Bill Text: TX SR143 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Recognizing the Endeavors Veteran Wellness Center for its service to disabled veterans and their families.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-02-07 - Reported enrolled [SR143 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR143-Introduced.html
| 2023S0102-1 02/07/23 | ||
| By: Campbell | S.R. No. 143 | |
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| WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas is pleased to | ||
| recognize the Endeavors Veteran Wellness Center in San Antonio | ||
| for improving the lives of disabled veterans and their families; | ||
| and | ||
| WHEREAS, Endeavors is a faith-based nonprofit that was | ||
| founded as San Antonio Urban Ministries by inner-city churches in | ||
| 1969; renamed in 2018, the center advocates for a holistic | ||
| approach to veteran integration and reincorporation into civil | ||
| society; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The center has done much to support children, | ||
| families, veterans, survivors of natural disasters, and people | ||
| struggling with mental illness by offering them a host of | ||
| physical, emotional, and mental wellness services, including | ||
| family counseling, crisis intervention, group therapy, parenting | ||
| classes, fitness programs, child care, and life skills and | ||
| vocational training; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Endeavors partners with governmental agencies | ||
| and national and local organizations to address homelessness, | ||
| child abuse, and unemployment within the veteran population; | ||
| Endeavors' Veteran Supportive Services offers homelessness | ||
| prevention and rapid rehousing, and in 2021, the agency opened | ||
| the Veteran Wellness Center in San Antonio, a first-of-its-kind | ||
| care clinic that addresses all aspects of health; and | ||
| WHEREAS, During the COVID-19 pandemic, Endeavors and other | ||
| support organizations established two emergency centers in El | ||
| Paso that served as points of entry for a network of area | ||
| shelters; the center secured a 50 percent funding increase for | ||
| COVID-impacted veterans and provided housing assistance to 200 | ||
| clients in Houston who lost housing as a result of the pandemic; | ||
| and | ||
| WHEREAS, In its 50 years of existence, Endeavors has | ||
| served nearly 30,000 clients in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, | ||
| and Puerto Rico and has empowered countless people to become | ||
| integrated individuals who provide for their families and | ||
| contribute to their communities; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 88th | ||
| Legislature, hereby commend Endeavors Veteran Wellness Center on | ||
| its exceptional service to vulnerable people in crisis and extend | ||
| to all those associated with this noteworthy organization | ||
| sincere best wishes for continued success; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for | ||
| Endeavors as an expression of high regard from the Texas Senate. | ||
