SA Leaders Recognize Project QUEST for Highest Earnings Impact in U.S. at COPS/Metro Press Conference
November 07, 2024
On October 30th, city officials and business leaders gathered at COPS/Metro's press conference to celebrate the results of a new study showing Project Quest to have “the longest sustained earnings impacts ever found in a U.S. workforce development program,” according to study author Mark...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Leaders Share Stories and West Side Parish History at St. Mary's University
October 22, 2024
On October 4th, current and former COPS/Metro leaders shared stories and history from Westside parishes as part of an event at St. Mary's University sponsored by the St. Mary's University Center for Catholic Studies and the O'Connor Chair for the History of Hispanic Texas...
Read MoreIndependent Study Documents 'Remarkable Gains' by Grads of Project QUEST
October 16, 2024
[Excerpts] Project QUEST has had the ongoing political and community backing of COPS/Metro Alliance... that helped launch the program in 1992 and worked to ensure that Project QUEST has ongoing financial support. Project QUEST’s strategies can and have been replicated in other communities. The...
Read MoreSt. Margaret Mary, COPS/Metro Leverage Commitments on Police Substation
September 15, 2024
After organizing the vote in 2022 to secure the funds necessary to build a new police substation in southeast San Antonio, COPS/Metro leaders at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church hosted a community feedback meeting and leveraged commitments to address homelessness, mental health services, and neighborhood services....
Read More324 Assemble with SAPD Chief & Prepare for December Citywide Action
September 15, 2024
324 COPS/Metro delegates pledged to build an agenda and prepare for Citywide Action on December 8. Leaders from across San Antonio came together to recommit to the parish ID strategy with Chief McManus. See action highlights below: Image Gallery:
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Secures Relocation Assistance for Residents Displaced by Tax-Funded Missions Stadium Downtown
September 12, 2024
COPS/Metro is proud to claim a victory for our community by ensuring community benefits are now part of the partially tax-funded Downtown Missions Stadium project, thus creating a fairer deal for San Antonio residents. “When we look at this experience, we are keenly aware...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Fights for Community Benefits in Missions Baseball Stadium Deal
September 05, 2024
More than a year after closed-door talks began around a proposed stadium that would displace thousands of low-income residents, the City of San Antonio held its first public hearing. COPS/Metro clergy and leaders decried the secrecy of negotiations and displacement of low-income families, while questioning...
Read MoreCommunity Hospital & 'TB Cottages' COPS/Metro Rescued Are Now at Forefront of Fight Against Diabetes
July 27, 2024
The Texas Diabetes Institute - recently cited by the New York Times in a groundbreaking expose of San Antonio's Latino amputation crisis - largely exists thanks to COPS/Metro. During the early 1990s, when the local Lutheran hospital filed for bankruptcy, COPS/Metro built the political will...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro, San Antonio to Distribute 4,000 Gun Lock Boxes on Saturday
June 19, 2024
After COPS/Metro organizing the City of San Antonio's first-ever gun buyback program last year, leaders shifted into the next phase of its local gun safety strategy. [Excerpt] ...the City of San Antonio in partnership with District 3 Councilwoman Phyllis Viagran and COPS...
Read MoreBishop Janak Encourages 150+ Congregational Leaders to Continue Building the Body of Christ
May 05, 2024
On Saturday, May 4-5, more than 150 ministry leaders, women religious, clergy, and seminarians from 31 congregations participated in 'Recognizing the Stranger’ parish leadership development in collaboration with the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The sessions were conducted in English and Spanish and included visitors...
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