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Texas Health and

Human Services Institute 

Several Santa Maria staff members attended Texas Health and Human Services Institute in Austin, TX.  This four-day conference provides education and training for state agencies, private providers, clinicians, caregivers, and other stakeholders with a vested interest in addressing the intellectual, mental and behavioral health needs of a variety of populations.

Santa Maria’s Mental Health Counselor, Paula Garcia, LPC, LCDC-I, presented at the conference.  She shared Santa Maria’s two generational approach to substance use disorder treatment.  Paula shared how Santa Maria as a substance use disorder treatment provider integrates children into their mother’s recovery journey, both by addressing the immediate impact of substance use and other adverse events on children’s physical and emotional health and by moving upstream to build healthy parent-child attachments and nurturing environments that protect children from the impact of adverse events and foster resiliency. 

ExxonMobil Foundation Community Summer Jobs Program

Meet Lucia Motta, an incoming Senior at Trinity University, majoring in Economics and Spanish.  Lucia seeks opportunities to utilize her academic skills to improve Public Policy and Human Rights for all.  Lucia is spending her summer interning at Satna Maria via the ExxonMobil Foundation Community Summer Jobs Program.

Utilizing her data analysis skills and real-world experience as her sorority’s social service chair, Lucia is creating a comprehensive accounting of Satna Maria’s volunteers, hours spent, and programs served during the 2022/2023 fiscal year.  In addition, she is reviewing Santa Maria’s volunteer sign-in process to offer ideas for improvement. 

Santa Maria is grateful to have been chosen again this year for the ExxonMobil Foundation Community Summer Jobs Program and fortunate to have Lucia as our intern this summer. 

The mission of Santa Maria is to empower women and their families to lead healthy, successful, productive and self-fulfilling lives. 

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