring mentor who can bring new perspective to their world. As a parent, you will also have the opportunity to enroll in the informative and powerful workshop, Raising Highly Capable Kids.

Enroll your child here.

Always open
Rianne Sykes-Wenske Send email
(830) 777-7476
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Oak Creek Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Tuesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Wednesday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Thursday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Friday: 7:35 AM - 3:10 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Oak Creek Elementary
(830) 837-7200
Updated within the last month

Through Positive Action curriculum and Curriculum-Based Support Group programs, staff engage with youth in a fun, active manner while also delivering valuable, lasting messages. Programs available in school and in the community. These programs help with:

Youth Development

  • Substance Avoidance
  • Honesty & Kindness
  • Confidence Building
  • Self-Improvement
  • Stress Management
  • Problem Solving

Academic Achievement

  • Goal Setting
  • Prioritization,
  • Acting Responsibly
  • Cognitive Competence

Social Interaction

  • Bullying Recovery
  • Peer Pressure Response
  • Healthy Choices
  • Positive Friendships
  • Relationship Building

Request programming here.

Counties served include: Aransas, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bee, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette, Frio, Goliad, Gonzales, Guadalupe, and Karnes.

Updated within the last year

A home for youth preparing to exit foster care. Residents benefit from targeted support to help them transition to adulthood. 

  • Support. Through trauma-informed care and Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) staff and counselors help youth heal from trauma and plan for their futures.
  • Academic Guidance. Case managers help monitor academic performance and guide youth in preparing for higher education or employment.
  • Life Skills. Residents benefit from training and education designed to facilitate independent living. Skills include budgeting, credit planning, resume writing, and interviewing.
  • Be aged 15-22 and in the foster care system.
  • Be enrolled in (or have completed) high school, a GED course, vocational program, college, university, or technical school.
  • Seek, obtain, or continue employment (if not enrolled in an educational program).
  • Participate in programs on education, vocational training, employment, and volunteer outreach.
  • Be capable of acquiring the skills necessary to become economically self-sufficient.
  • Live cooperatively and responsibly with other residents in the program.

Transitional Living Program admission must be initiated by the youth's DFPS caseworker or Child Placing Unit. Authorized personnel should send the State of Texas Common Application and psychological evaluation to the agency intake email.

Updated within the last year

Our Dare to Dream program matches mentors with youth to navigate life's challenges together, providing advice, encouragement, and a supportive community.

We believe that the simple act of telling a mentee "I believe in you," "You are special," and "You are going to do great things" can transform their journey entirely.

Mentors meet both practical and emotional needs, guiding their mentees through tailored developmental milestones.

Mentors commit to meeting with their mentees every other week to set goals and help them achieve their dreams. While the relationships ideally last a lifetime, the program is a one-year commitment.

  • Make a referral here.
  • Volunteer information here.

The program offers one-on-one mentorship to youth in care aged 11-22.

Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Seele Elementary.

Hours
Monday: 7:35 AM - 3:05 PM
Tuesday: 7:35 AM - 3:05 PM
Wednesday: 7:35 AM - 3:05 PM
Thursday: 7:35 AM - 3:05 PM
Friday: 7:35 AM - 3:05 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Seele Elementary
(830) 627-6750
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at Long Creek High School.

Hours
Monday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
Long Creek High School
(830) 629-8700
Updated within the last month

CIS collaborates with schools to connect students and families to tailored community resources, addressing health, behavioral, and family crises. Serving students facing challenges such as poverty, substance abuse, and poor mental health, CIS ensures safe and healthy environments both at school and at home.

Basic Needs: Students aren’t at their best if they are hungry, cold, tired, or don’t have the necessities, like clothing, school supplies or hygiene items. CIS Site Coordinators see to it that students can focus on learning and teachers can focus on teaching.

Academic Assistance: Sometimes students just need a little assistance to lift them to success. We connect students with the extra support they need to succeed.

Healthy Initiatives: Healthier children make better students. It’s hard to focus on math and reading if a student can’t see the blackboard, is suffering from mental health issues, a tooth ache, or absent because of untreated asthma. Addressing health and mental health needs with the help of our community partners keeps students in school, focused, and ready to learn.

Social Emotional Health: We want students to approach people and challenges in healthy ways. How do you learn to pay attention? Solve problems or conflicts with others? Be persistent in the face of frustration? Our students are learning these and other critical life skills thanks to relationships with CIS Site Coordinators.

College and Career Exploration: For students pursuing college, we help decipher the application process, explore scholarship opportunities, tour campuses and conduct mock interviews. For those planning to enter the work force, we help students discover enjoyable, sustainable career paths and connect them to internships, job shadowing opportunities and leadership training courses. For those undecided, our Project Success coordinators provide a safe sounding board to articulate goals and fears, and explore options.

This program is for students at New Braunfels High School.

Hours
Monday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Thursday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: CLOSED

Communities in Schools Send email
(830) 620-4247
New Braunfels High School
(830) 627-6000
Updated within the last month