The Veterans’ Housing Stability Program (VHSP) provides comprehensive housing support to veterans or surviving spouses through homeless prevention, rapid re-housing and wrap-around services.

The Homeless Prevention Program provides:

• Rental assistance
• Case management
• Financial literacy education

The Rapid Re-Housing Program provides:

• Assistance with the rental security deposit and utility connection
• Up to 3 months rent assistance
• Case management
• Modest furniture allowance
• Financial literacy education

Wrap-Around Client Services include:

• Bus passes
• Referrals for life skills classes such as parenting, conflict resolution, and wellness
• Referrals to SAMMinistries’ educational and employment services
• Other veteran-specific referrals as well as referrals to appropriate service providers in the community

Eligibility requirements:

• Must be a veteran or the surviving spouse with an honorable discharge status from the U.S. Armed Services (DD214 required).
• Must be at imminent risk of being homeless.
• Must have sustainable income.

Ready to make a difference? You’ve come to the right place!

Every one of our volunteers is a valuable part of our work here, and we could not succeed in overcoming homelessness without them. We hope you will join the team!

Individual volunteers:

• Click here to complete an individual volunteer application, which includes consenting to a background check.
• You will then receive information on volunteer orientation dates. (Your application will not be approved until you have attended an orientation.)
• Volunteer opportunities are sent out weekly to all approved volunteers with an online sign-up.

Group volunteers:

Click here to learn more and complete a group volunteer application.

• SAMMinistries Volunteer Services will contact you within one week to offer your group some options for volunteering.

Anyone aged 14 and up may volunteer independently; however, you must be at least 16 years old to volunteer independently in our opportunities involving children.

SAMMinistries does not provide volunteer opportunities for adults with court-mandated community service hours. However, in lieu of community service hours, adults can pay SAMMinistries to certify court ordered service hours at a rate of $8 per hour.

Please contact Human Resources at our administrative offices at (210) 340-0302 for additional information.

We are a ministry that has been ordained and anointed by God for such a time as this; appointed to minister to the whole man; spirit, soul, and body.

Each week, Assistant Pastor Tony, his wife, and a team of soul winners go to Haven for Hope to talk and pray with people residing there, inviting them to receive Christ and join us for Sunday services and a home-cooked meal at the church. The pastor of our homeless ministry has a heart for people experiencing homelessness because he was once a homeless addict himself.

"Our City Cares” funding is allocated by City Council to assist San Antonio residents with short term child care during an emergency or extenuating circumstance.

For more information regarding Homeless Child Care please call 210.230.6343.

“Our City Cares” funding is allocated by City Council to assist San Antonio residents with short-term child care during an emergency or extenuating circumstance.

Applicant must meet one of the following criteria to be eligible for services:

• Be at risk of losing permanent housing (eviction) due to loss of work, household income, or medical emergency. Applicant must provide supporting documentation.
• Be a victim of domestic violence with supporting documentation such as a restraining order or police report.
• Suddenly become a guardian of a child or children due to the death, abandonment, and/or incarceration of parents. Applicant must provide supporting documentation.
• Have extenuating circumstances, that negatively impact or disrupt an individual’s ability to obtain or maintain stable childcare services, such as, but not limited to: residential fire, domestic violence, natural disaster, emergency medical treatment, and/or hospitalization.

Applicant must provide supporting documentation, including proof of residency within a San Antonio City Council District.

Based on funding availability, Our City Cares may be able to provide 2-3 weeks of care.

Through this unique veterans assistance program, ACG provides quality affordable housing and extensive supportive services to include outreach and case management to homeless and at-risk veteran families.

ACG is currently partnering with the local American G.I. Forum and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System to work at ending homelessness among San Antonio’s Veteran population.

Veterans only

Free

One Step at a Time

Zabrina’s Jolly Bunch, Inc., is a multipurpose non-profit group located in San Antonio, TX, that serves low-income individuals, aged-out foster children, the hungry /homeless, and those with developmental disabilities.

Zabrina’s Jolly Bunch, Inc. provides:

• Room and Board
• Food 
• Transportation Services
• Educational Assistance
• Case Management
• Transition Living Services

The Mobile Loaves & Fishes, Inc. (MLF) program began in 1998 as an outreach ministry at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Austin, Texas. It was founded on the guiding principle of "providing permanent, sustainable solutions for the chronically homeless, with compassion, love, and dignity." From its humble beginnings with six St. John Neumann parishioners who delivered 75 sack lunches per day, Mobile Loaves & Fishes has grown into a nation-wide movement that includes 16 meal trucks and 17,208 volunteers in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Texas. To date, the Austin-based MLF program and its affiliates have served over 4.4 million meals.

In 2006, the St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church Mobile Loaves & Fishes core team approached St. Francis of Assisi parishioners with a proposal for establishing a new MLF ministry. The promise of seed money and organizational support was bolstered by the Austin-based MLF program's donation of a catering truck. Recognizing the plight and ever-growing problem of hunger in the San Antonio area, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church excitedly joined the MLF ministry in January 2007.

The initial St. Francis of Assisi call for volunteers brought over 500 parishioners into the ministry. In the intervening years, the MLF ministry has involved over 450 parishioners and other volunteers from area businesses, churches, and civic groups including: Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Newcomers of San Antonio, NuStar Energy L. P., and the San Pedro Presbyterian Church. From an initial goal of serving only supper seven days a week, the MLF program expanded to include lunch and supper every day of the week. The program provides various services to 16 San Antonio area locations, including House of Prayer Lutheran Church, Guadalupe Community Center, Interfaith Welcome Coalition, St. Vinnys Bistro, refugee communities near the Medical Center, and several parishes on the South and West sides of the city.

With homelessness and hunger posing a major problem throughout the world and in San Antonio, it is our goal to help alleviate some of that suffering. From 2007 to December 2022, MLF volunteers have served 800,000 meals to 21 San Antonio area locations.

The St. Francis of Assisi Mobile Loaves and Fishes ministry has adopted the following mission statement: "to provide food, clothing, and dignity to our brothers and sisters in need."

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, our MLF ministry has been forced to alter our normal meal delivery schedule and limit the overall number of locations served.

To view the newly revised Meals Serving Schedule, click the Calendar link.

Click here to see the various San Antonio locations served by the St. Francis of Assisi Mobile Loaves and Fishes ministry.

We fulfill our mission by building relationships with and providing for the total well-being of the elderly poor and homeless through the following free goods and services:

• Visitation (residence, nursing home, and hospital)
  Ministry
• Phone calls
• Food/nourishment deliveries
• Toiletries/essentials deliveries
• Fans/heaters deliveries
• Minor home repairs and maintenance
• Lawn care
• Donated items (e.g., wheelchairs, walkers, household goods, furniture, appliances, etc.)
• Annual painting project of elderly’s home

This program is for persons 65 years or older who have a monthly income at or below the current year federal poverty level and live in one of these low-income zip codes:

• 78202
• 78204
• 78207
• 78210
• 78211
• 78212
• 78225
• 78226
• 78228
• 78237

Our Veteran Services program offers Homelessness Prevention and Stabilization Services to Veterans and their families in Texas. These supportive services include outreach, case management, help in obtaining VA benefits, emergency financial assistance for rent and utilities and assistance in obtaining and coordinating other public benefits.

Endeavors provides services to very low income Veteran families, Veterans facing eviction, and/or Veterans currently homeless and scheduled to move into housing within 90 days. Our goal is to rapidly rehouse or prevent homelessness for Veterans and their families and enhance independent living skills and/or Income for very low-income Veteran families.

We provide the following services through the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) at low to no cost:

• Case Management
  o Development of a Housing Stability Plan
  o Assistance in obtaining VA and other benefits
  o Referrals to Community Agencies
• Emergency Financial Assistance for rent and utilities (based on financial need)
  o Referrals for financial counseling and legal assistance
• Job placement assistance
• Parenting programs
• Skills Workshops

Eligibility:

• Low-income Veteran families
• Veterans facing eviction
• Veterans currently homeless and scheduled to move into housing within 90 days

We can place unsheltered veterans in emergency housing and can offer other services for veterans needing immediate shelter. Call (210) 469-9664.

Veterans seeking other services can contact us by phone at (210) 399-4838 or email here for information or other assistance.

Endeavors provides permanent supportive housing, case management, professional counseling, life skills training, and employment opportunities for chronically homeless women in San Antonio with disabilities and their children so that they can achieve a life full of stability, success, and self-sufficiency in an apartment-style campus.

We provide the following services through Fairweather Family Lodge:

• A safe, healthy, stable, and secure place to live
• Life skills training in parenting, finance, conflict resolution, relationship, problem-solving, leadership, and other social interaction issues
• Assistance in meeting educational needs of school-age children
• Symptom management
• Case management services
• Individualized assessments

The goals for this program include:

• Providing a safe, healthy, stable, and caring environment
• Increasing self-sufficiency and family/personal income through education, job training, and job placement
• Decreasing episodes of homelessness and/or acute psychiatric care

Endeavors‘ Providing Sustainable Hope (PSH) program provides permanent supportive housing to chronically homeless adults who have a disabling condition. This can include mental health conditions, developmental disabilities, or substance abuse disorders.

WHO WE SERVE

• This program can serve up to 96 adult individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness and have a disabling condition.
• Referrals must be located in Bexar County; all clients are referred to PSH through the coordinated entry system called Homelink.

PROGRAM GOALS

• Provide permanent supportive housing and supportive services to single adults who have experienced chronic homelessness and have a disabling condition.

PROGRAM SERVICES

• Individuals are connected with housing solutions within Bexar County.
• Residents have access to long-term mental health counseling, employment assistance, educational services, life skills training, and basic needs.

Endeavors provides a safe, healthy, stable, and caring environment to chronically homeless women with disabilities and their children.

Through permanent supportive housing, these families receive case management, professional counseling, life skills training, and employment opportunities, allowing them to increase self-sufficiency and family income, while decreasing episodes of homelessness and/or acute psychiatric care.

Services:

• A safe, healthy, stable, and secure place to live
• Life skills training in parenting, finance, conflict resolution, relationship, problem-solving, leadership, and other social interaction issues
• Assistance in meeting educational needs of school- age children
• Symptom management
• Case management services
• Individualized assessments

Endeavors' Youth Resiliency Project (YRP) provides rapid rehousing assistance to self-identified youth and young adults living in the Bexar County area. Participants of the YRP participate in our proven housing model, which encourages safe and stable housing to heal from trauma.

WHO WE SERVE 

• This program can serve up to 45 youth adults (aged 18-24) or families experiencing homelessness.
• All clients are located in Bexar County and referred to YRP through the coordinated entry system called Homelink. 

PROGRAM GOALS

• Provide unhoused youth, young adults, and their families with rapid re-housing housing and supportive services to gain new skills and prevent eviction. 

PROGRAM SERVICES

• Individuals are connected with housing solutions within Bexar County.
• Participants have access to mental health counseling, parenting education, employment assistance, educational services, life skills training, mentorship, childcare, and basic needs.

To provide a ministry of excellence, exaltation, edification, encouragement, evangelism, and education.

To reach the lost for Christ (John 1:11-12).

To reach people through the power of Christ by telling the happy, young, old, homeless, bound, crippled, poor, fatherless, hungry, addicted, forsaken, blind, lame, lonely, and the forgotten, that Jesus loves them (John 3:16-17).

To ensure that this ministry teaches the word of God in season and out of season, to educate the young and old through grade school, daycare services, and Bible school.

To operate in faith (Hebrew 11:1) and to fulfill its duty to the community by being an example for daily Christian living.

For our faith statement and how we worship, click here.

To sign up for our newsletter, click here.

To donate, click here.

To contact us by sending a message, click here.

Prior to placement in our residential program, children may be assessed and cared for in our Emergency Shelter.

Children who have experienced trauma receive a new chance at life as they begin their healing in our Emergency Shelter. Our Emergency Shelter Program provides temporary care for boys and girls, birth to 17, who cannot remain in their home. Over 80% of these children are under the protection of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

While a child’s stay is short term, our integrated, trauma-informed care approach provides a foundation of healing for each child.

Boysville accepts children whose families are in crisis as a result of illness, unemployment, poverty, abuse, neglect, or homelessness. Children are admitted without regard to race, religion, ethnicity or their family’s ability to pay for services. We want to help every child.

For placement into Boysville, a telephone screening conducted by our shelter staff begins the intake process. If it is determined Boysville can help the child, a date will then be set for placement into our Emergency Shelter. Emergency placements can be done immediately if the shelter director gives approval. During a 30-day placement, an assessment will be conducted to include daily written observations by the shelter caregivers, mental health assessment by the Director of Therapeutic Services, academic assessments by the Learning Center staff and a weekly review of individual progress by the assessment team. This assessment determines if Boysville can help the child, or if the child requires more extensive care.

Once the 30-day period is completed and it is determined that the child will remain at Boysville, he or she will be placed in an age-appropriate and gender-appropriate cottage.

Boys and girls, birth to 17 years.

For placement into the shelter, the following is required:

• Birth Certificate
• Social Security Card
• Immunization record
• Withdrawal forms from school
• Documents pertaining to custody or guardianship

Each child at the shelter will be evaluated for the following:

• Social behavior
• Academic progress
• Medical needs
• Psychiatric assessment

A child not be admitted to Boysville if he or she has exhibited:

• gang affiliation
• drug or alcohol abuse
• history of chronic runaway
• extreme aggressive behavior
• inability to work within limits set by an appropriate caregiver
• history of fire setting
• history of cruelty to animals

The Tobit Ministry responds to the death of those who lived on the street by facilitating their burial in a dignified and reverent manner that is respectful of their particular faith and culture. Through contact with various ministries and agencies serving people who are homeless, the Tobit Ministry seeks out partnerships with individuals and organizations concerned with the poorest in the community.

STEP 1: REFERRAL
When someone who has lived on the street and died without family, friends or others to provide a respectful burial and dignified final resting place, The Tobit Ministry receives a referral, typically from a ministry or agency that serves people who are homeless, such as:

• Medical Services
• Spiritual Services
• Social Services
• Mental Health Services
• Homeless Services
• City or State Government
• Law Enforcement

STEP 2: CONTACT TOBIT MINISTRY
Email [email protected] or phone 210-504-7016

STEP 3: BURIAL AND MEMORIAL PLANNING
The Tobit Ministry and the referring agents, family and friends begin the planning process of burial, memorial and story-telling of the deceased person.

STEP 4: CELEBRATION
A memorial service is offered that is reverent, dignified, and mindful of the deceased person’s faith life.

When you donate and shop at the Hill Country Animal League Thrift Store, you are saving the lives of unwanted or homeless animals in our community and helping low-income pet owners.

The proceeds from the thrift store directly subsidize the costs of providing low-cost spay & neuter surgeries and pet wellness services at the Hill Country Animal League Clinic.

Click here to shop online.

Click here to schedule a donation pickup.

Click here to volunteer.

Discount Days!

10% Discount

Tuesday: Seniors
Wednesday: Teachers/Students
Friday: Military/First Responders

• 24-hour emergency shelter for all victims
• Residents can receive all services offered
• Residents work toward self-sufficiency away from violence or homelessness

Men and Women of all ages.

Hope 4 Hounds exists to provide no-cost veterinary services to the homeless population within San Antonio, Texas, and surrounding areas so that individual dogs can receive the necessary vaccines and other proactive services while staying with their owners.

Click here for times and locations of upcoming clinics.

This program is for pets of people who are without permanent shelter.

Our House transitional apartments operated by BCFS Health and Human Services - Kerrville offer supportive housing units for young adults, ages 18 to 25. The apartments are for young adults struggling with homelessness in need of assistance and support transitioning to be self-sufficient. 

Our House is a drug and alcohol-free environment. The program provides weekly case management services, group resident meetings, and assistance with employment, education, and counseling.

There are eight 1-bedroom units including an adult resident advisor that supervises the apartments and manages the property. Our House has supported many young youths' transition into self-sufficient adults.

Services can be provided in additional languages with sufficient prior notice.

Ages: 18-25