CentroMed
Graciela A. Cigarroa is the General Counsel at El Centro del Barrio d/b/a CentroMed. Ms.Cigarroa provides in-house counsel to the Board of Directors and staff members; reviews CentroMed’s legal documents, policies and contracts; designs and implements trainings for CentroMed staff; conducts federal and state statute, regulation, and policy analysis; performs privacy officer duties overseeing the organizations privacy policies and procedures; and assists with the implementation of the corporate compliance program addressing a variety of legal issues to enable compliant and efficient operations.
Ms. Cigarroa joined CentroMed in April of 2011 from the Law Office of Graciela A. Cigarroa. She has over 25 years of legal experience with a focus for the last 15 years on nonprofit and health law. She has been published and has been a frequent speaker in the area of HIPAA privacy law.
Ms. Cigarroa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from St. Mary’s University, a Juris Doctor degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law and a Master of Laws degree in tax law from Boston University School of Law. She is a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and sits on several community boards.
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El Centro del Barrio (CDB), which began doing business as CentroMed in 2001, was founded in 1971, operating one counseling program for children and adolescents. CDB was an outgrowth of the National Institutes of Mental Health-funded and Our Lady of the Lake University-sponsored Mexican-American Mental Health Education Project, which aimed to increase the number of Mexican-American social workers providing culturally-competent mental health services in San Antonio’s Westside and Southside barrios. Faced with a loss of funding, CDB’s community advisory board opted in 1973 to incorporate as a nonprofit in order to secure the independent funding needed to continue providing services.