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Who Is CARES?

Pastor Raquel Watkins, MA MAHS

New Jerusalem Outreach Ministries

Program Director

Parenting Program

Parents as Teachers

    CARES center has been created by one local passionate Pastor that currently work with our community's most vulnerable population in various fields of services in Bell county and Coryell counties in Texas.

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    The Pastor professes  that the church was the original social agency and a front runner to the needs of the community. She has found in the church there has been identified a persistent gap in coordination and access between our  vulnerable populations and the existing community resources that create health and stability in our beloved countries. She has identified that our low to moderate income families, homeless families, Veterans, Victims of Domestic Violence (and more) are struggling to manage multiple resources because coordination of services, information, time management, access by transportation and internet are a struggle.

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    Her answer to this community dilemma is a new concept on existing, effective resources. CARES Center will be a centrally located Resource Center for the most commonly needed services, permitting direct access to multiple programs with supportive case management.

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