{"id":264578,"date":"2025-09-29T19:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264578\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:26:15","slug":"new-healthcare-nonprofit-aims-to-combat-medical-staffing-shortages-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264578\/","title":{"rendered":"New healthcare nonprofit aims to combat medical staffing shortages in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAs the shortage of healthcare workers<\/a> continues to affect medical centers across the United States, cities in Texas have already begun to feel its effects.<\/p>\n

The local impact<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to data from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, the number of Certified Nurse Aids, or CNAs, has declined by 37%<\/a> over the last decade in Bexar County.<\/p>\n

This is an issue that entrepreneur Barb Clapp said she wants to see disappear, as she launched Dwyer Workforce Development<\/a>, or DWD, into the San Antonio area in July 2025.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nationwide nonprofit organization focused on providing career paths to underserved populations in the healthcare industry.<\/p>\n

Aiming for CNA positions, the program has partnered with educational institutions and medical facilities across Bexar County.<\/p>\n

About the organization<\/strong><\/p>\n

Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, Clapp said she saw a need to expand across the country as the shortage of medical workers has increased.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really focusing on communities that need a boost,\u201d Clapp said. \u201cMainly, these are areas that are low-income with not much room for opportunity or growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, DWD has expanded from Maryland into Florida, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Upstate New York, Kansas, cities like Houston, Dallas and Brownsville and now, San Antonio.<\/p>\n

How it works<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clapp said DWD sticks out compared to other development programs because it includes wraparound services<\/a> like emergency funds and utilizes a person-to-person, case management system.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to have these comprehensive services and person-centered case management,\u201d Clapp said. \u201cIt\u2019s the best way to give people a path to generational wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n

To sign up for the program, Clapp said it\u2019s as easy as filling out an application<\/a> on the DWD website.<\/p>\n

From there, participants become Dwyer Scholars and begin a four-step, nonlinear program that guides them through training while beginning their first job as a CNA or other healthcare professional.<\/p>\n

Mapping it out<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the San Antonio area, their biggest education partner is the Southern Careers Institute<\/a>, Clapp said.<\/p>\n

Thus, the inaugural class of around 20 aspiring healthcare workers began their training this summer in the Alamo City.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really starting to dig into San Antonio,\u201d Clapp said.<\/p>\n

In the future, Clapp hopes to continue her expansion, eyeing areas like the Midwest to get even more people opportunities to have successful, rewarding careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to train 100,000 Dwyer Scholars by 2030,\u201d Clapp said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the shortage of healthcare workers continues to affect medical centers across the United States, cities in Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,14206,15980,138212,138210,1184,8622,138211,77401,138214,7202,7203,358,138213,9226,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-264578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-doctors","10":"tag-expansion","11":"tag-healthcare-education-san-antonio","12":"tag-healthcare-san-antonio","13":"tag-medicine","14":"tag-nonprofit","15":"tag-nurse-training-bexar-county","16":"tag-nurses","17":"tag-nursing-school-san-antonio","18":"tag-san-antonio","19":"tag-sanantonio","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-texas-nonprofit","22":"tag-treatment","23":"tag-tx","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}