{"id":57600,"date":"2025-07-11T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57600\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:10:11","slug":"communities-in-schools-celebrates-40-years-serving-bexar-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57600\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities in Schools celebrates 40 years serving Bexar County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cissa.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Communities in School of San Antonio <\/a>is celebrating serving Bexar County and surrounding communities for over four decades in August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The local impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The national nonprofit began in San Antonio in 1985, said Jenee Gonzales, chief development and communications officer of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we first started 40 years ago, we were only in one district,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cNow we\u2019re in 14 districts and over 140 schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Communities in Schools directly partners with local school districts to provide students and families with mentors that have experience in social work and other associated fields, Gonzales told Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur role is to ensure that students have support outside the classroom for any needs or complexities that they or their families are dealing with,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s happening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, Communities in School is taking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/stuffthebus.cissa.org\/event\/2025stuffthebusschoolsupplydrive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff the Bus School Supply Drive<\/a> for the upcoming school year, according to Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur big annual initiative this year is our school supply drive,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>Donations from the general public will be accepted at H-E-B locations across the San Antonio metro area on August 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., according to the drive\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/stuffthebus.cissa.org\/event\/2025stuffthebusschoolsupplydrive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communities in School of San Antonio is celebrating serving Bexar County and surrounding communities for over four decades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,18485,7288,10180,11110,8622,7202,7203,11645,42119,42120,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-57600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anniversary","10":"tag-bexar-county","11":"tag-donations","12":"tag-mentorship","13":"tag-nonprofit","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-school","17":"tag-school-supplies","18":"tag-social-work","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114836184994206162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600","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=57600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}