The Tejano Center for Community Concerns (TCCC) was established in 1992. Our permanent campus location is on 7.5 acres at 2950 Broadway, in the Park Place neighborhood, Houston, Texas. TCCC has three major program components: a 2-campus charter school (Houston and Brownsville), a housing program initiative Project New Hope, and a Child Placing Agency which includes a 32-bed emergency shelter- El Hogar de Niños, and foster homes in the community.
Raul
Yzaguirre School for Success- Houston (RYSS) is now in its’ seventh year
as astate-approved PreK-12th grade charter school. In 2001, the Texas State Board of Education approved a ten-year school continuation contract. In 2002, a 200-student, Pre-K-3rd grade extension campus was established in Brownsville, Texas. RYSS-Houston has an adult education program that offers ESL/GED courses in English/Spanish; and, distance-learning, self-directed, online office applications in Spanish sponsored by the TEC de Monterrey University in Monterrey, Mexico, as well as Houston Community College, a project partner. TEC de Monterrey University is a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), an accrediting agency for colleges and universities in the United States.
The Project New Hope initiative
provides homeownership counseling, education, and down-payment assistance for
low-income and first-time homebuyers, as well as, new home construction for
qualified buyers. To-date 20 affordable single-family homes have been built.
Project New Hope was recently awarded HUD funding for development of a
66-unit senior citizen housing project to be located on the agency’s 7.5 acre
campus; construction will be completed this Fall 2003.
El Hogar de Ninos (child
shelter) provides 24-hour emergency care for abused, neglected, and homeless
children, and academic instruction from Houston Independent School District
faculty. The shelter serves more
than 350 children annually.TCCC’s has one-story permanent building houses the Primary Academy of RYSS and its administrative offices with a second two-story permanent building containing a full gymnasium and the Junior Academy. The two permanent buildings total 60,000 sq. ft. with an additional six portable buildings adding another 12,000 sq. ft. The portable buildings house the Senior Academy, ROTC facilities, several Junior Academy faculty members, a science lab, and the TCCC accounting department.