Southside Center has been working with Olivia and her family for over two years on a wide range of issues that have come up. Initially, Olivia reached out to the bilingual mental health department after a Spanish-speaking nun at her church referred her to our program. Her daughter, Jasmin, was suffering...

“Marty,” an Army Veteran, single mother, and hard worker at a minimum wage job, came to Catholic Legal Assistance Ministries (CLAM) because she was unable to resolve several old traffic tickets due to lack of funds. These had caused her license to be suspended for over ten years, creating great hardship for her...

“Mrs. H” came to the Catholic Legal Assistance Ministry (CLAM) for help when the family home where she had lived with her mother was slated to be sold at a mortgage foreclosure sale after her mother passed. After the passing of her mother, Mrs. H discovered that the home’s mortgage had a $83,000...

The Southside location of St. Francis Community Services has finally moved in to its new, permanent home on the campus of St. John the Baptist Parish! This new space allows us to serve more clients than we have ever have before. This year we have more than 150 families to adopt...

A story from Southside Center teacher, Liliana de la Garza, as featured in the St. Francis Community Services 2016 Annual Report As the teacher of the youth program no other change has compared to that of Jorge, a student in our 3rd-5th grade program. This young man is ten...