Founded in the 1940’s, we’re proud to support Brother Bill’s Helping Hand and their hands-on, life-changing programs that promote wellness, nutrition, and mental health in our communities.
Diabetes Grocery Store Sessions—Teaching families how to read food labels, spot hidden sugars, and make informed choices for long-term diabetes prevention and management.
Family Cooking Classes—Bringing generations together to prepare healthy meals, learn new kitchen skills, and strengthen bonds around the dinner table.
Monthly Spanish Mental Health Talks—Free Facebook Live sessions with licensed counselors offering guidance on emotional wellness and stress management, making mental health support accessible for all.
In addition, their key programs include:
Grocery store
West Dallas is considered a ‘food desert’, which means it is a low-income area where a substantial number of residents don’t have access to a supermarket or grocery store. The grocery store at Brother Bill’s Helping Hand is intended to help alleviate hunger for low-income neighbors with healthy nourishing food. On Wednesday and Thursday mornings, as well as one Thursday evening and one Saturday morning each month, neighbors have access to the store to shop for their families. Approximately 300 families come for groceries each week. Last year, the grocery store served over 1.2 million pounds of food.
COMMUNITY HEALTH Clinic
West Dallas has one of the highest uninsured rates in the City of Dallas, making it challenging for neighbors to live healthy lives. In 2007, Brother Bill’s Helping Hand and Methodist Hospital established a full-service Community Health Clinic that provides high quality care at little to no cost for our neighbors. Services include annual exams, eye exams, dental care, women’s wellness, mammograms and prostate screenings, vaccinations and support for managing chronic illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension.
MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC
BBHH believes mental health is critically important to a person’s overall well-being. They partnered with The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology to establish a mental health clinic. The Center believes that with the right tools and insights, people can grow through life’s changes and challenges to live the life they were meant to live. In 2019, they had a little over 500 counseling sessions. In 2021, they served just shy of 1600 sessions and in 2022 were on track to have over 2,000 counseling sessions.
PathWays Job Training Program – Pathways is an eight-week / 120-hour program that teaches women the skills necessary to find and keep a job including computer skills, resume building, interview skills and time management. Brother Bill’s Helping Hand serves many women who are the head of their household and saw a need to help them secure work that would enable them to support their families. The Pathways program was started in 2003 and has worked with 232 neighbors since its inception. Approximately 85% of neighbors who go through the program find new jobs and/or continue their education after graduating from the program.
Brother Bills Helping hand, together, with these programs are building healthier, more connected communities, one step at a time.
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