Fall Vaccine Update – Dr. Junda Woo
By Dr. Junda Woo, Medical Director and Local Health Authority, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District Sandra Zaragoza, Senior Marketing and Communications Specialist, Health Confianza San Antonio, TEXAS — As respiratory virus season approaches, …
Navigating Change Together, Introduction to Fall Newsletter
By Jason Rosenfeld, DrPH, MPH, CHWI, co-director of Health Confianza, director of Global Health, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Hi everyone and welcome to the third installment of our Health Confianza newsletter. As I was reflecting on what I …
Plain Language is Key to Better Health
By Sandra Zaragoza, Sr. Marketing and Communications Specialist, Health Confianza Melanie Stone, DrPH, MEd, Co-director of Health Confianza, Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Director of Community Service Learning, The Universi …
Communicating with Confianza – A Health Literacy ECHO
San Antonio, TEXAS —This fall, Health Confianza is offering “Communicating with Confianza – A Health Literacy ECHO,” a free six-part virtual professional development series on the practical use of health literacy strategies and tools in the workplace. …
Confianza Community Changer – Marissa Gutierrez
Two years ago, Health Confianza’s team met Marissa Gutierrez when she trained as Community Health Club facilitator. Since then, she has led The Untouchables Community Health Club at Southside Lions Senior Center in Southeast San Antonio. Over the years …
Introducing our Health Confianza Ambassadors
San Antonio, TEXAS — This fall, Health Confianza is proud to introduce 15 new Health Confianza Ambassadors trained to help spread the word about preventive health resources in Bexar County, create connections with hard-to-reach populations and serve as …
Protect SNAP Benefits from Fraud
San Antonio, Texas — Health Confianza’s local nonprofit partners are warning the community about a rise in theft related to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits that is affecting Texas families and children. In Texas, more than 1.7 …
Find Back-to-School Vaccines Near You
San Antonio, Texas — Hey Bexar County, don’t let your child fall behind on their vaccines. Take advantage of a number of Back-to-School events that will be providing free or low-cost childhood vaccines at local schools, community centers and nonprofits …
WestCare Foundation’s Summer Extravaganza
San Antonio, Texas — Health Confianza’s partner, the WestCare Foundation, is hosting a Summer Extravaganza summer program for children and teens. It is also co-hosting a mental health symposium in late June, and is capping September with family summit …
Back-to-School Round-Up
San Antonio, Texas — Back-to-school health fairs are a fun way to provide families with the tools they need to stay healthy. Here’s an evolving round-up of upcoming back to school events that include health and community resources. Some may also offer …
YWCA San Antonio’s Next Act: A Telenovela
San Antonio, TEXAS — YWCA San Antonio, a nonprofit focused on empowering girls and women through education, workforce and health programs, is leaning into the drama of Spanish-language telenovelas with its latest educational initiative. Along with its …
Tips for Better Health Talks
San Antonio, Texas — Every day, public health experts and community health workers are having conversations about health with people from different backgrounds and perspectives. Some community members may mistrust the health care and public health sec …
The Sunshine Health Club Zine
Buena Idea: A series where we look to our Community Health Clubs for inspiration and new ways to communicate health. San Antonio, TEXAS — Sunshine Health Club, a Health Confianza Community Health Club located at Sunshine Plaza apartments, is living up …
UT Health San Antonio offers a new CHW Training Center
San Antonio, Texas — A new training center at UT Health San Antonio will offer Texas Department of State Health Services continuing education units (CEUs) for community health workers or promotores/as and continuing health worker instructors. The new c …
Fiesta Flavor Giveaway 2025
San Antonio, Texas — Health Confianza, a county-wide health literacy program focused on improving health outcomes through health literacy and collaboration, is giving away 5 aprons and 5 tortilla warmers to a total of 10 lucky followers on IG and FB in …
Health Confianza Selected for Presidential Award for Team Excellence
San Antonio, TEXAS — Health Confianza, a health literacy program housed at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), was selected for a 2025 Presidential Excellence Award for Staff Team Excellence. A committee o …
Buena Idea: Let’s Learn to use an Air Fryer
Community Health Club discussions lead to many great “a-ha” moments. In the spirit of club knowledge sharing, we are starting a series called “Buena Idea,” looking at some of the smart solutions and practical ideas that our club facilitators and member …
Free CHW Training Series
San Antonio, TEXAS — The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) and its partners are offering free continuing education for Community Health Workers. To register, see below or click here.
Community Health Clubs Infographic
San Antonio, Texas — Health Confianza’s Community Health Club program has been running in Bexar County for a little more than three years. We surveyed our club members to gain insights into the impact this peer-to-peer learning model is having in our c …
Pro Tips for How to Save on Groceries
At our Community Health Clubs, facilitators take relatable problems like high food costs, and turn them into an opportunity to share ideas and resources. That’s exactly what Marissa Gutierrez, a Community Health Club facilitator who works for the city …
Mayor’s Fitness Council honors Health Confianza
San Antonio, TEXAS — During the 15th annual Mayor’s Fitness Council Breakfast on Dec. 11, the council honored Jason Rosenfeld with its 2024 Spirit of Service Award and Health Confianza with its 2024 Healthy Champion Award. The Mayor’s Fitness Council ( …
A Brief Intro to the 5Ts of the Teach Back Method
This article was co-authored and reviewed by Dr. Melanie Stone, DrPH, MEd, CHWI. San Antonio, Texas — Every health care worker wants their patients and clients to leave an appointment recalling the conversation and knowing what steps to take next. Un …
Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes
Scroll down for six healthy Thanksgiving recipes, from dessert to main and sides and a turkey. Cinnamon baked pumpkin: servings 10, calories: 106, fat:3g, protein:1g (Dessert) Recipe found on: https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/259396/cinnamon-baked-p …
Create your own In-house Community Health Worker Apprenticeship Program
The South Texas Community Health Workers Workforce Preparedness Collaborative (STCWPC), an initiative led by UT Health San Antonio, is celebrating the first community health worker apprentices to graduate from its program in South Texas during National …
UT Health San Antonio awarded $9.9 million in county funds targeting substance use, behavioral health and long COVID
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 6, 2024 – Bexar County awarded The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) three grants totaling $9.9 million in federal coronavirus relief bill funding to improve access to health care and cre …
Commentary: From the fringe to the mainstream: building the community health workforce
Courtesy San Antonio Express News The key to unlocking improved health outcomes in the United States has been in our hands for hundreds of years: community health workers. Also known as community outreach workers, patient navigators, health educators, …
Health Confianza receives NACCHO Award
San Antonio, TEXAS — The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) selected Health Confianza and the City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health) with its Promising Practice Award for their work to improve hea …
Two-minute Reads on Health Literacy and Planetary Health
San Antonio, Texas — Melanie Stone, director of Community Service Learning at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and co-director of Health Confianza, recently spoke with The School of Public Health at UT Health San Antonio about …
Club Spotlight: Grupo Nueva Vida
San Antonio, Texas — When Guadalupe Campos and Miguel Padilla arrive at Family Service’s The Neighborhood Place in San Antonio’s Westside, they have homemade food in a crockpot, fruit and snacks. With warm smiles, Campos and Padilla turn a classroom sp …
Club Spotlight: Advocates for Salud!
San Antonio, Texas — As soon as Abraham Baistra, a student at Cast MED High School, heard about the new Community Health Club at his school he was curious. CAST MED puts an emphasis on project-based learning, medical and biomedical education, college p …
Finding Your Tribe (Gente)
A collection of stories about finding preventive health knowledge, collective wisdom and social connection at Community Health Clubs in San Antonio. San Antonio — On a weekday morning a group of women from Harlandale, an economically-disadvantaged com …
Health Confianza teams up with KLRN’s (PBS) The Healthy Kids Project
In collaboration with KLRN Public Television’s Healthy Kids Project, Jason Rosenfeld, DrPH, MPH, of Health Confianza delivered a lesson on common illnesses and the importance of hand washing in keeping our children and families healthy. Hand washing is …
Health Confianza Introduces Long Covid Resource Page
Four years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, an estimated 23 million Americans are living with long Covid, which is defined as the health issues that continue or emerge after the initial COVID infection, and that persist for four or more weeks …
CSL Conference: Learn How Public Health and Our Planet’s Health is Intertwined
San Antonio, Texas — The 17th Annual Community Service Learning Conference — “One Planet. One Health. We are all connected.”— is pleased to host Teddie M. Potter, clinical professor and director of planetary health at the University of Minnesota School …
Three Things to Know, Three Resources
San Antonio — Don’t forget to keep on top of your and your family’s health this holiday season. Below are three things to know and three resources for a healthier winter and start to the new year. Three Things to Know One: RSV, Flu and COVID-19 Move T …
Videos: We are Health Confianza – Somos Health Confianza
Health Confianza, a county-wide health literacy initiative, is focused on creating a more informed, confident and healthier community, using health literacy as a tool. To get to know Health Confianza better, we’ve created a YouTube playlist with short …
Commentary: San Antonio, what are your ideas to reverse loneliness?
This commentary first appeared in the San Antonio Express News on Nov. 17th San Antonio — Nothing brings San Antonians out of their homes like Fiesta in the spring or the arrival of the Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama. We love to get together, yet many suffer …
Update on RSV Vaccine from a Pediatrician and Mom
As a pediatrician and a mom, I am very happy to share that parents and doctors have new tools to protect our kids from RSV. RSV is a virus, a tiny germ that causes cough and fever. Almost every child catches RSV at some point. But for little babies, RS …
Health Confianza debuts Wellnesscultura.org
Health Confianza debuts Wellnesscultura.org during Health Literacy Month San Antonio — October is Health Literacy Month and Health Confianza, a community-wide health literacy initiative, has introduced wellnesscultura.org, an online resource with prev …
Health Confianza Socks Sweepstakes
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Health Confianza, a community-wide health literacy project focused on advancing health equity in San Antonio, is giving away 30 pairs of Health Confianza socks to a total of 30 lucky followers on IG, FB and Snapchat in a random dra …
SAISD Approves Health Confianza Training and Curriculum
San Antonio — The San Antonio Independent School District’s board gave Health Confianza, a community-wide health project, approval to begin offering its health literacy training and curriculum at SAISD schools. Health Confianza will start by providing …
Health Confianza program unites local organizations to improve health literacy in San Antonio
San Antonio — Health Confianza’s Melanie Stone and Empower House’s Angelita Negrón spoke with “Fronteras,” a Texas Public Radio show, on the topic of health equity and Health Confianza’s Pledge Program. Here’s an excerpt from the show: Making informed …
10 Organizations Join Health Confianza’s Health Literacy Pledge Program
Pledge Program News
10 organizations join Health Confianza’s Health Literacy Pledge Program SAN ANTONIO – Health Confianza, a communitywide effort providing health literacy training and education to the community, professionals and organizations, has welcomed 10 local org …
Health Confianza Feature
SAN ANTONIO (May 13, 2022) — A stalwart team at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is engaging health care providers, community members and organizations to improve health literacy and increase the publ …