Good Samaritan Community Services

Good Samaritan Community Services
Goal: $1.7 million

Founded immediately after World War II as a soup kitchen, the Good Samaritan Center moved its mission to its present site on the Westside of San Antonio in 1951. Since then, the center has transformed thousands of lives through programs for children, teens, and adults in its neighborhood.  I

t has been the dream and purpose of the diocese for several years to expand the work of the Good Samaritan Center into other areas of the diocese. Fifty five years later, in February of 2006, an opportunity to do just that came to us in the form of a federal grant to work with 6,000 youths in the Rio Grande Valley and to influence their spiritual, educational, and vocational futures. More than just a single center, Good Samaritan Community Services was born, bringing together the existing center in San Antonio and 10 new locations in the Valley. The strategy of Good Samaritan Community Services relies on leveraging our established expertise and track record and replicating our best practices that have been highly successful.

In November of 2006, another federal grant enabled Good Samaritan Community Services to expand its programs into 11 counties in surrounding San Antonio. Good Samaritan Community Servicese is a diocesan ministry that answers Christ's call to help the neediest among us by changing lives through excellent community services to those whom Christ called us to feed, welcome, and clothe. www.goodsamaritancommunityservices.org