Founded in 1992, the Tejano Center for Community Concerns (TCCC) is dedicated to improving opportunities for Hispanics through the provision of educational, social, housing, and economic development initiatives. TCCC operates youth violence prevention programs, ABC/ESL classes, drug abuse and AIDS prevention programs, gang intervention and prevention programs, and the Raul Yzaguirre Charter School for Success. TCCC is also developing a foster care group home and shelter, organizing, resident and homeowner groups, and beginning a homeownership program for low-income families within the Denver Harbor and Port Houston neighborhoods of Houston.

AmeriCorps members will help TCCC increase services in literacy and education programs offered by the center. Members will serve as teacher aides, tutors, adult education instructors, community outreach service providers, and family literacy instructors.

In response to Hurricane Katrina, AmeriCorps members will provide direct support to 100-300 Latino and other minority evacuee households which are facing cultural, linguistic, or residency issues in obtaining emergency housing assistance. Members will help facilitate access to temporary or permanent housing facilities and feature all essential services that will provide evacuee households with the option of resettling in the Houston area.