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Monday 9am - 6pm Tuesday 9am - 6pm Wednesday 9am - 6pm Thursday 9am - 6pm Friday 9am - 6pm

Empower House

Transforming Communities through Women and Girls. Our programs reach over 3,500 women, girls and families each year.

Empower House SA (formerly The Martinez Street Women’s Center) is in its 22nd year serving San Antonio’s East, West, and South community. Our Community Health Promotora Program strengthens families by increasing access to preventative health services, facilitating referrals to basic needs resources and enhancing the knowledge and awareness of health issues in our community. Through our Girl Zone Program (after school sessions and Summer Camp) we enhance academic potential, nurture high self-esteem, and support the healthy development of girls age 11-18. We provide critical services, including a FREE Breast Cancer Clinic and FREE after school and summer camp for low-income families in San Antonio’s East and South East community.

01/24/2026

❄️ ALERTA DE CONGELAMIENTO | CENTROS DE CALENTAMIENTO ABIERTOS ❄️

Familia de San Antonio, el clima frío puede ser peligroso. Si tú o alguien que conoces necesita un lugar cálido y seguro, desliza este post para ver los centros de calentamiento y refugios nocturnos abiertos en la ciudad y el Condado de Bexar.

📞 ¿Necesitas ayuda con transporte o disponibilidad?
Llama al 311 o al 210-207-1799 para apoyo en tiempo real.

Por favor guarda este post, compártelo y revisa cómo están tus vecinos, especialmente personas mayores y miembros de la comunidad sin hogar. El calor salva vidas. La comunidad salva vidas. 🤍

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01/24/2026

❄️ WARMTH IS COMMUNITY. COMMUNITY IS SURVIVAL. ❄️

Cold weather is here and resources are available.
👉 Visit our social media pages for up-to-date warming center locations, shelter information, and community resources across San Antonio and Bexar County.

Please share this post, save it, and check on your neighbors, especially elders and unhoused community members. Together, we keep each other safe. 🤍

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❄️ EL CALOR ES COMUNIDAD. LA COMUNIDAD ES SUPERVIVENCIA. ❄️

El clima frío ya llegó y hay recursos disponibles.
👉 Visita nuestras redes sociales para obtener información actualizada sobre centros de calentamiento, refugios y recursos comunitarios en San Antonio y el Condado de Bexar.

Por favor comparte esta publicación, guárdala y revisa cómo están tus vecinos, especialmente personas mayores y miembros de la comunidad sin hogar. Juntos nos cuidamos. 🤍

01/24/2026

❄️ FREEZE ALERT | WARMING CENTERS OPEN ❄️

San Antonio fam, cold weather can be dangerous. If you or someone you know needs a warm, safe place to go, swipe through this post for open warming centers and overnight shelters across the city and Bexar County.

📞 Need help finding transportation or availability?
Call 311 or 210-207-1799 for real-time support.

Please save this post, share it, and check on your neighbors, especially elders and unhoused community members. Warmth saves lives. Community saves lives. 🤍

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01/23/2026

🏀 Girls Got Game Spring Break Camp Caption

This spring break, we’re building confidence, strength, and leadership. 💥
Girls Got Game is a FREE sports and enrichment camp for girls ages 11–18 with no additional costs.

🗓 March 9–12 (Monday–Thursday)
⏰ 8 AM – 3 PM
📍 Lockwood Park | 810 N. Olive

🏀⚽🏐 From basketball and soccer to yoga, cycling, and flag football
🥗 Cooking & nutrition workshops
🤝 Team-building + leadership development
🌱 Field trips and fun all week long

Spots are limited, scan the QR code to register today!
Because when girls have access, they rise. ✨

01/23/2026

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Love looks like taking care of yourself and your community. 💗
Join us for a Valentine STI Testing Event with FREE, rapid testing in a welcoming, judgment-free space.

🗓 Monday, February 9, 2026
⏰ 11 AM – 1 PM
📍 200 Donaldson Ave., San Antonio, TX 78201

✨ Rapid HIV, Syphilis & Hep C testing
✨ Free contraception
✨ No appointment needed
✨ To-go lunch, drinks, and goodies included 🍕

Bring a friend, come on your lunch break, or just stop by. Your health deserves a little love. 💌
Questions? Drop them below or DM us.

01/20/2026

🗣️ Community matters. Voices matter. Presence matters.

On January 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM, San Antonio City Council will hold a special session to discuss SAPD’s cooperation with federal agencies, including ICE.

Decisions made in this room affect immigrant families, community trust, and how safe our neighbors feel in their own city.

📍 City Council Chambers
114 W Commerce St, San Antonio, TX 78205

You don’t have to be an expert to show up. You don’t have to say everything perfectly. Being present is powerful.

💬 Comment below if you plan to attend or want info on how to participate.
📌 Save & share to help keep our community informed.

01/20/2026

What is a Community Circle?
It’s a space to slow down, listen deeply, and be held in community.
In this reel, our Circle Keeper Deanna Santiago shares how circles create room for honesty, healing, and collective wisdom.

We’re opening our first virtual circle of the year, centered on Revolutionary Sisterhood. A space for connection, reflection, and showing up for one another with intention.

Curious about taking part?
💬 Comment below if you’re interested, and we’ll share next steps.
Because transformation doesn’t happen alone. It happens in circle.

01/16/2026

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
Join us for Agents of Change, a high-energy night of poetry, purpose, and people power. This special event is a collaboration between Empower House and The Carver, bringing together voices that challenge, inspire, and move us toward collective action.

🗓 January 16
⏰ Doors open at 6:30 PM
📍 The Little Carver | 226 N. Hackberry

Expect bold performances, powerful storytelling, and a room full of change-makers ready to imagine what’s possible.
This message will not self-destruct—but it will linger with you.

🎤 Many voices. One movement.

01/15/2026

✨ Final Agent of Change Spotlight: Alejandra “Mera Mera” Sánchez Alanís ✨

Translingual poet. Visual artist. Educator. Community builder.
Alejandra “Mera Mera” Sánchez Alanís creates work that lives at the intersection of language, body, and ancestral memory. Drawing from years of teaching poetry in Mexico, her multidisciplinary practice weaves spoken word and visual poetics into pieces that move like color across the page and the body.

As the host of Plática y Poetics, Alejandra uplifts q***r, migrant, and BIPOC artists through dialogue, storytelling, and radical imagination—turning art into a living bridge between people and possibility.

This event is proudly presented as a collaboration between Empower House and the Carver Community Cultural Center, bringing together community, culture, and creative resistance for DreamWeek.

📍 The Little Carver | 226 N. Hackberry
🗓 January 16
🚪 Doors open at 6:30 PM | Program until 8:30 PM

Join us as we close out Agents of Change with art that remembers, resists, and reimagines. 🌱🔥

01/15/2026

✨ Program Highlight: Empower Parents ✨

Empower Parents offers seminars, discussion groups, and 8-week classes designed to support families at the root. This program raises awareness around family violence while equipping parents with practical skills and strategies to build healthy, life-giving relationships with their children.

Grounded in care, education, and community, Empower Parents creates space for growth, connection, and lasting change—for parents and the families they nurture.

01/13/2026

✨ Agent of Change spotlight: Mecca M. Miles ✨

Black. Q***r. Brilliant.
Mecca M. Miles is a San Antonio–rooted writer and spoken word poet whose work cuts clean and lands deep. Published widely and featured on Button Poetry, Mecca has competed nationwide and carries titles earned the hard way, including 2024–2025 San Antonio Poetry Grand Slam Champion.

Her words hold history, resistance, tenderness, and truth, all delivered with a presence that commands the room and invites us to listen closer.

Catch Mecca live as part of Agents of Change during DreamWeek.

📍 The Little Carver
🗓 January 16
🚪 Doors open at 6:30 PM | Program until 8:30 PM

Come witness poetry that moves people and makes room for change. 🌱🔥

01/12/2026

✨ Introducing our next Agent of Change: Mandy Lynn ✨

Writer. Educator. Theater artist. Open mic host. Mother of five.
Mandy Lynn brings her whole self to the work and the mic.

She has represented San Antonio on eight national slam poetry teams, using art as a tool for truth, healing, and resistance. Through poetry, performance, and punk protest, Mandy advocates fiercely for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. When she’s not hosting open mics or teaching, she’s holding it down on bass and backup vocals for The Guillotinas, a femme-forward protest band shaking the walls.

Mandy also serves as the Public Class Coordinator for Gemini Ink, helping make creative writing accessible to our community, because stories deserve room to breathe.

📍 January 16th | The Little Carver
🚪 Doors open at 6:30 PM

Come witness revolutionary storytelling, radical care, and art that moves with purpose. This is one you don’t want to miss. 🌱🔥

Address

801 N. Olive Street
San Antonio, TX
78202

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+12109089772

Website

http://empowerhousesa.org/, http://bit.ly/EHWorkshops, http://bit.ly/EHeventspage, https://youtu.be/zUspP1yYv2Y?si=hHz4C

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