Elizahbet Avila

SOCIAL SERVICES MANAGER

Elizahbet Avila joined the BBBHH team in March 2022 and she currently serves as the Social Services Manager. In her role, Elizahbet provides community services, resources, and ongoing evaluation and assessment of neighbors’ needs and goals to set them up for success. Additionally, she creates partnership connections by networking, attending outreach events, and by researching other organizations and the services they provide. 

Prior to working at BBHH, Elizahbet spent 18 years in the pharmacy field in community, specialty, and non-sterile compounding. She currently holds her RPhT license active with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. In August of 2022, Elizahbet obtained a Community Health Worker certification through Texas AHEC East DFW Region. She currently is looking to further her education by completing her degree as well as a Spanish Interpreting Certification Program.  She says, “As a former high-school dropout, I believe in seizing all opportunities possible to help change our generational poverty by continuous education and learning."

Born in Tamaulipas, Mexico, Elizahbet arrived in West Dallas when she was just three years old. She currently lives in South Dallas but hopes to move back to West Dallas soon as her father still lives here and it is the one place she believes will always be home to her. One fun fact is that Elizahbet worked at the Carnival Food Store on the corner of Hampton & Singleton in West Dallas for 11 years!  

  Elizahbet believes that God started preparing her for working at BBHH in 2014 when she was first volunteering here. In 2021, she learned about our Pathways Empowerment & Job Training Discipleship Program. At that time, Elizahbet had a heartbreaking miscarriage that led her to leave her profession of many years and she did not know what direction her life was heading. She signed up for the Pathways program feeling lost, broken and severely depressed. But God was all in the details! Elizahbet quickly learned that this was the time and place where she was called to be. When Elizahbet reflects on this journey, she often thinks of Mahatma Ghandi’s quote: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” 

 Outside of work, Elizahbet enjoys spending time with her husband Alberto & their family. In her free time, she loves traveling, camping, antiquing, photography and attending concerts. Her favorite book is It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn