AARC is one of the largest and most experienced providers of LGBT health and mental health care, supported by a culturally sensitive team working to advance the care and treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people.

Primary Care: AARC’s Health Equity Clinic (HEC) provides a safe space for licensed medical staff to conduct intakes and medical assessments while offering treatment services for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community in San Antonio, which historically one of the most medically underserved populations in South Texas. AARC contracts with LGBT and LGBT-friendly physicians and clinicians who are culturally sensitive and representative of the communities served. In addition to primary medical care, AARC Health Equity Clinic staff offer comprehensive information, referral, PrEP, HIV care and patient navigation services for LGBT patients and consumers.

AARC will utilize its LGBT clinic for health services outreach and education to LGBT organizations and the community throughout San Antonio. AARC Health Equity Clinic services are offered with respect and compassion for the diverse community we represent and serve.

HIV Specialty Care: AARC’S Health Equity Clinic offers people living with HIV a wide range of support services, including leading-edge medical care. AARC’s wrap-around care model practices a holistic approach to treatment, helping clients manage all aspects of living with HIV, through counseling, nutritional advice, and transportation support.

Nutritional Services: AARC provides home-delivered meals (Meals on Wheels) to individuals who are on home hospice, home health or who have been recently released from the hospital as well as on-site meals for those with multiple medical and social service appointments. All nutritional services are coordinated through AARC’s registered dietitian.

Pharmacy services include:

• Private consultations with staff members who can answer your questions about medications, especially HIV-drug regimens and side effects
• Free, confidential delivery in San Antonio (some restrictions apply)
• Prescription refill assistance program
• On-site assistance in English and Spanish

If you’re a client of our health center, pharmacy staff will work closely with your physician, nurse, nutritionist, case manager, and/or mental health provider to help you achieve your health care goals. (Pharmacy hours and phone: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, 210.231.0383)

Behavioral Health: Mental Health Services are provided to individuals and families who are dealing with various life stressors. These services are conducted in a group or individual setting, and provided by Licensed Professional Counselors. All behavioral health programs are overseen by Howard Rogers, M.A., AARC’s Executive Director, also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and by Dr. Robert Jimenez, AARC’s Medical Director, a psychiatrist with a history of working with individuals living with HIV.

• Spanish and bilingual services are available.
• The prescribing and monitoring of psychotropic medications to individuals with a diagnosed mental disorder and are provided by a licensed physician.
• The provision of prevention and treatment to address substance abuse problems (including alcohol, legal and illicit drugs) in an outpatient setting. Substance Abuse groups revolve around an evidence based approach to treating substance abuse and involve both group as well as individual support.

We accept:

• Ambetter
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• United Health Care
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Superior

If you are uninsured, we can help determine your eligibility for medical and drug assistance programs.

Harper's Chapel Ministries, in partnership with the City of San Antonio Department of Human Services Homeless Division and Daily Bread Ministries, has established a Resource Hub to assist the residential and houseless community.

Services provided include:

• Food Pantry for the community
• Gently used clothes and shoes
• Hygiene items
• Showers for our homeless neighbors 
• Employment Assistance and other social services

Free

Community Health Programs strengthen women and their communities by working to reduce health disparities and barriers to care. We increase access to essential health care services, wellness tools, skills, and support for transformative community-wide change.

Empower House Parents

Together with San Antonio Metro Health, United Way HOPES Collaborative, and all their partner organizations, we’re raising awareness around family violence and empowering parents with skills and strategies to build life-giving relationships with their kids.

Empower House Women

Through skill-building and wellness workshops, we empower women with knowledge, skills, and a supportive community to make informed choices for themselves and their families.

Community Health Workers/Promotoras

Our community health workers/promotoras work with individuals to bridge access to education, healthcare, and resources. We support people in identifying and addressing their needs, empowering them to live healthy, whole, flourishing lives.

Click here and scroll to the bottom of the page to sign up for parenting classes, emergency assistance, and other Community Health services

Free.

We can provide information on what food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters are available near your location. We can also help you apply for Food Stamps. For assistance, call the number below.

Meals on Wheels San Antonio provides emergency meal packages to the seniors we serve. These packages contain shelf stable food items and are meant to address two main emergencies: immediate relief of hunger and potential weather conditions barring regular meal delivery. Our Client Services Team supply emergency meals to new clients who are in need of an immediate food source. Emergency meals are also delivered every December to all meal recipients in anticipation of inclement weather.

Sign up for home-delivered meals here.

We deliver meals for lunch, breakfast, and the weekend. In fact, for many of our clients, the nutritious, lunch-time meal we provide is the only meal they eat a day. In order to better maintain the health of these individuals Meals on Wheels also provides packages of breakfast food items and/or specially made frozen meals to offer additional nutrition outside of the lunch-time hours.

Potential new clients are screened over the phone and put on meal service as quickly as possible.

Click here to sign up for home-delivered meals.

You will have your own personal shopper. Shopper will get your list, do the shopping, deliver groceries to you. Then, you reimburse shopper.

• 60 years or older
• Must have a checking account

Click here or call 210-967-6372 for a list of all qualfications needed for this service.

Free.

Donations accepted.

Each month on the fourth Thursday, SA Food Bank delivers a truckload of perishable and non-perishable food. Mt. Olive volunteers breakdown, sort, re-pack and give food to 75-80 families with qualifying seniors in the household.

Applicants must meet income requirements per family size in which one or more seniors reside.

Applicants must provide:

• SS Award Letter
• State issued ID
• Utility bill (CPS, SAWS, etc.) showing residency when they apply

Call for more information.

Free.

Project 10:27 INC is a non-profit focused on providing one-on-one Christ-centered care to people in need throughout the community.

Through the development and heavy investment in one-on-one relationships, we offer care to those who are experiencing difficult times in life such as grief, chronic or terminal illness, loneliness, and food insecurity.

We have a particular passion for engaging senior adults who are homebound or transportation challenged. We intend to make this most vulnerable group our first priority.  

To effectively serve them, we prioritize the development of the relationship and are dedicated to building trust by staying in weekly contact with each beneficiary. Through telephone contact, Zoom meetings, and face-to-face encounters in their home we aim for deep conversations, we offer prayer and Bible study while investing in a meaningful friendship.

Through partnerships with area businesses and churches, we intend to meet other needs such as routinely providing food, Bibles, and personal hygiene items while seeking the ability to connect those we serve with those who are willing to help.

We need your help in the following ways:

• Volunteers
• Deliver food bags to seniors homes
• Make phone calls to seniors
• Sending cards and letters to seniors
• Gather needed supplies such as personal hygiene items and specific food items
• Perform basic handyman services at a Seniors home
• Mow a lawn / Pick up leaves
• Bookkeeping duties (2 hours per week)
• Social Media (3 hours per week)
• Financial supporters who will contribute $50 - $100 per month

Click here to become a monthly financial supporter

BSBAC delivers hot, nutritious meals Monday through Friday to various parts of Western Comal County.

Frozen meals can also be delivered for the weekend or holidays.

To qualify you must:

• live in our service area, which is part of western Comal County, and
• be 60 years of age or older, and
• be unable to prepare a meal or have one prepared, and
• be homebound.

Others with special needs may be eligible if funding is available or they are unable to go to a senior nutrition center for lunch.

To apply for home-delivered meals, contact Jean Larson.

Twice a month (every other Thursday) approximately $80-100 worth of canned food, bread, dessert, non-perishables and produce are delivered to hundreds of families and individuals in need by family mentors from our outreach partners.

Families.

Free to families.

Nutritious, bountiful lunches are prepared each weekday during the summer and school breaks. Each weekend food bag consists of 4 meals and a variety of snacks. Throughout the school year, the bags are delivered to children enrolled in the Kendall County Head Start program. During the summer break, the bags are delivered to children participating in the Summer Lunch Program.?

Meeting place:

                   Omega Retreat Center
                   Sophia Center, Room 5
                   316 W Highland Drive
                   Boerne 78006

Must reside in BISD area, or participate in Head Start.

Free for children and families in Reduced/Free Nutrition Program.

Mission work is one of the founding principles of our church, and there are many ways to get involved!

Little Free Food Pantry

What started as the Eagle Scout project of one of our highschoolers has grown into a service that provides critical aid to our community. Our Little Free Pantry makes deliveries every other week to several families in the area, and also keeps a pantry stocked in our partnered Hill Country MHDD clinic for clients.

Act II Sewing

Act II Sewing is a group of ladies who meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 9:30am to sew for a good cause. Some of their regular projects are stuffed animals for St. Judes Children’s Home, Presbyterian Children’s Home, and other organizations and occasions where children might need a bit of comfort.

They make clothing protectors, lap blankets, shawls, walker bags, and more for nursing home residents, hospice patients, and Meals on Wheels recipients. You don’t need to be skilled at sewing to help make these projects and more, just come by and lend a hand.

Kids Hope

Kids Hope is a national non-profit organization that partners young students in need with mentors from a local church, who provide a one-on-one relationship dedicated to supporting their growth.

Mentors meet with their student once a week for one hour, helping with homework, providing a listening ear, and being a steady source of support. Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church has been partnered with Kids Hope since 1998. If you would like to be a mentor or a prayer partner, please contact us to learn more.

Partnership with Mental Health Clinic

We are partnered with the Canyon Lake branch of the Hill Country Mental Health and Develpomental Disability Center. The fully staffed mental health clinic operates full-time out of our Fellowship Hall and provides mental health, individual developmental disability, and substance abuse services to our community. If you are in need or wish to learn more, go to their website at https://www.hillcountry.org/services/canyon-lake-mh-center/ or call their office at 830-387-5995.

Donations

In addition to all of the more hands on work we do at Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church, we make donations to many organizations in our local community and the larger world. These include, but are not limited to:

• CRRC Food Pantry
• John Knox Ranch
• Canyon Lake Meals on Wheels
• Mission Presbytery
• Mo-Ranch
• Presbyterian Church USA
• Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
• CARE of Canyon Lake

Click here to Donate

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The CRRC provides vital social services to the residents of Canyon Lake.

Food Pantry

We provide food and other necessities to those in need. We are a client choice pantry which allows our neighbors the choice of food items their families would prefer. Eligibility is determined by The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) guidelines. CRRC is an equal opportunity provider.

Pantry Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Crisis Assistance

We provide short-term financial assistance toward rent or utilities (electricity, water, or propane) to residents of Canyon Lake.

By appointment Monday - Thursday.

Call for appointment and information about the documents to bring with you.

Durable Medical Equipment

We provide gently used, non-powered durable medical equipment including wheelchairs, transport chairs, walkers, bedside commodes, shower chairs and more, as available.

Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Must be members of Canyon Lake TX, Comal County or within our area.

Please call the office to verify elegibility and requirement

People interested in receiving meals may call 432-837-5402 or go to the Sunshine House between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM Monday through Friday. Christina, the client advocate, will help with the paperwork required for enrollment. 

The Marfa Nutrition Center provides a free daily congregate lunch to participating, qualifying (AAA) clients who are 60 years of age and over. The Center also distributes and delivers free meals to qualifying homebound seniors through its Meals on Wheels program.

Additional outreach and programming efforts are underway this year to expand the Center's offerings.

To join the meal program or to become involved as a volunteer, please contact us by email or phone.