Central Texas Life Care

Central Texas Life Care has a program called Material Assistance Program. It is an education-based system of earning the things you need for your baby. Mommy Money and Daddy Dollars are earned by keeping an appointment with a peer counselor who will take you through a parenting lesson. The lessons are taught through a series of videos and worksheets that cover everything from pregnancy to newborn care. During your appointment you usually watch a video, then go over a worksheet and discuss the lesson together. You can earn even more by completing homework. 

During these lessons you earn Mommy Money and Daddy Dollars, which you use to “purchase” needed baby items from our Baby Boutique. The MAP program has many lessons for you to work from, and lessons are individually tailored to each person’s need. By participating, you could earn enough to have everything you will need for you and your baby. You may also continue to earn Mommy Money and Daddy Dollars for your baby to purchase diapers, clothes, and other items even after your baby is born. For more information please visit: https://txlifecare.org/ 

Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) 

The program helps children with special healthcare needs. The program assists with medical, dental, mental health,vision, special medical equipment and supplies, family support services, community services and case management.
Eligibility: Must live in Texas, 20 or younger or any age with a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. Has an income level at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level.Has a medical condition that is expected to last at least one year. Will limit one or more major life activities. Requires a higher level health care. Has physical symptoms. Having only a mental, behavioral or emotional condition, or a delay in development won’t qualify)

Free Health Screenings

 Central Texas Medical Center hosts free glucose and blood pressure screenings every Wednesday in the CTMC  lobby from 9am-10am. Location: 1301 Wonder World Drive, San Marcos TX. 

Central Texas Medical Center

  • CTMC Hosts FREE glucose and blood pressure screenings every Wednesday in the lobby from ​9-10 am. CTMC also hosts a variety of informative classes related to pregnancy and motherhood. Click here to view upcoming events and classes hosted by CTMC: https://www.ctmc.org/education-events/class-event-calendar

The Scheib Center 

The Scheib Center provides mental health and mental disability services to residents in San Marcos and Hays County, mainly to those without insurance and those on Medicaid. Their two service areas are Mental Health Services and services to those with mental disabilities.The Scheib Center employs psychiatrists, psychologists, case workers, and law enforcement. Clients receive medical care, counseling, and attend peer groups. The Center also employs the Hays County Mobile Crisis Outreach Team, a collaboration of law enforcement and mental health counselors who intervene in crisis situations involving mental health. No one is denied services because of lack of insurance or an inability to pay. They are also mandated to accept any new patient without an appointment. Click here to visit the Scheib Center online: http://www.scheibcenter.org

Connections Individual & Family Services in Caldwell County

Connections provides services to empower youth, connect families and build futures. If you are a resident of Caldwell County, Connections provides services for enhancing youth resiliency and counseling for children, teens and families. Counseling is free and those who can qualify should have children 0-17 years old who are not receiving formal services from juvenile probation and are not involved with Child Protective Services due to abuse and neglect.

Live Oak Health Partners Community Clinic

The Live Oak Community Clinic is open Monday- Friday from 8am-5pm. 
Communicare Behavioral Health Services: Behavioral Health Services provide care that are limited to patients that can be assisted by out-patient psychiatric and counseling treatment. Communicare offers the following scope of services in our Behavioral Health Program: 
  • Anxiety / Depression 
  • Adjustment Disorders to Major Life Stressors 
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children (2 to 18) and associated problems (Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Insomnia) 
  • Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder in adults who have transferred from our child behavioral health program 
  • Tobacco cessation 
  • Emotional Difficulties secondary to a general medical condition 
  • Schizophrenia and other Psychotic disorders, excluding patients on injectable antipsychotics or Clozaril 
  • Bipolar Disorders Type I or II 
  • Eating disorders – Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia 
  • Mild to moderate Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual and Development Disability ​
Due to high demands for this service within the community, they are limited to accepting new patients from internal referrals of our CommuniCare clinicians and the San Antonio Counseling and Behavioral Center. Communicare accepts Medicaid and CHIP plans.  

The Village, San Marcos Texas

Any Baby Can Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) program helps children with developmental delays reach their full potential and increase parent’s skills to support their child. They serve children from birth to 36 months with a developmental delay, medically diagnosed condition, or auditory or visual impairment. In home services include occupational, physical or speech therapy, specialized skills training for parents, home-based medical case management and resource navigation. Hays County is served by Any Baby Can through the Austin office but will be moving to Hays County in January 2019 and will be housed at The Village of San Marcos. The Village will include other services such as: 
  • CFPO - PAL Youth Sports provides a safe environment for civic, athletic, recreational and educational opportunities for youth overseen by Police Officers in an effort to prevent juvenile crime and violence. 
  • Community Action, Inc. provides a wide range of services, including outreach centers, health clinics, child development centers, senior citizen centers, workforce development activities and adult education. 
  • Any Baby Can/Early Childhood Intervention serves families with children (birth to age three) with developmental delays or related medical conditions. 
  • Family Justice Center provides long-term solutions to domestic and violent crime victims. 
  • Women, Infants and Children provides all eligible families the best start for a lifetime of well-being by providing nutritional education and breastfeeding support during the critical states of development.​
For more information on Any Baby Can visit: http://anybabycan.org/resources/ . For more information about The Village visit: http://www.villagecampus.org/home.html 

WIC Breastfeeding Assistance 
Do you and your baby need assistance with breastfeeding? WIC can help with that! Clients receive encouragement and instruction in breastfeeding. In many cases, breastfeeding women are provided breast pumps free of charge. WIC helps clients learn why breastfeeding is the best start for their babies, how to breastfeed while still working, dad's role in supporting breastfeeding, tips for teens who breastfeed, pumping and storing breastmilk, and much more. Breastfeeding Peer Counselors and access to International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) are available to help you. Click Here to view more information: http://www.sanmarcostx.gov/272/Nutrition-Health
Lockhart WIC Clinic:   
512-398-5411 
Mon/Weds 8 am to 7 pm 
Thurs 8 am to 4:30 pm 
Friday 8 am to noon 
Marisela Castellanos 
Peer Counselor 
512-618-5059  
San Marcos WIC Clinic:
512-393-8040 
Mon/Weds 8 am to 4:30 pm 
Tues/Thurs 8 am to 7 pm 
Friday 8 am to noon 
Marisela Castellanos 
Peer Counselor 
512-738-3877 ​
Kyle WIC Clinic:
512-268-0003 
Mon/Weds 8 am to 7 pm 
Tues 8 am to 4:30 pm 
Friday 8 am to noon 
Lyssa Thames 
Peer Counselor 
512-376-1805 

Texas Health Steps 

Texas Health Steps is health care for children birth through age 20 who have Medicaid. Texas Health Steps gives your child free medical checkups starting at birth, and free dental checkups starting at 6 months of age. Checkups can help find health problems before they get worse and harder to treat. Call Texas Health Steps toll-free 1-877-847-8377 (1-877-THSTEPS) or go to www.MyChildrensMedicaid.org to learn more about Medicaid and Texas Health Steps. You should call Texas Health Steps if You: 
  • Need help finding a doctor or dentist. 
  • Need help setting up a checkup. 
  • Have questions about checkups or Texas Health Steps. 
  • Need help getting a ride to a checkup. 
  • Need a case manager to help you find and get other services. ​

​*NOTE: If you are pregnant and 20 and under, transportation and gas vouchers may be available to get you to medical appointments. 

If your infant is covered under Texas Health Steps, you are eligible for a Maternal Post-Partum Depression (PPD) screening during any Texas Health Steps preventive medical checkup or follow-up visit up for your infant until your infant’s first birthday. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that PPD screenings be conducted at the infant’s one-month, two-month, four-month, and six-month checkups.  

Texas STAR Health Plan

Texas STAR Health Plan is a Medicaid managed care program that serves low-income families at no cost to them. You are able to pick a plan that provides Medicaid services and a main doctor that is your point of contact for Medicaid services.  In addition to your main doctor, each plan has a large group of specialists and hospitals that can provide Medicaid services. The Superior Health plan provides pregnant members with a convertible baby car seat for completing the Notification of Pregnancy (NOP) form, completing 1 prenatal visit and going to an educational baby shower. Diaper bag and diapers for pregnant members who complete the NOP form and attend a baby shower class. Up to $150 each year through CentAccount®. This program is for pregnant women who complete prenatal visits, checkups, get a flu shot and agree to receive pregnancy-related text messages. Rewards can be used at many Texas retailers including Walmart. Local contact: Delfina Rodriguez, 512-433-4498, For more information visit:
 https://hhs.texas.gov/services/health/medicaid-chip/programs/star-medicaid-managed-care-program  

Texas Home Visiting Program

There’s a free program called Texas Home Visiting. It’s available in Hays County to help good people be great parents. The program matches your family with a trained home visitor who comes to your home or a convenient location. It also works in communities to strengthen support for all families.
For more information, please visit:

Primary Care Services: MLK Community Health Services, Community
Action Inc. 

Primary Health Care provides health care services for men and women whose family income is 25% to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level and does not have any other type of health insurance. Services include medical visits, limited prescriptions, health screening, monitoring of blood pressure and blood sugar, health risk profile, preventive health education, and other referral services. Some kind of income is required in order to qualify for this program.

Family Planning and Care Services: MLK Community Health Services,
Community Action Inc.

Reproductive Health Care for men and women including a wide variety of birth control methods.  Services include Annual Well Woman exams, Pregnancy Testing, Testing & Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections, including HIV/AIDS, and a variety of other routine lab tests. We now offer Quick Start, a hormonal birth control method prior to getting a physical exam.

Your Texas Benefits 

Learn how state benefit programs help people with little or no money who are in need. 

FamilyWize 

Are you or someone you love struggling to pay for monthly prescriptions? A free discount card from United Way of Hays & Caldwell Counties and FamilyWize can save you money. Distributed through United Way of Hays & Caldwell Counties, the FamilyWize card lowers the cost of medicine by an average of 35% or more for people without insurance or who take medications not covered by their plan. You can use your FamilyWize card every time you need to fill a prescription.  All you have to do is present it at a local pharmacy to get the savings. 

​FamilyWize Discount Prescription cards are distributed through United Way of Hays & Caldwell Counties. Contact them at (512) 353-1420 to get yours. Online Cards can also be obtained and printed online at www.familywize.org by clicking GET YOUR FREE CARD. 
Benefits Include: 
  • Save Up to 75% 
  • Use Immediately 
  • No Paperwork 
  • No Activation 
  • Unlimited Use 
  • Share with Family 
  • Discounts Applied Automatically 
You are eligible for the FamilyWize Discount Prescription Card if: 
  •     You opt out of the medical plan at your employer 
  •     Aren’t eligible for benefits (part-timers and new       
             employees) 
  •     Have HSA and High Deductible Plans 
  •     Need medicine not covered ​
  •     Have a family member without coverage 

Help with Prescription Medications: United Way of Hays & Caldwell
Counties 

Distributed through United Way of Hays & Caldwell Counties, the FamilyWize card lowers the cost of medicine by an average of 35% or more for people without insurance or who take medications not covered by their plan.

​Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Services Program

The Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Services Program helps children with special health-care needs. The program can assist you with Medical, dental and mental health care, Drugs, Special therapies, Case management, Family Support Services, Transportation to health care visits, and Insurance premiums. 
  • The program is available to anyone who lives in Texas, is under 21 years old, who has a certain level of family income, has a medical problem that is expected to last at least 12 months, will limit one or more major life activities, needs more health care than what children usually need, has physical symptoms. (The program does not cover clients with only a mental, behavioral or emotional condition, or a delay in development.)
  • Because the CSHCN Services Program is the payer of last resort, all applicants must also apply for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid.
  • Apply to the CSHCN Services Program
  • Contact the program: 512-776-7355, Email: cshcn@hhsc.state.tx.us

ARCIL, Inc. 

ARCIL assists people with disabilities and their and families with support and resources in the community.

The Pregnancy and Postpartum Health Alliance of Texas

The Pregnancy and Postpartum Health Alliance of Texas provides education and resources necessary for the prevention and treatment of postpartum mood disorders to the professional and public community. Free and low-cost services include:
  • The Psychiatric Voucher Program provides women with a qualified need with a voucher worth up to $500 to subsidize the costs of out-patient psychiatric care.
  • The PPHA Postpartum Doula Program provides low-income women who are experiencing postpartum depression, anxiety and/or OCD with 20 hours of free in-home care.
  • The Therapy Voucher Pilot Program provides low-income women who are experiencing postpartum depression, anxiety and/or OCD with up to 8 sessions of discounted therapy sessions with mental health professionals who are specially trained for working with Perinatal Mood or Anxiety Disorders (PMADs).
  • Find out more about these programs here.

Texas Health and Human Services: Healthy Texas Women Program

The Healthy Texas Women program provides family planning and reproductive health services to eligible women in Texas. These services help women plan for their families, whether it is to achieve, postpone, or prevent pregnancy. These services can have a positive effect on future pregnancy planning and your general health. 

Hays Caldwell Women's Center

Hays Caldwell Women’s Center (HCWC) offers free, short term (up to 6 months) counseling and advocacy services to victims of family violence, dating violence, sexual assault and child abuse who reside in Hays and Caldwell counties. HCWC also educates the community on the primary prevention of sexual assault and parenting. HCWC operates a family violence shelter where victims of family violence may normally stay up to 30 days. HCWC’s Child Advocacy Center serves victims of child abuse.  HCWC also has a Hospital Emergency Advocate Response Team that provides 24 hour crisis response to Hays and Caldwell county hospitals for survivors of sexual assault and family violence.  ​

Hays County Local Health Department

The Hays County Local Health Department is located at 401 (A) Brodway Street, San Marcos Texas, 78666. The following services are provided by Live Oak Health Partners Community Clinic. LOHPCC resides within the Hays County Health Department building. Monday: 8 a.m. to Noon; 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday: 8 a.m. to Noon, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. to Noon; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For more program information call 512-805-5650. 

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