Program areas at Presa Community Service Center
Transportation program provides dispatch and transportation services for medical appointments, dialysis appointments, chemotherapy appointments and grocery shopping for low income senior citizens and persons with disabilities. In 2022 we provided transportation services to 417 clients with over 15,134 one way trips.
Youth programs provide social development for youth and stresses prevention of delinquency and substance abuse, while promoting educational opportunities and providing adult-supervised recreational activities. The youth program also provides meals for children after school and during the summer via the san antonio food bank's kid cafe. Services were provided to 103 youths throughout the year.
The social services program helps individuals and families in crisis by providing emergency food and clothing assistance, baby formula, and usda commodities. Emergency food and clothing was provided to 4,497 individuals.
Other program services - the nutrition program provides senior citizens with well-balanced hot meals five days a week and monthly commodities of food. This program also enhances social interaction through field trips and arts and crafts activities and computer classes. Services were provided to 46 senior adults. The financial self sufficiency & chw program provides one on one counseling for individuals seeking employment and resume development. The program offers financial literacy classes that include first time homebuyer classes, a "how to" course on establishing good credit, a "how to" course on banking and budgeting, and work force development. The financial literacy program provides volunteer income tax return services during tax season and smart money courses throughout the year. Presa completed 1,393 tax returns for the Community members.