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Healthcare + Wellness

Be Kind Run Club
The kindest run club in town. ALL paces welcome!
🏃🏽Mondays 6:30am | 3mi
🏃🏻‍♂️Wednesdays 6:00am | 6mi
🏃🏼‍♀️Sundays 7:00am | 3mi

Osage Creek Wellness Community Sound Baths
Monthly donation-based sound baths provided by Osage Creek Wellness and hosted at Providencia Urban Retreat. Osage Creek Wellness also offers somatic therapies and Craniosacral Therapy. Reach out to inquire about services.

Behind You: A no-cost mental health program for F+B workers.
Southern Smoke Foundation provides access to no-cost counseling for food and beverage workers in Texas. Behind You is the first mental health program of its kind—for F+B, by F+B. Southern Smoke Foundation distributes grants to universities offering accredited graduate-level programs for psychology, social work, clinical mental health, or counseling. Dedicated student clinicians provide Behind You clients with up to 20 no-cost supervised counseling sessions (or up to six [6] months of counseling, whichever is reached first), guided by licensed clinical supervisor and the university program director.

SPACE FOR LOVE (SFL) is a support group for adult, women survivors of sexual trauma.
The purpose of SFL support groups is to provide a space of safe support for the ongoing healing of sexual trauma survivors. SFL support groups offer community, compassion and connection through meal share, a circle process, and resources for individual care. Resources for individual care (I.e. counseling and case management) are provided by a representative from The Advocacy Center Waco, a partnering community organization.

Waco Family Medicine
Waco Family Medicine is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)* providing health care to underserved residents of McLennan and Bell counties who have historically struggled in a health care system that favors privately-insured patients. No one is turned away for inability to pay.

Planned Parenthood Waco Clinic

Financial Aid

Southern Smoke Foundation Emergency Relief Fund
Over the years, Southern Smoke Foundation funds have been used to pay for essentials like groceries, clothing, and medications, and have covered the cost of rent, natural disaster damages, lost wages, and more. There’s no deadline for requests and no cap on the amount given.

Texas Food and Wine Alliance Culinary Grant Program
The Texas Food & Wine Alliance awards grants to selected organizations/individuals exhibiting culinary innovation that contributes to the Texas community in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Since 2012, TFWA has given $528,500 to local culinary professionals, businesses, and nonprofits.

Living Wage Calculator
MIT developed the Living Wage Calculator to help individuals, communities, employers, and others estimate the local wage rate that a full-time worker requires to cover the costs of their family’s basic needs where they live.

One Fair Wage
One Fair Wage is a national organization of nearly 300,000 restaurant and service workers, nearly 1,000 restaurant owners, and dozens of organizations nationwide all working together to end all subminimum wages in the United States and raise wages and working conditions in the service sector in particular.

Education + Programming

James Beard Foundation Virtual Education
The James Beard Foundation hosts webinars and conversations to help provide resources for the hospitality industry and to better stay connected. At this link, you’ll find a library of these resources categorized by subject matter.

Texas Restaurant Association
Whether it's navigating the ever-changing regulations, offering cutting-edge training and certification products, or empowering members with practical business solutions, TRA is an indispensable resource for the foodservice industry.

Not 9 to 5 (list of resources they’ve collected)
Not 9 to 5 is a non-profit global leader in mental health training and advocacy for the foodservice and hospitality sector. They do this by empowering industry professionals with practical education and tools to create meaningful community change.

Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Restaurant Manager Resource Packet
Created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the resources and much of the information is still relevant, accurate, and helpful today.