Historia de ECHOS

Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services (ECHOS) mission is to serve people in need by providing access to the health and social service resources that can improve their lives.

Nuestra visión es una comunidad en la que todas las personas puedan tener acceso a los recursos necesarios para construir una vida sana y productiva.

En 2001, en respuesta al dramático cambio en la demografía del suroeste de Houston, los feligreses de la Iglesia Episcopal de la Epifanía established Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services (ECHOS). To this day, ECHOS remains a ministry of the church and the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.

ECHOS se convirtió en una corporación sin ánimo de lucro en 2001. Las puertas se abrieron para prestar servicios sanitarios y sociales a la creciente población de inmigrantes y refugiados que vivían en los alrededores de la Iglesia.

Necesidad de nuestros servicios

Desde 2001, las familias han venido a ECHOS para acceder a servicios sanitarios y sociales.

ECHOS helps families access health care services and benefits coverage. ECHOS’ families encounter similar challenges. These include:

• • desempleo,
  • ingresos por debajo del nivel de pobreza,
  • falta de acceso a la atención de salud,
  • barreras lingüísticas,
  • limitado o ningún transporte,
  • déficit educativo o analfabetismo.

The average monthly family income of ECHOS clients is $1,335.

Números servidos

Durante el primer año completo de actividad, se informó que unos 150 hogares de clientes habían visitado el campus ECHOS por servicios. El servicio principal recibido fue la asistencia para solicitar programas de Medicaid del estado de Texas y la tarjeta de oro del Distrito Hospitalario del Condado de Harris (ahora programa de asistencia financiera de Harris Health Systems).

Since then, ECHOS has grown dramatically. In 2023, ECHOS served:

• 13,486 unduplicated individuals for application assistance, housing/utility assistance, and the food pantry
• almost 2,500 benefits applications were submitted, and
• more than 42,000 individuals (duplicated) were fed at our weekly food distributions

Asociaciones

ECHOS welcomes other agencies or healthcare providers that provide direct services for the clients that we serve, or who seek to research health care issues in a medically and socially vulnerable community.

Mobile healthcare partners include:

• Texas Children’s Hospital
• The Rose

We work closely with Baylor College of Medicine, Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries (ACAM), Houston Immigration Services Legal Collaborative (HILSC) and others. We partner with 35-plus agencies and non-profit organizations from the Houston area and across the state.

Servicios

Other forms of assistance such as domestic violence support and healthcare partnerships occur frequently. Medicaid, Harris Health FAP (Gold Card) and SNAP application assistance and follow-up remain our core service, in addition to Financial Stability, Case Management and Food-only gift cards.

Some of ECHOS’ financial services are zip code restricted (77036, 77074, 77081, 77035, 77071, 77099, 77031, 77072, 77096). If you do not live in one of these zip codes, please contact 2-1-1 for assistance.

All ECHOS services are provided free of charge and without restrictions to all who come through the doors of ECHOS, regardless of age, ethnicity, language is spoken, documentation status, or sexual orientation.