Bexar CARES Community Partners

The Bexar CARES system of care is a spectrum of effective, community-based services and support for children and youth with or at risk for mental health or other challenges and their families, that is organized into a coordinated network, builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth, and addresses their cultural and linguistic needs, in order to help them to function better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.

Our Core Values include: 

• Family driven and youth-guided, with the strengths and needs of the child and family determining the types and mix of services and support provided.
• Community based, with the locus of services as well as the system management resting within a supportive, adaptive infrastructure of structures, processes, and relationships at the community level.
• Culturally and linguistically competent, with agencies, programs, and services that reflect the cultural, racial, ethnic, and linguistic differences of the populations we serve to facilitate access to and utilization of appropriate services and support and to eliminate disparities in care.

Bexar CARES Governance Council Members

Executive Council Members

Chair: Shanna Wheeler,  Family Representative

Co-Chair: Charly Risenmay, Family Representative

Secretary: Ingrid Petty,  Kronkosky Charitable Foundation

BCGC Members

Elizabeth Lutz, Health Collaborative

Estella Garza,  San Antonio ISD

Fred Cardenas,  Family Services Association

Dr. George Patrin, Serendipity Alliance,  Family Representative

Kelley Logans-Ali,  Department of Family and Protective Services

Mercedes Bristol, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Coalition, Family Representative

Terri Mabrito,  Voices for Children SA

Terry Wise,  Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph AFB

We love our Bexar CARES community partners! Get to know them and learn more about the resources available to you and your family.