Presa Community Center
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Mission Statement
Presa Community Center improves lives by providing access to needed resources and tools for social and personal transformation.
About This Cause
Since our humble beginnings in 1974, the Presa Community Center has grown a great deal- from a small agency in an old schoolhouse with one station wagon and two staff, to now having a much larger home base that we are using every inch of, 29 staff members, and a small fleet of 11 vans and buses, touching lives all over San Antonio. Our mission is to work with individuals and families in becoming self-sufficient community members. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit agency serving Bexar County. Presa offers a variety of programs serving seniors, youth, families and individuals, taking a comprehensive approach to working with those who seek our services. Our Center is located in an historically underserved community, and truly makes a difference one person at a time, one day at a time. The Presa Community Center Senior Program serves an average of 200 low income seniors daily, through a variety of programming and services offered at the center and throughout Bexar County. In addition to the eighty elderly citizens who attend the center every day for companionship, activities and a hot meal, there are another fifty seniors in the immediate neighborhood receive a hot meal delivered to their door. Presa’s elderly transportation program provides 20,000 door to door rides to seniors and persons with disabilities who utilize the service to get to dialysis, chemotherapy and doctor’s appointments and to do grocery shopping. All of these constituents are able to enjoy arts & crafts, dances, exercise, and workshops about a variety of relevant topics made available through Center staff or partners who come in to visit with them. The Presa Community Center’s youth division provides after school care during the school year, plus an eight week Summer Fun Program with field trips, educational opportunities, and a growing sports program. Through our youth program, participants are afforded an opportunity to develop life-long friendships. Presa also serves youth and their families through staff members stationed in several neighborhood schools and provision in those schools of workshops and educational programs that are available to any interested community member.