Dr. YOLANDA SANTOS
Director of Planning, Good Samaritan Center

Dr. Yolanda Santos is the Director of Strategic Planning for the Good Samaritan Center, an established social service agency in San Antonio.

The first two photos were taken at her home in the neighborhood of the Little Flower Church. She grew up here and moved back to the same home where she was raised when her mother recently remarried. Santos says she "has now come full circle back to my roots."

Dr. Santos (left) earned a Master's in Social Work from the Worden School of Social Work at Our Lady of the Lake University in 1990; she received a Ph.D. in community health from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Dr. Yolanda Santos in her office at the Good Samaritan Center.

Yolanda Santos proudly stand in front of a large sign commemorating the golden anniversary of the Good Samaritan Center's founding. The center is located in the deep Westside of San Antonio. Established by the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, the center's mission is: "To be a resource for the residents of the neighborhood, encouraging and participating in their efforts to become whole in mind, body, and spirit and to live in harmony with each other and the community."

Yolanda Santos stands before a colorful mural created by a local Chicano artist.

Three girls enter the Good Samaritan Center.

The center's logo. Good Samaritan offers a wide range of programs to the local community including a child development center for infants and after-school care for school-aged children. It also provides comprehensive adult and family services programs.

Mariana Ornelas