The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress and signed into law to provide economic relief from COVID-19.

Texas Southmost College alumnus Cesar Cepeda followed his father’s footsteps to become a first responder. The 2015 TSC Emergency Medical Science graduate is a pump operator and paramedic with the City of Brownsville Fire Department.

On the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, Texas Southmost College alumnus Cesar Cepeda finds himself in the fight against a pandemic while still doing a job he loves.

Texas Southmost College Early Child Care staff prepared and distributed instructional backpacks filled with activities for each child to take home in mid-March.

Texas Southmost College has taken every precaution necessary to ensure the safety of its students, faculty and staff during the global COVID-19 pandemic, including its youngest population.

Texas Southmost College alumnus Raul Silva is helping COVID-19 patients in New York City. He's currently working at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, a post-COVID-19 center where patients go for rehabilitation after being removed from a ventilator and released from the hospital.

Raul Silva is a Texas Southmost College Registered Nursing alumnus who has dedicated his career to helping others, and for the past month has been at the COVID-19 epicenter in New York.