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Towne Twin Village Celebrates One Year of Operations.
Learn about our work and who we serve.
It all started with our mission to initiate and sustain a Permanent Supportive Housing community using Housing First principles for the most marginalized and vulnerable individuals in the San Antonio region.
Towne Twin Village is designed with a foundation of Housing First—Permanent Supportive Housing principles and best practices. It will be a place where each person is valued, knowing they too are deserving of dignity and inclusion. HFCC believes that through serving each other, we may begin to more-deeply connect with our humanity — within ourselves and with each other.
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HFCC primarily serves seniors 50+ years old who are experiencing chronic homelessness and at least one disability. Many have been without housing for several years.
HFCC follows evidenced-based Housing First principles to prioritize housing, safety, and dignity first.
Abundant wrap-around supportive services are provided on-site to help a resident’s house become their home. Services on site range from hot meals at the community center to healthcare at the clinic.
HFCC strives to create an environment where all residents, volunteers, partners, and staff feel a sense of belonging within a welcoming, life-giving, beautiful campus.
Mutual support is provided by using a Serving-Healing approach (equilateral) rather than Fixing-Curing (top-down).
“Fixing and helping create a distance between people, but we cannot serve at a distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected.” — Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
Provide opportunities to newly “re-homed” residents along with those who have never been homeless (PALs = Please Alleviate Loneliness…be a PAL) to live in solidarity and to accompany each other on their mutual, collaborative journey towards the celebration of a purposeful life together.
Fostering a diverse community where everyone — residents, individuals without housing, volunteers, staff, partners, counselors, service providers, neighbors, etc. — is supported in creating and maintaining a compassionate, generative community for the benefit of all.
Build 204 housing units for seniors 50+ who have long histories of homelessness, plus 10 peer and PAL volunteers. 100 Tiny houses, 25 RVs, and 80 efficiency apartments varying in style and layout, each ~400-500 sq ft. All units include an ADA restroom with walk-in shower, kitchenette, living & sleeping areas (either combined or separate rooms), and front porch.
Partner with San Antonio Catholic Worker House to build a community center at Towne Twin Village. Here, CWH will continue its hospitality ministries for residents and unhoused guests alike. Offerings include meals, showers, hygiene supplies, barber, nail care, laundry, postal service, phone, Wi-Fi, movies, games, and more.
Foster development and enhancement of residents' interests, talents, hobbies, and skills to improve their overall personal growth and well-being.
Foster a compassionate supportive community that centers the residents of Towne Twin Village.
Provide temporary housing for unhoused individuals needing a respite from the streets while they recover from a severe health crisis, as well as for those needing a dignified comfortable refuge and hospice care during their final days.
Partner with local volunteer groups to provide unique, non-traditional informal wrap-around supports including companionship, transportation, hospitality events, seasonal social events, birthday parties, movies, games, book clubs, and much more.
Become a catalyst for two-way transformations by helping new residents adjust to becoming “homed” within a community of caring individuals, and help those who have never been homeless to understand, empathize, and companion with those had been without homes for a long time.
Sisters of the Holy Spirit
Mike & Carol Stehling
The Vance Family
Bexar County
City of San Antonio
John & Theresa Bruce
Joan Cheever & Dennis Quinn
Erik Darmstetter
DDM Foundation
Ichthus Foundation
Chris Plauche
Mark & Bebe Wittig
Methodist Healthcare Ministries
San Antonio Housing Trust
TND Family Foundation
Cynthia M. Cano
LaVerne & Jack Dysart
McLovee White Trust
Nancy Moorman
Cliff Waller
Wells Fargo
Westcare Foundation
The Wittig Ohana Hale
Ed Cross
Jennipher Dwyer
Bonnie & Frank Gittinger
Stephen & Patricia Greefkens
HB Foundation
Home Nursing & Therapy Services
Insite Architects
Katherine Kimm
Lynn Powers
Joe & Linda Wittig
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Board Member
Board Member
Beverly is the Chief Officer for Resource Development and Program Support for WestCare Foundation and the Senior Vice President for Texas Operations. The WestCare Foundation operates in 19 States and 3 U.S. Territories to improve behavioral health, empower community residents, and reduce trauma and substance-abuse related community harm.
Beverly has over 30 years of experience in leading and managing public agencies, non-profit organizations, and private companies. She has served in multiple leadership capacities including SAMHSA, Senior Vice President of the United Way of SA, State Director for the Corporation for National and Community Service, and an elected official in Travis County (11 years), and the Board of Directors of the Ella Austin Community Center, National Association of Drug Court Professionals, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), the National Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Higher Education, the Texas Mental Health Association and Texas Task Force for State and Local Drug. The last agency funded the first 12,000 treatment beds in Texas prisons.
She is also honored as the best government grant writer in all of Bexar County.
Board Member
Aaron has a 20+ year history of recurring homelessness. In most instances, he has volunteered in the various shelters in which he has lived and risen to leadership positions.
While living at the Salvation Army he was the van driver that picked up prisoners and transported them to shelters. He was a resident volunteer, chief cook, and driver for CWH for 6 years. His lived experience of homelessness brings a crucial perspective to the Board.
Board Member
Alice has a long history of promoting, developing, and managing affordable housing communities. She is an expert in PSH and has developed hundreds of units for chronically homeless individuals and homeless veterans.
She is also extremely knowledgeable in public financing and funding for affordable housing. She was the lead loan underwriter for LISC initiatives in San Antonio and the finance consultant for the Mayor’s Housing Task Force. She has been the lead consultant for HFCC housing endeavors since 2016.
In 2020, she took the position as the Executive Director of Coachella Valley Housing Coalition in California and joined the HFCC Board.
Board Member
Steve is an accountant with years of experience in trust, individual, and corporate tax preparation, as well as business and estate planning. He also has years of experience as a financial planner with Lincoln until he started WhiteStone Wealth Management, an independent financial planning firm.
Steve provided leadership for Central Catholic High fundraising endeavors and served on Boards in the community, including the San Antonio Area Foundation.
Board Member
Father Markey is a Dominican priest and a Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality at Oblate School of Theology.
He has a long history of fundraising leadership and has served as chair of multiple Capitol and Annual Fundraising campaigns for Oblate, the Peace Education Foundation, and the Southern Dominican Providence and has responsible for raising over $25 million. He has been an active volunteer at CWH and responsible for many new donors.
Board Member
Robert has a long and accomplished history in both in accounting and financial management, as well as mental health and intellectual disabilities. He worked as a senior engagement auditor and risk assessor for over 25 community MHMR Centers in the Texas System. He been on the staff with the Center of Health Care Services, for the last 20 years.
In 2013, he became the Vice President of Finance and provided strategic and tactical planning, especially relating to financing related to $100 million in the Medicaid 1115 Waiver projects.
In 2016, he served as the interim Chief Operating Officer and now serves as the Chief Financial Officer. In this role, he provides leadership and strategic direction. He was the key contributor and negotiator in assisting the Center acquire public conduit debt for the construction of a 90,000 sq ft ($30M) Inner City Clinic.
Secretary-Treasurer
Paul was a professional of 30 years of business management in the family business, Bill Miller’s Barbeque Enterprises. Later he became the co-director of the family real estate enterprise. 17 years later he decided to pursue a master’s degree, and later a Doctorate at Oblate School or Theology. He serves on the Oblate Board and on its Capital Campaign Steering Committee.
He started volunteering at CWH in 2009 and served as the CWH Board President for 3 years. He also founded and directed the Catholic Day Worker ministry (meals to those waiting in day labor lines) and the Tobit Ministry, a garden designated for the burial of individuals who die while being homeless and have no family. He was appointed to the COVID Food Security Stakeholder Advisory Group.
Vice President
Chris has a 40-year history of leadership as Executive Director for several non-profits and a clinic associated with UTHSC. Usually, as the founder of five 501c3s, she has served as the volunteer ED until the agency grows and hires an ED. She also has designed and managed the construction of 6 buildings (> 10,000 sq ft) and 20+ smaller buildings and designed and worked with Marmon and Mok on a 20,000 sq ft clinic, day care, pre-school therapy suite, sick day hospital, office building. In 2005, she transitioned from pediatrics and children with autism/disabilities to non-profits serving adults who were homeless and voluntarily lived in the CWH transitional shelter for 3 years. She is the ED of CWH and the visionary of the TTV housing community. She hopes to live onsite at TTV in solidarity as a PAL.
President
Mark has 40+ years as CEO of a for profit office furniture store that goes far beyond retail. He unceasingly tries to link up good deals with non-profits in need. He has been a volunteer and on the Board of CWH (as President or Vice President) for most of its 35-year history.
He also been very active in the community at large, serving on many Boards (e.g., Carver Center, SAGE, etc.), and initiated a book club that targets topics appropriate for those in leadership executive positions in nonprofit and for-profit organizations.